Local candidate airs attack ad from 4 years ago

[mntetn]

Wrong ad has Black attack ’04 foe

SUMNER COUNTY
In the waning days of a political race, it wasn't unusual for Sen. Diane Black, a Gallatin Republican, to roll out a TV attack ad Wednesday night in her campaign to keep her seat in the state legislature.

What was unusual was that the attack ad targeted her opponent in 2004, Jo Ann Graves.

Graves, now mayor of Gallatin, has nothing to do with the current contest between Black and Democratic Jim Hawkins.

The Graves ad, produced by a Virginia media consulting company called OnMessage, ran at least twice — once on two different stations — before word reached Black, who quickly told stations to pull the ads.

The company that digitally transmits the campaign spots, called DGFastChannel, sent the wrong ad to the stations because the coding on the old ad was almost identical to that of a new one aimed at Hawkins. The new ad began airing Thursday.

Black called Graves Thursday afternoon to explain what happened and express her regret.

— THEO EMERY
temery@tennessean.com

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[gsabc]

I think the media consulting company needs to change its name.

[earendel]

Here in good ol' Kaintuck we've been bombarded with quasi-reruns of old ads. To wit: In 1984 when Mitch McConnell was running for the Senate seat held by Walter "Dee" Huddleston, he ran a campaign ad featuring bloodhounds "searching for Huddleston" (because of Huddleston's poor voting record). Over the years those bloodhounds have shown up in ads for both candidates - this year in particular, as the election reaches its end, McConnell's challenger, Bruce Lunsford, has been running a "bloodhound" ad featuring a McConnell lookalike. The McConnell campaign has countered with a similar ad in which the dogs go looking for Lunsford in various places - Lunsford owns homes in several states and also has a private jet, which the McConnell campaign has latched onto as symbols of Lunsford's being "different than regular folks".