PORTLAND (AP) — A Portland television station has agreed to stop running a political ad attacking U.S. Rep. Chellie Pingree in her re-election campaign.
WCSH-TV said Thursday it pulled the ad after determining that part of it was not factual.
The ad was paid for by the Maine Republican Party and takes Pingree to task for her travels on a private jet while stating that her fiance, hedge fund manager S. Donald Sussman, received $200 million in federal Wall Street bailout money.
The Pingree campaign asked that the ad be pulled because it was false and misleading. Campaign officials said the jet is not owned by Pingree and that Sussman never received any bailout money.
Pingree is running against Republican businessman Dean Scontras to represent Maine's 1st Congressional District.
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No guts, no glory....its all
No guts, no glory....its all about revenue to these stations..I hope Scontras tells them to pound sand when they come looking for advertising dollars and for interviews...
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Bias even by SJ standards.
Read the truth here.
http://www.pressherald.com/news/wcsh-pulls-ad-over-inaccuracy-of-jet-own...
Interesting how they pick and choose paragraphs.
Sussman didn't get Tarp fund, lol AIG got Tarp funds and then used it to pay $200 million to Sussman. Without Pingree's vote AIG would not have had the money to pay Sussman.
I am so thankful I live in the second district. What a disgrace.
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Say it ain't so! The Maine Republiclown Party lied? Isn't that like saying the sun comes up in the morning?
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