Announcer: “A phone number to an adult fantasy hot line appeared on Michael Arcuri’s New York City hotel room bill while he was there on official business. And the call was charged to Oneida County taxpayers. Arcuri has denied it, but the facts are there. Who calls a fantasy hot line and then bills taxpayers? Michael Arcuri.
But Arcuri’s campaign released records showing the call made two years ago from his New York City hotel room to 800-457-8462 a sex line was followed the next minute by a call to 518-457-8462, the state Department of Criminal Justice Services.
Arcuri, the district attorney in Oneida County, said the ad was “clearly libelous” and threatened to file a lawsuit. Even his GOP opponent, state Sen. Ray Meier, described it as “way over the line.”
At least seven television stations in Syracuse, Utica and Binghamton refused to run the ad, Arcuri said.
The NRCC stood by the 30-second message. Spokesman Ed Patru insisted it was “totally true” and said candidate Meier was not consulted.
the NRCC’s ads to the ads of a particular candidate. The Committees can go way more negative without having to worry so much about the backdraft.
Announcer: “Deval Patrick says he wandered into that cop-killer’s courtroom by accident…but do you really trust him?”
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The original link seems to have gone 404; here’s another to the ad video, hotel bill, etc.
It’s great to see NRCC money going to ads that embarrass their own candidate enough to denounce them. I wonder if Meier had to wait for a poll to know that this had crossed the line, or had the integrity to figure it out for himself.
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