The Iowans in the Reynolds Younkers attack ad are GOP activists

[47of74]

Yeah Kimmy can't even find real Iowans to shill for her

Reynolds’ campaign has had months to prepare their negative attacks on Hubbell. Even with the Democratic primary, there were plenty of signs that Hubbell was going to be victorious (and you prepare for everyone regardless). And given all the messaging they’ve already done on the Younkers closures (from billboards to this TV ad to their “Fired By Fred” website), it’s clear they think this is one of their best lines of attack.

So, with all of that lead time to get their first negative ad ready, they still couldn’t find a single person who wasn’t a Republican Party leader that was actually impacted by the local Younkers shutting down 30 years ago? Kevin Brown and his wife are in their 20s and 30s. Given their graduation dates from high school, Tara was likely one or two years old when the Younkers in Spencer closed in 1990. Kevin was likely four or five. And they both grew up one county over in O’Brien County, anyway.

It’s very easy for a campaign to just skim through the county party leadership lists to recruit a couple local Iowans for ads. Maybe viewers won’t notice any difference, but certainly it would be a more effective ad if you found someone who was actually laid off all those years ago. To do that, however, your campaign has to have extensive, natural contacts throughout the state that go deeper than just party leadership. This seems to suggest that the Reynolds campaign, which has had significant staff turnover, may not have that.

It also indicates that perhaps these closures weren’t quite as impactful as Reynolds is spinning them to be if there aren’t people coming out of the woodwork to talk about their experience.

[Wellstone ruled]

1. Most of these Polical Ads done by the Rethugs

are carry-fully scripted and Staged Crafted for max effect. As you said,GOP operatives. This is big business and there is no end to the Actors or Extras to fill these roles.

[rsdsharp]

2. I'm not surprised

although I thought they were paid actors. It's also not lost on me that the ad appeared just after Branstad came back to Iowa for Bob Ray's funeral. It certainly has a Branstad feel to it.

That said, I just don't get Hubbell's latest ad. I'm not sure why his being a victim of the Syrian airplane highjacking should have an impact on the election for Iowa governor one way or the other.

[rurallib]

3. rob from the poor and give to the rich is a hell of a platform to run on

Last edited Wed Jul 25, 2018, 12:39 PM - Edit history (1)

so they got to make things up like repugs everywhere.

ETA - finally getting around to reading the whole article. The comment by the spokesperson for the Hubbell campaign is quite a rebuke of the Reynolds assertions:

“Unsurprisingly, without a positive record or vision to run on and a lackluster general election start, the extremely vulnerable Kim Reynolds has to resort to cherry picking and grossly distorting facts against Fred Hubbell from over 30 years ago,” said communications director Remi Yamamoto in a press release.

The Hubbell campaign points out that Younkers actually vastly expanded their workforce during Hubbell’s leadership, growing it from 3,000 to 4,100 positions from 1986 to 1989. They also noted that he allowed for extra overtime and days off for workers, created Farm Aid scholarships for students during the Farm Crisis and that the store had high customer satisfaction overall."

I hope somebody calls her on this during a debate. Lying politicians need to be humiliated in public.