{"id":576150,"date":"2010-05-23T12:53:43","date_gmt":"2010-05-23T16:53:43","guid":{"rendered":"tag:blogs.courant.com,2010:\/capitol_watch\/\/9.78564"},"modified":"2010-05-23T21:14:45","modified_gmt":"2010-05-24T01:14:45","slug":"scully-where-are-the-african-americans-and-latinos-in-linda-mcmahons-ad-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/576150","title":{"rendered":"Scully: Where are the African Americans and Latinos in Linda McMahon’s ad campaign?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fresh off Corey Brinson’s observations<\/a> about the lack of diversity on the Republican ticket comes Patrick Scully’s criticism that Linda McMahon’s campaign ads and brochures look awfully white.<\/p>\n

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“One would think that having access to the best professional campaign people would mean all voting demographics would be covered. They’re not,” writes Scully, a Democratic operative who runs a consulting firm, in his blog, The Hanging Shad<\/a>.<\/span><\/div>\n

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“McMahon should have to answer for spending millions to appeal to the country club set to the detriment of diversity,” Scully writes. “According to the Census Bureau’s latest numbers, racial minorities comprised nearly 28% of Connecticut’s population. McMahon’s campaign imagery is nowhere near reflective of the state she wants to represent in the US Senate.”<\/span><\/div>\n

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Scully’s criticism comes a few days after another prominent Democrat, Jonathan Pelto, sent around a YouTube clip <\/a>in which McMahon’s husband, wrestling impresario Vince McMahon, appears to uttering the n-word.<\/span><\/font><\/div>\n

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What does the McMahon campaign think of this new line of attack? Is it just a way to divert attention from Democrat Richard Blumenthal’s Vietnam War misrepresentations? I have an email out to McMahon spokesman Ed Patru seeking comment.<\/span><\/font><\/div>\n

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Fresh off Corey Brinson’s observations about the lack of diversity on the Republican ticket comes Patrick Scully’s criticism that Linda McMahon’s campaign ads and brochures look awfully white. “One would think that having access to the best professional campaign people would mean all voting demographics would be covered. They’re not,” writes Scully, a Democratic operative […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4000,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-576150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576150","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\/4000"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=576150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576150\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=576150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=576150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=576150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}