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Kanjorski’s first ad hits Barletta as ‘failed mayor’
Congressman Paul Kanjorski (D-11) has taken his reelection bid to local TV screens in northeast Pennsylvania, using his campaign’s first 30-second spot to pointedly attack Republican challenger Lou Barletta’s legacy as mayor of Hazleton.
Kanjorski’s started airing the ad late last week, and his campaign said media buys of both cable and broadcast would continue through Election Day. Reflecting the bitter rivalry between the two candidates and the reality that Kanjorski faces a daunting anti-incumbent, anti-Democratic climate, the ad focuses squarely and entirely on Barletta.
The ad criticizes income and property tax hikes that were enacted in the city’s most recent budget. It also noted that Hazleton recently had the highest unemployment rate in the state, although that number of 15.6 percent is not seasonally adjusted. The ad charges that Barletta’s city is the “worst run in the state.”
Kanjorski’s campaign has already made Hazleton a focal point of its argument against Barletta. Kanjorski has dispatched Barletta twice before, in 2002 and again more narrowly in 2008. Barletta began his advertising campaign earlier this summer.
See the ad below.
August 30, 2010 at 1:49 pm
Tags: Lou Barletta, PA-11, Paul Kanjorski
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TB
Aug 30th, 2010
Slash and burn politics. Take him down hard this time Kanjo so that he loses his will to get back up.
UH OH
Aug 30th, 2010
You know Kanjo is in trouble when his first ad is an attack ad.
sick of it all
Aug 30th, 2010
Kanjo is right…lots of tax dollars spent there under Lou’s watch…nothing to show…Lou a poor steward of tp $.
TB
Aug 31st, 2010
@ UH OH Every ad from both of these campaigns will be an attack ad. Very bad blood exists between these two men. I don’t blame either one of them.
Although I support Kanjo, one thing that surprises me about him is that he still takes attacks from the other side personally. He doesn’t realize that its part of the game. You would think after so many years on the Hill he would take it as part of the job description and forget about it at the end of the day.
Mark L.
Aug 31st, 2010
Every ad will be an attack? The Mayor’s first ad was a positive piece about Barletta and actually called out Kanjo’s attack ads coming…nothing negative about that.
Maybe you should rephrase that every ad from the Kanjo camp will be negative. He must be way down in polls since he can’t even do a split positive/negative piece…to make your first ad 100% negative shows desperation by a Washington insider.
And Kanjo is a great steward of taxpayer $$$….for his family, Wall Street, the Big 3, Washington, special interests and lobbyists.
Barletta keeps it positive in his first piece –
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9x2glOlrScY
SMH
Sep 5th, 2010
It will be a lot easier to keep an eye on new blood in Washington (Barletta), than will be to teach that old dog (Kanjorski) new tricks.