Channel 5: Negative Cubin ad doesn't check out
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Oct 2, 2006 Posted by Bill Luckett
The recent negative ad from Barbara Cubin's campaign doesn't square with reality, according to this report from Cheyenne's NewsChannel 5. The TV station did some quality research last week and concluded that the negative Cubin ad "doesn't check out." Her ad draws from a Casper Star-Tribune article that mischaracterizes Gary Trauner's position on the Bush tax cuts and military spending. This is, sadly, not a new practice for the Cubin campaign. In her first race for Congress in 1994, the campaign ran a television ad accusing her opponent, an attorney, of having once represented a certain notorious character. When her opponent denied that he had represented the notorious character, AND the notorious character's real attorney affirmatively stated that Cubin's opponent had nothing to do with the case, the Cubin campaign said they stood by the ad, although it had been proven conclusively that it was false. If Cubin intends to run her campaign that way again this year, we must make sure we do everything we can to get the word out to the media and to our neighbors about what the truth is. Wyoming's people will not stand up for a candidate who misleads people about her opponent or her opponent's positions. We all know we deserve better than that.