Producer: not available
Running Time: 00:30
Debut Date: 04/30/2008
Ad Buy: statewide in Kentucky
Cost: not available
Summary: Lunsford responds to an attack ad from Greg Fischer, defending his record as CEO of Vencor.
Script of "Truth" (TV)
(Text on screen: April 29, 2008; The Paducah Sun: “Mud: Fischer launches unfair attacks against Lunsford”)
ANNOUNCER [v/o]: Greg Fischer’s “unfair and inaccurate” attack on Bruce Lunsford is “wrong and wrong again.”
(Text on screen: The Courier-Journal -- April 26, 2008)
And Fischer’s misleading ad is voiced by an actress pretending to be a victim.
Bruce Lunsford protected patients and jobs.
(Text on screen: Source: Business First-Louisville, 5/4/98; “Medicare cuts to make hospitals bleed more” -- The Denver Post, 10/13/99; “Hospitals feel the pinch from Medicare cuts” -- The Miami Herald, 5/30/99; Vencor “one of the greatest successes in the history of business in Kentucky” -- Kentucky Roll Call, 5/15/07)
When Congress cut Medicare, many health care companies folded. But Lunsford’s company survived and today employs over 50,000 people.
BRUCE LUNSFORD: I’m Bruce Lunsford, and I approve this message because misleading attacks won’t change Washington. Only working together will.
(Text on screen: Bruce Lunsford; U.S. Senate; Bruce2008.com; Paid For By Friends Of Bruce Lunsford)
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