{"id":393399,"date":"2010-03-05T13:30:05","date_gmt":"2010-03-05T18:30:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/firedoglake.com\/?p=70938"},"modified":"2010-03-05T13:30:05","modified_gmt":"2010-03-05T18:30:05","slug":"blanche-lincoln-responds-to-ad-criticism-by-lashing-out-at-labor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/393399","title":{"rendered":"Blanche Lincoln Responds to Ad Criticism by Lashing Out at Labor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-70947\" href=\"http:\/\/firedoglake.com\/2010\/03\/05\/blanche-lincoln-responds-to-ad-criticism-by-lashing-out-at-labor\/afl-cio\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-70947\" title=\"AFL-CIO\" src=\"http:\/\/static1.firedoglake.com\/1\/files\/2010\/03\/AFL-CIO-300x298.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"201\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a>Bill Halter&#8217;s campaign points out that Blanche Lincoln&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/firedoglake.com\/2010\/03\/04\/blanche-lincolns-genius-pitch-to-arkansas-democrats-i-opposed-the-public-option-also-democrats-suck\/\">remarkably bad new spot<\/a> &#8212; in which she rails against &#8220;money for Wall Street&#8221; &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/arkansasmatters.com\/content\/news\/fulltext?cid=297002\">is misleading, to say the least.<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div class='wbq'>\n<p><strong>In fact Senator Lincoln voted to fund a massive, no-strings-attached bailout for Wall Street on October 1, 2008 when she voted for H.R. 1424, the Troubled Asset Relief Fund, also known as TARP, Halter said in the statement.<br \/>\n<\/strong><br \/>\n\u201c<strong>Senator Lincoln has received over a million dollars from the exact special interests she claims to be saying no to. Taking their money and claiming to fight for average Arkansans just doesn\u2019t wash. <\/strong>That is not how Lieutenant Governor Halter does business,\u201d said Halter spokesperson Bud Jackson.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>So Blanche responds like she always does. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.swtimes.com\/articles\/2010\/03\/05\/news\/news030510_13.txt\">She trashes the left<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div class='wbq'>\n<p>\u201cIf we want to talk about misleading advertising, we might look at Bill\u2019s first ad,\u201d Patterson said. \u201cIt puts a football in his hands and highlights his humble roots when, in fact, <strong>he\u2019s a multimillionaire who somehow talked labor unions into paying off a half-million-dollar campaign debt to himself with the union dues of their members so he can run for higher office.<\/strong>\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Uh-huh. AFL-CIO&#8217;s support of Halter has nothing whatsoever to do with the fact <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rollcall.com\/news\/33850-1.html\">that Blanche screwed them on EFCA<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.swtimes.com\/articles\/2010\/03\/04\/news\/news030410_03.txt\">screwed them on Craig Becker<\/a>. It&#8217;s all because Bill Halter &#8220;somehow&#8221; talked them into it.<\/p>\n<p>How many more traditional Democratic constituents Blanche can alienate before election day? She&#8217;s off to a great start.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.actblue.com\/page\/billhalter\">Donate to Bill Halter\u2019s campaign.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"tagList\">Tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/firedoglake.com\/tag\/bill-halter\/\" rel=\"tag\">Bill Halter<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/firedoglake.com\/tag\/blanche-lincoln\/\" rel=\"tag\">Blanche Lincoln<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/firedoglake.com\/tag\/dinos\/\" rel=\"tag\">DINOs<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/firedoglake.com\/tag\/labor\/\" rel=\"tag\">Labor<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/firedoglake.com\/tag\/senate\/\" rel=\"tag\">Senate<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"akst_link\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/firedoglake.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/share-this\/share-icon-16x16.gif\" alt=\"Share This icon\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/firedoglake.com\/?p=70938&amp;akst_action=share-this\"  title=\"Email, post to del.icio.us, etc.\" id=\"akst_link_70938\" class=\"akst_share_link\" rel=\"noindex nofollow\">&nbsp;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bill Halter&#8217;s campaign points out that Blanche Lincoln&#8217;s remarkably bad new spot &#8212; in which she rails against &#8220;money for Wall Street&#8221; &#8212; is misleading, to say the least. In fact Senator Lincoln voted to fund a massive, no-strings-attached bailout for Wall Street on October 1, 2008 when she voted for H.R. 1424, the Troubled [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5394,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-393399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5394"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=393399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393399\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=393399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=393399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=393399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}