Washington Democrats Spend Hundreds of Thousands on Attack
Ad
McSally calls for the untrue,
sexist ad to be taken off the air
Tucson - The
House Majority PAC, a Democrat Political Action Committee controlled by
Washington Democrats and former House Speaker, Nancy Pelosi, began running their
first attack ad of the Arizona 2ndCongressional District race today. Retired
Air Force Colonel, Martha McSally, reacted to the television ad by
saying:
"The ad being run by Ron Barber's Washington funders is untrue and
smacks of sexism. First Ron Barber says Republicans are 'a bunch of white guys'
and now he is using a tired, old stereotype to attack me. It's overt sexism and
the kind of negativity I've been dealing with and fought against my entire
military career. Besides, I was too busy shooting Al Qaeda with a 30 millimeter
and eating at deployed chow halls to spend too much time in the kitchen.
I will always keep our promise to seniors on Social Security and Medicare
and any attempt to allege otherwise is false and misleading. The ad is
simply outrageous and Ron Barber needs to join me in calling for this ad to be
taken off the air.
The ad, paid for by the House Majority Fund, a Washington DC based
Super PAC depicts McSally in the kitchen and talks about her "recipes" for
Congress. Long-time Southern Arizona Congressman, Jim Kolbe, also reacted to
the attack ad funded by Washington Democrats:
"At a time when the fiscal crisis facing taxpayers and our government
has never been worse it is simply wrong for Congressman Barber and his
Washington backers to be running attack ads against Martha McSally that rely on
a decades old gender stereotype of keeping women in the kitchen; Martha McSally
has spent a lifetime fighting those stereotypes. The spreading red ink of a
growing deficit that the next Congress will have to confront requires thoughtful
ideas and serious discussion--not scare tactics or cheap shots that have no
basis in fact. Congressman Barber should demand that the Democrat leadership in
Congress take these ads off the air."
Martha McSally is the first female fighter pilot to fly in combat,
and first to command a fighter squadron in combat in United States history. In
2001-2002, Martha McSally earned national recognition for successfully
overturning a military policy requiring all U.S. servicewomen to wear
Muslim clothing when off base in Saudi Arabia.
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