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Friday, June 24th, 2022

Patty Murray, Kim Schrier release new ads in wake of Alito court’s Dobbs decision

Unit­ed States Sen­a­tor Pat­ty Mur­ray and Unit­ed States Rep­re­sen­ta­tive Kim Schri­er announced this after­noon that their reelec­tion cam­paigns have begun air­ing new tele­vi­sion spots that respond to the Ali­to court’s hor­rif­ic and appalling deci­sion over­turn­ing Roe v. Wade and Planned Par­ent­hood v. Casey.

In the spots, Mur­ray and Schri­er speak direct­ly to vot­ers in a sin­gle take, empha­siz­ing that they are unequiv­o­cal­ly com­mit­ted to repro­duc­tive rights, while not­ing that their oppo­nents are not. Here’s Mur­ray’s “Won’t Back Down” ad:

Mur­ray: “It is a hor­ri­fy­ing real­i­ty – extreme politi­cians across our coun­try, now in charge of the most pri­vate health­care deci­sions. The Supreme Court may have ruled. But it’s up to us to make sure they don’t get the final word. I won’t stop fight­ing until we guar­an­tee repro­duc­tive free­dom for every Amer­i­can. We will not be still. We will not be silent. We will not back down.”

And here’s Schri­er’s “Oath” ad:

Schri­er: As a doc­tor, my oath is to pro­tect patients. As your con­gress­woman, my oath is to pro­tect your rights. Now that the Court has over­turned Roe, Con­gress must pro­tect a wom­an’s right to choose. We should trust women to make these deci­sions, espe­cial­ly if a moth­er’s life is at risk, or in cas­es of rape or incest. I’m Kim Schri­er and I am the only can­di­date in this race who will pro­tect a wom­an’s right to choose. I approve this mes­sage because I’ll nev­er break my oath to you.

One of Schri­er’s Repub­li­can oppo­nents, King Coun­ty Coun­cilmem­ber Rea­gan Dunn, went up on cable yes­ter­day with this ad that tries to simul­ta­ne­ous­ly pitch his can­di­da­cy while serv­ing up crit­i­cism of Schri­er and Pres­i­dent Joe Biden. The ad makes no men­tion of repro­duc­tive rights, a cause Dunn has pre­vi­ous­ly bro­ken with his par­ty on (as his moth­er did before him), but now oppos­es.

Mur­ray’s cam­paign also has a sec­ond ad, “Abor­tion Ban,” that draws a clear con­trast between her posi­tion and that of Repub­li­can Tiffany Smiley’s.

Dr. Judy Kimel­man, MD: “Now that the Supreme Court has over­turned Roe v. Wade and states across the nation are ban­ning abor­tion. You think women’s repro­duc­tive health care is safe here in Wash­ing­ton? Not with Mitch McConnell’s hand­picked can­di­date Tiffany Smi­ley in the Senate.”

Audio of Tiffany Smi­ley plays where Smi­ley states: “I’m 100% pro-life.”

“Tiffany Smiley’s first vote will be to make Mitch McConnell major­i­ty leader and they will work togeth­er to ban abor­tions nation­wide. Don’t take my word. Believe Tiffany Smiley.”

Audio of Tiffany Smi­ley plays where Smi­ley states: “I’m 100% pro-life.”

NPI’s most recent statewide sur­vey found Mur­ray with an eleven point lead over Smi­ley. Mur­ray has won five con­sec­u­tive cam­paigns for the Unit­ed States Sen­ate, dat­ing back to 1992, when she was first elect­ed. Schri­er, mean­while, has won two con­sec­u­tive cam­paigns in the state’s 8th Con­gres­sion­al Dis­trict, defeat­ing Repub­li­cans Dino Rossi and Jesse Jensen. Jensen is run­ning against Schri­er this year along with Dunn and failed attor­ney gen­er­al can­di­date Matt Larkin.

Vot­ers across Wash­ing­ton will get their Top Two elec­tion bal­lots in less than a month, and will cast votes for U.S. Sen­ate and U.S. House, as well as for Sec­re­tary of State, state leg­isla­tive races, and coun­ty positions.

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