{"id":104,"date":"2008-09-30T07:36:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-30T11:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2008\/09\/30\/renzi-attacks-aubertine-with-help-of-controversial-ad-man\/"},"modified":"2008-09-30T07:36:00","modified_gmt":"2008-09-30T11:36:00","slug":"renzi-attacks-aubertine-with-help-of-controversial-ad-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2008\/09\/30\/renzi-attacks-aubertine-with-help-of-controversial-ad-man\/","title":{"rendered":"Renzi attacks Aubertine with help of controversial ad man"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Albany Times-Union is reporting this morning that Republican challenger David Renzi is going negative in a new TV ad aimed at Democratic incumbent, state Senator Darrel Aubertine.<\/p>\n<p>What makes this blog-worthy is that Renzi &#8212; and New York&#8217;s GOP generally &#8212; is making use of the talents of Scott Howell.<\/p>\n<p>Howell is the political advertising guru who created the controversial and racially charged ad that helped defeat Tennessee Senate candidate Harold Ford, a Democrat and an African American.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a link to Renzi&#8217;s new ad, which features a chorus of children &#8220;thanking&#8221; Aubertine for his votes. <br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=KRCDXFSYVv8\"><br \/>http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=KRCDXFSYVv8<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Note the bit where the ad suggests that Aubertine has favored New York City over his own district?<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve blogged about that small town-vs.-the-big-city Republican strategy in an earlier post.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Albany Times-Union is reporting this morning that Republican challenger David Renzi is going negative [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}