{"id":1098,"date":"2009-10-01T13:45:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-01T17:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2009\/10\/01\/club-for-growths-cookie-cutter-hoffman-ad\/"},"modified":"2009-10-01T13:45:00","modified_gmt":"2009-10-01T17:45:00","slug":"club-for-growths-cookie-cutter-hoffman-ad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2009\/10\/01\/club-for-growths-cookie-cutter-hoffman-ad\/","title":{"rendered":"Club For Growth&#8217;s cookie-cutter Hoffman ad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Good news today for 23rd district Conservative party candidate Douglas Hoffman.  The DC-based political action committee, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.clubforgrowth.org\/\">Club For Growth<\/a>, is spending $250,000 on a radio and TV ad on Hoffman&#8217;s behalf.<\/p>\n<p>A couple curious things, though.<\/p>\n<p>The TV ad doesn&#8217;t even mention Hoffman or his party.  It just takes swipes at Republican Dede Scozzafava and Democrat Bill Owens, associating them with, respectively, David Paterson and Nancy Pelosi.  That seems like a strange move when <a href=\"http:\/\/www.siena.edu\/uploadedfiles\/home\/Parents_and_Community\/Community_Page\/SRI\/SNY_Poll\/SNY0909%20CD23.pdf\">today&#8217;s Siena College poll found 71% of respondents<\/a> have no opinion on Hoffman or don&#8217;t know him.<\/p>\n<p>Even more eyebrow raising is something <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/blogs\/scorecard\/1009\/Cookiecutter_Club_for_Growth_ad.html?showall\">Politico<\/a> noticed (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.watertowndailytimes.com\/section\/blogs09\">hat tip, Jude Seymour<\/a>).  The TV ad is virtually identical to one Club For Growth used in a Maryland congressional race last year.  Different names, but almost the same exact script.<\/p>\n<p>Check &#8217;em out for yourself.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/vE52aVzSBbE&amp;color1=0xb1b1b1&amp;color2=0xcfcfcf&amp;hl=en&amp;feature=player_embedded&amp;fs=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/vE52aVzSBbE&amp;color1=0xb1b1b1&amp;color2=0xcfcfcf&amp;hl=en&amp;feature=player_embedded&amp;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/PrCL9loKL9E&amp;color1=0xb1b1b1&amp;color2=0xcfcfcf&amp;hl=en&amp;feature=player_embedded&amp;fs=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/PrCL9loKL9E&amp;color1=0xb1b1b1&amp;color2=0xcfcfcf&amp;hl=en&amp;feature=player_embedded&amp;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good news today for 23rd district Conservative party candidate Douglas Hoffman. The DC-based political action [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[874],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1098"}],"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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1098"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1098\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}