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Ads Slam Democrats on Abortion
A little-known Republican group is spending $1 million this year on provocative radio advertising aimed at black and Hispanic audiences. The group, America's PAC, began running ads last month in more than two dozen congressional districts in an efforts to boost the GOP’s chance of holding on to a majority in Congress, The New York Sun reports. The most inflammatory spots focus on abortion. "Black babies are terminated at triple the rate of white babies," a female announcer in one of the ads says.
"The Democratic Party supports these abortion laws that are decimating our people, but the individual's right to life is protected in the Republican platform. Democrats say they want our vote. Why don't they want our lives?"
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In another ad, one man suggests to a friend that he might consider having his girlfriend get an abortion.
"I don't snuff my own seed," the friend replies. "Maybe you do have a reason to vote Republican," the first man says.
Another ad tries to link Democrats to David Duke, a white supremacist who served as a Republican in the Louisiana Legislature. The spot refers to Duke's trip to Syria last year, where he spoke at an anti-war rally.
"I can understand why a Ku Klux Klan cracker like David Duke makes nice with the terrorists," a male voice says. "What I want to know is why so many of the Democrat politicians I helped elect are on the same side of the Iraq war as David Duke."
Johnnie Griffin, a sociology professor at Indiana University, told the Sun: "This is so dirty, but it works. These are race ads. It's incredible." The major financial backer of America's PAC is J. Patrick Rooney, 78, who retired in 1996 as chairman of Golden Rule Insurance. A company reportedly tied to Rooney gave $900,000 to America's PAC earlier this year, according to a report filed with the Internal Revenue Service.
"The main thing that America's PAC is up to is it basically is challenging the thesis or the belief on the part of the Republican Party that they cannot attract the black vote," Herman Cain, an African-American talk-show host who voiced some of the ads, told the Sun.
He said similar advertisements run in 2004 helped boost President Bush's share of the black vote in Ohio to 16 percent from 9 percent in 2000.
The IRS filing indicates that the America’s PAC ads are running this year in 10 battleground states, including Ohio, New Mexico, and Nevada.
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