Outdoorsy fly fisherwuss, Hispanic Portuguese deli owners, blue collar lawyers: the Democrats pull out the stops
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Yesterday we profiled Senator Micahel bennet (D. Co), dressed in virginal waders and toting a one-day fishing license while pretending to catch a fish. but because it’s election season, the hits keep coming. Free Beacon has the receipts:
A new Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee ad aimed at wooing Latinos says Democrats "strengthened Arizona by investing in small businesses." The business to which the ad subsequently cuts is almost certainly not in Arizona, or even America—its prices are listed in euros.
The DCCC released the ad Monday as part of a "six-figure digital advertising campaign to reach Latino voters," the group said in a press release. During the spot, a narrator says Democrats supported Arizona entrepreneurs by investing in local businesses. But the restaurant to which the ad cuts is by no means local—its menu lists an array of overpriced options in euros. A goat cheese platter, for example, will set customers back 11 euros, while an avocado option costs 10.50 euros. Should an Arizonan want to visit the eatery, however, the cost would be much higher. The cheapest flight from Phoenix to the European Union is $750, according to online travel agency Kayak.
The blue-collar mechanic in a New Hampshire Democrat's latest campaign ad is actually a lawyer and local Democratic Party chairman.
The ad, which Rep. Chris Pappas's (D., N.H.) campaign released Tuesday, shows the Democrat talking to a mechanic at a repair shop—but the "mechanic," according to the New Hampshire Journal, is an attorney at a Concord law office and the chairman of the Manchester Democrats. The attorney, Alan Raff, has also served as president of the Manchester Young Democrats and worked as a Democratic staffer in the state Senate and for U.S. senator Jeanne Shaheen (D., N.H.).
"Running a small business is hard work," narrates Pappas, whose family founded the popular Puritan Backroom restaurant in Manchester in 1917, over a clip of Raff lifting a garage door at an auto repair shop. "There are early mornings and late nights."
New Hampshire GOP spokesman Andrew Mahaleris said Pappas, whose net worth is $5 million, is out of touch with the working class.
"Born in the lap of luxury to wealthy parents, Chris Pappas has never worked a day in his life and doesn't understand the struggle of working-class Granite Staters,"