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Monday, August 16, 2010

Gotta catch 'em all: Yet another dishonest Reichert search ad materializes

Last night I reported the discovery of a second dishonest Reichert ad placed as a "sponsored link" with search engines, forty eight hours after Suzan DelBene's campaign alerted the media to the first one. The team at NPI has now discovered a third ad, showing up on Bing and Yahoo (and possibly Google).

This one isn't about environmental protection or equal pay for equal work, however, which I jokingly suggested would be next.

Instead, it's about economic security:
Serve-Protect-Strengthen Dave Reichert.com
Reichert for U.S. Congress: Learn How He's Fighting to Create Jobs!
Except he's not. Reichert hasn't lifted a finger to help working families in the 8th Congressional District, or anywhere else for that matter. Early in his current term, he made it plainly clear whose side he's on when he voted against the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), also known as the stimulus.

The legislation — which Reichert challenger Suzan DelBene supports — has preserved or created hundreds of thousands of jobs nationwide.

More recently, Reichert voted against Senate Amendment 4567 to H.R. 1586 on August 10th. That amendment will provide billions of dollars in federal aid to avert teacher layoffs and protect Medicaid coverage for our most vulnerable citizens. Without it, Washington State would be grappling with a much deeper budget shortfall. But Dave Reichert voted NO. Because that's how Dave rolls.

Reichert isn't even for saving jobs, let alone creating them.

When is the lying going to stop?

If you'd like to see the ads for yourself, go to one of the three big search engines (we suggest Bing or Yahoo, since Google is evil) and type in "Dave Reichert", "Suzan DelBene", "Tim Dillon", or "Tom Cramer".

You should see Reichert's ads. It turns out his operatives bought ads to run above searches for the names of three of his opponents as well as Reichert's own name. Curiously, no ads for Reichert appear when searching for the names of his other opponents. Then again, Suzan, Tom, and Tim are the ones who appear to be most visible... they've got yard signs up around the district.

We'll stay on top of this and let you know if any more blatantly false Reichert ads materialize on search engines.

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