Patrick's New TV Ad

Here it is via YouTube (I have to admit, though, that I think the border "wall" in the southwest portion of this country is a stupid idea, but extra border guards isn't). More importantly, though, the ad points out Fitzpatrick's ridiculous voting record on this issue among others.



Also, here is an Inquirer analysis of another sleazy Fitzpatrick campaign ad referred to in the YouTube video (the Inquirer text appears below).

Campaign 2006: Adwatch
The advertiser: Fitzpatrick for Congress.

The race: U.S. Rep. Mike Fitzpatrick (R., Pa.) vs. Democrat Patrick Murphy for the Eighth Congressional District seat.

The ad: "Everything."

Images and words: A still photograph of Murphy appears on the screen as an announcer says: "Patrick Murphy said he was raised in the district. The Courier Times says he wasn't. Murphy says he prosecuted New York's toughest criminals. Court records prove he never did. When asked where our kids went to school, Murphy called it 'trivial.' Patrick Murphy lied about who he is, exaggerated what he did, indifferent to who we are. He's everything that's wrong with Congress."

Analysis: Before the primary, in an April 19, 2006, editorial, Bucks County Courier Times quoted Murphy as saying, "I was raised for 20 years in this district." Murphy was raised in Northeast Philadelphia, near but not in the current Eighth District.

Murphy's campaign literature says he "prosecuted some of the toughest criminals in New York, North Carolina and even Baghdad." As an Army lawyer, he prosecuted felony cases in court-martial proceedings, a claim he backed with a letter from a superior at West Point.

He also was appointed a special assistant U.S. Attorney in New York's Southern District. His campaign provided a list of 15 case names he handled in that post, but no case file numbers. The Inquirer could confirm one misdemeanor case in federal court.

At a debate in Upper Bucks County on Oct. 12, Fitzpatrick asked Murphy if he knew how many school districts were in Bucks County. Murphy later told a reporter from the Morning Call in Allentown, "I didn't know this was a game of Trivial Pursuit."

Fitzpatrick's ad takes the word "trivial" out of context.

Fitzpatrick's entire campaign is "out of context"!

And by the way, you can access a copy of Patrick's appointment letter regarding his employment as a federal prosecutor in New York here.

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