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Texas-Size Mudballs in GOP Senate Runoff

Posted on July 27, 2012

A bitter GOP primary contest in Texas for a U.S. Senate seat has come to this: an ad featuring a grieving mother who links one of the candidates to her son’s suicide. A Texas super PAC is airing a TV ad that features a distraught mother who says Ted Cruz, …
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PA Congressman Resorts to Smear Campaign

Posted on April 20, 2012

Rep. Tim Holden falsely claimed in a recent TV ad that his opponent won a multimillion-dollar lawsuit in exchange for campaign contributions to a corrupt judge. In fact, a jury — not the judge – awarded $3 million to lawyer Matt Cartwright’s client in that case. The Holden campaign told us …
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