Producer: Dixon-Davis Media Group
Running Time: 00:30
Debut Date: 05/04/2008
Ad Buy: statewide in Oregon
Cost: not available
Summary: Merkley responds to an attack ad from Gordon Smith, accusing Smith of being influenced by special interests.
Script of "Kidding" (TV)
ANNOUNCER [v/o]: Gordon Smith. Who is he kidding? Smith falsely attacks Jeff Merkley's fundraising, when Merkley enacted the toughest ethics reforms in Oregon's history.
It's Gordon Smith who's taken a quarter of a million dollars from Big Oil and voted to give them billions in special tax breaks.
(Text on screen: Center for Responsive Politics, accessed 5/2/08; Senate vote #118, 5/11/06; Washington Post, 4/26/06)
Smith's taken over $200,000 from the pharmaceutical industry and voted against letting government negotiate lower prescription drug prices.
(Text on screen: Center for Responsive Politics, accessed 5/2/08; Senate vote #60, 3/17/05)
It's no joke. Gordon Smith's just another special-interest senator.
JEFF MERKLEY [v/o]: I'm Jeff Merkley, and I approve this message.
(Text on screen: Paid For By Jeff Merkley For Oregon)
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