This ad responds directly to Smoot's "Let them eat steak" radio ad (also debunked here) and I think the two are running on some of the same radio stations. We've noted elsewhere that Shelia Smoot's ads are short on facts and long on negativity -- I've listened to the ones she's sent out on Facebook and they're entirely negative, no mention at all of Smoot's qualifications, plans to create jobs, reduce poverty or improve infrastructure in Alabama's 7th congressional district, just accusations about her opponent. When you have nothing positive to run on, it's all about tearing down the other side.
In contrast, Terri Sewell's media advertising has been all positive to this point and I hear that her positive ads are still running in the district. But positive campaign or no, when you're attacked, you'd better hit back with the truth or people will believe the lies.
This question of attending Republican meetings (as alleged in the Smoot ad) came up at Sewell's town hall meeting in Birmingham Thursday evening, asked by a woman who said she had several questions she got off the internet. Sewell said:
"I am a strong Democrat and I have been all my life. ... I am a Democrat and I am not going to go to Congress and switch parties, and I know who I am and whose I am."
The lady who asked the question thanked Sewell and said she would email that response around. Video of the interchange is below the fold.
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