Steelman Hits Brunner in New Ad

By Julie Sobel  //  July 9, 2012 | 4:38 p.m.

Missouri Senate candidate Sarah Steelman wasn't happy with her Republican primary opponent, John Brunner, for running a negative television advertisement in June. But now Steelman has released a new commercial attacking Brunner.

The first half of Steelman's 30-second spot is devoted to criticizing Brunner, while the second half focuses on her own conservative credentials.

After noting that Brunner lives in St. Louis, the ad's announcer hits the businessman on a donation his family's Brunner Foundation made a few years back to the Humane Farming Association, an animal rights group.

"Brunner gave $10,000 to an extreme animal rights groups that was founded to give farm animals rights," says the narrator as a picture of a cow appears. "They worry about her feelings. What's next? Therapy?"

Brunner has defended the donation by saying that one of his children made the decision to donate to that particular charity. The candidate has been courting the rural vote, and has racked up endorsements from groups including the Missouri Pork Association the John Deere PAC, and the Missouri Soybean Association. The ad then pivots to Steelman, who says that she "led the fight to ban partial-birth abortion" in Missouri, "wrote the sanctity of marriage amendment," and concludes, "I love to hunt." While Brunner has dominated the airwaves, this is just Steelman's second television spot. The two and Rep. Todd Akin, R-Mo., will face off in an August 7 GOP primary.

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