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Wednesday, Noem Decries Personal Attacks; Thursday, She Authorizes and Pays for False Negative Attack on Stephanie’s Family
(October 28, 2010) – Less than 24 hours after saying her campaign won’t engage in negative personal attacks, Kristi Noem is doing just that, filling South Dakota television screens with a false attack on Stephanie Herseth Sandlin’s family.
“Unleashing a false negative attack the weekend before Election Day is straight out of the desperation political playbook,” said Betsy Hart, Deputy Campaign Manager for Stephanie Herseth Sandlin. “Kristi Noem has only been a politician for four years, but she’s a quick learner when it comes to making false negative attacks to try to further her own political ambitions. While Stephanie is fighting to change Washington, Kristi Noem’s recklessness and lies make it pretty clear she’d fit right in.”
Under even basic scrutiny, Noem’s attacks on Herseth Sandlin’s family fall flat. Her ad attacks Herseth Sandlin for cosponsoring two bills that are good for South Dakota. The first is strongly supported by the South Dakota Broadcasters Association, and the second helps protect the Second Amendment rights of South Dakotans. Both pieces of legislation are also cosponsored by Senator John Thune.
Hart added, “Noem is attempting to smear Stephanie with even more lies in order to change the subject from her record of arrest warrants and her support for cutting Medicare benefits. Stephanie has a proven record of putting South Dakota first and in the final days of the campaign, she will be talking to voters about her ideas to move forward in a constructive, bipartisan way to confront the challenges we face as a state and a nation.”
Kristi Noem at KELO debate, 10/27/10 (emphasis added): “I think it’s important when you have an election and we’re talking about character, and we’re talking about personal negative attacks, we need to make sure that we look at both campaigns and know that my campaign, my ads on TV, have reflected the issues that South Dakotans care about.”
“…[The Herseth Sandlin campaign] focused on negative, personal attacks, character attacks. That is something that I don’t think is what should be the main goal here.”
Kristi Noem is disgusting!
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ReplyDeleteKristi Noem has done nothing but attack Stephanie Herseth-Sandlin throughout this entire campaign. One of the reasons I really started researching was because her ads said nothing about her, so I needed to do some digging. My husband puts it in the best words his non-political mind can think of - "she just feels evil." I hope we don't have an "evil" feeling representative for the next two years!
ReplyDeleteKristi Noem is an embarrassment to South Dakota. Her record reflects what a loser she is.
ReplyDeleteHer driving record shows she doe not learn from her mistakes. Her campaigning shows she is to busy to attend to important issues which goes to show she will be too busy to attend to matters that are important to South Dakotans. Her overlooking all the court notices about her driving shows that she will repeatedly overlook things that are important to South Dakotans as well.
Kristi Noem would be a HUGE Tragedy!
ReplyDeleteYEAH for STEPHANIE!!!!