VoteVets is spending $350,000 on Robin Carnahan's behalf to air an ad about a Navy vet who was a first responder on 9/11. He's wearing an oxygen mask because of respiratory damage sustained from breathing in the caustic and toxic dust around the World Trade Center site without proper protection.
"It meant a lot to me - I had a lot of pride to go down there. I never thought being at Ground Zero I could get sick. A lot of the other first responders are as sick as me. Some have already passed away that I knew. When I heard that Congressman Blunt voted for a pay raise for himself, but did not vote for the 9/11 First Responders Bill, it made me sick to my stomach. Blunt voted against First Responders. He doesn't breathe the same air I breathe."
It's not like the attack ads Robin's been running don't show what a scurrilous human being Roy Blunt is, but lots of voters pay the most attention to people talking about personal experience. If this ad brought in another voter for every five dollars VoteVets is spending, it could make the difference in this tight race.
The amount of damage a sumo wrestler inflicts by sitting on someone's chest depends on whether he lowers his whole weight. And then bounces a few times. When VoteVets sat down on Roy Blunt's chest last month with a $600,000 TV ad buy, they bounced a couple of times. After pointing out that the Christmas bomber was on that plane because of our oil addiction, the veteran narrating the ad mentioned Blunt's vote against clean energy legislation. One bounce. It talked about the thousands he's taken in campaign contributions from big oil. Another bounce. Oof.
Now VoteVets is unhappy with Claire for signing that letter "seeking to stop EPA regulation of CO2 emissions from 'stationary sources' (e.g. coal-burning utilities and factories)." They've just put out another ad.
They're not going after Claire like they went after Roy. The ad mainly makes their case that getting off of oil is a national security issue. Oh yeah, it makes that case vividly. Then it mildly urges McCaskill to lead on this issue. Picture the sumo wrestler straddling her torso. He isn't sitting down yet. Or bouncing. But he could.
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