Lunsford ad says 'Washington's changed' McConnell

Even though Democrat Bruce Lunsford is competing against six other Democrats in the May 20 primary election, his second ad of the campaign tries to draw a contrast with Republican Mitch McConnell.

The spot, titled "Real World," features Lunsford talking to the camera about his background, specifically mentioning how he helped pay for college laying blacktop, served in the National Guard and the Army Reserves and "helped grow a small business from three employees to 62,000."

"That's real world experience," he says. "Mitch McConnell's been in the Senate 24 years. Washington's changed him and things are getting worse."

Lunsford then concludes with a familiar mantra in Kentucky politics: "After 24 years, it's time for a change."

Former Republican Gov. Ernie Fletcher used the "time for a change" line constantly during his successful 2003 run for governor. That's probably not the comparison Lunsford wants, however, considering he is still trying to distance himself from Fletcher and make amends with Democrats after Lunsford dropped out of the Democratic primary for governor against Ben Chandler that year only to back Fletcher over Chandler, the Democratic nominee.

McConnell, who has GOP primary opposition from a candidate running a limited campaign, also has re-started his ad campaign in the last week, which highlight's his work on behalf of employees at the Paducah gaseous diffusion plant.

Here's the spot:

- Ryan Alessi

Comments

[Will]

"It's time for a change." What is this, the Newberry for Mayor campaign all over again?

[Jim Pence]

http://www.hillbillyreport.com/blog/2008/04/greg-fischer-in.html

[Sloth]

Oh for the days of of real journalism when a story on a political ad was only written to assess the truth and accuracy of the message. This article is about a TV ad - but FAILS to provide the reader with any more useful information than the actual TV ad. Ryan Alessi should be ashamed for such slothiness. For example, he could have made the following observations that might have actually made this article worthy of the space it occupies:

Lunsford's ad touts he was a member fo the National Guard. But Lunsford has refused to publicly express his support new GI Bill of Rights for the 21 Century, legislation sponsored by U.S. Senator Jim Webb.

Lunsford brags about taking a business from three people to 62,000: yet Alessi fails to mention Lunsford's history of unethical and shady business practices. In this instance, it was Lunsofrd who drove the business into bankruptcy,costing thousands of people their jobs and thousands more their retirement savings.

If Alessi is going to be such a tool for Lunsford, he might as well go work over at PageOne with Jacob Pane - Bruce Lunsford's former employee who now serves as his chief apologist and defender.

This article is a shameful waste of Mr. Alessi's talent.

[Joey Wilson]

I don't believe Alessi intended this story to be a full-out critique of Lunford's ad. Lord knows McConnell and crew will critique Lunsford completely over the coming months. I think the Lunsford ad is good and I'm glad to see him taking to the airwaves.

[Anonymous]

I can't wait to see more ads showing Bruce's real world experience like this one
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YCzUbDFVXek

[John Stamper]

Sloth,
You win the prize for most ignorant comment of the week. Anybody who has an inkling of knowledge about Ryan Alessi knows he is the antithesis of sloth.

[Jim Anderson Stivers]

lift from previous post:

PageOne with Jacob Pane - Bruce Lunsford's former employee . . . who now serves as his chief apologist and defender.

Sloth tell us more about this association of Lunsford and Jacob Pane. . . .

jas in frankfort..

[Beverly Naive]

I would like to address 2:17---My mother Lillian England was in Liberty Care Center in Liberty, Ky. She was treated with dignity and respect. It was always clean, the food was good, and my mom called it her home. I did not see any of these things that was stated in that video. I was an independent contractor in SNF's as my last tenure before I retired. If any of these red flags would have come up, I'm sure I would have spotted them. My question for people is--if this story is not true about Bruce, then how many more are untrue?