Democrats Raise Money For Kerry/Edwards Ads
By: Import User
Updated: January 7, 2009
Democratic activists in Arkansas are working
to raise $100,000 to take out radio ads on behalf of
John Kerry.
The Democrats, mostly from central Arkansas, are planning a
media blitz featuring home-grown personalities they believe could
be more effective than the candidate himself. The plan calls for
the ads to feature former U-S Senator Dale Bumpers, retired Army
General Wesley Clark and former Transportation Secretary Rodney
Slater. The ads are to run in the final weeks before the November
second general election.
The Democratic Party of Arkansas, and not the Kerry campaign,
will coordinate the media buy.
Late last month, the Kerry campaign scrapped plans for a five
(m) million-dollar advertising blitz beginning the first week of
October in Arkansas and other states. Kerry`s advisers concluded
Kerry wasn`t doing well enough in Arkansas and in Arizona,
Louisiana and Missouri to justify the cost.
A Republican spokesman says the in-state media effort is a
further sign that Kerry has written off Arkansas.
