Get 'em Mark Pryor (D. AR):
http://thehill.com/...
Sen. Mark Pryor (D-Ark.) is hammering Rep. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) for voting against the Violence Against Women Act in two new ads.
Both spots feature women attacking Cotton for the vote.
"One out of every four women will be a victim of domestic violence," says a young woman identified as Courtney in the ad. "So when Congressman Cotton was the only Republican or Democrat in Arkansas to vote against the Violence Against Women Act, I was shocked. First he's against equal pay for women, now Cotton won’t protect us from domestic abuse. Who is this guy, and what's he got against women?"
An older woman attacks him in the other spot.
"I speak for myself, my 26-year-old daughter, and I think many women," said a woman who introduces herself as Linda. "Cotton's votes are insulting and don’t reflect the views of most Arkansans." - The Hill, 6/5/14
Here's a little more info:
http://www.msnbc.com/...
Last year, the House approved an extension of the Violence Against Women Act despite opposition from most House Republicans. It was a striking vote – in 2005, a GOP-led House reauthorized the law in a lopsided, near-unanimous tally, but in this Congress, Republican opposition to VAWA in the House went from 2 a decade ago to 128 now. What was a fringe position had become the GOP majority position.
One of the 128 opponents of the law was Rep. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.), who’d only been in Congress for about a month when he cast the vote.
Don’t be surprised if Democrats keep emphasizing this message in the coming months. The party used it against Ken Cuccinelli (R) in Virginia’s gubernatorial race last year, which reinforced the gender gap statewide.
It’s potency is strong enough that more than a few congressional Republicans who opposed VAWA have quietly suggested they voted for it, hoping the public won’t know the difference. - MSNBC, 6/6/14
It's this type of attack strategy that has caused Cotton's number to take a hit in the polls and help improve Pryor's chances:
http://www.msnbc.com/...
“It’s something of a parlor trick: How can a Republican not win in Arkansas right now?” an editorial in the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette asked last month, citing Cotton’s struggles.
The answer to the question is simple: Democratic attacks – and lots of them.
Pryor got on TV early with campaign ads tying Cotton to House Budget Chairman Paul Ryan’s proposals to partially privatize Medicare. Meanwhile, the Senate Majority PAC has been running ads transforming Cotton’s biography from war hero into a consultant who “got paid handsomely working for insurance companies” – just one piece of $3 million in outside spending opposing Cotton so far. And Democrats across the state are bashing Cotton for voting against the Farm Bill in the House – the lone Republican from agriculture-heavy Arkansas to do so. Republicans are pouring millions of dollars into new pro-Cotton ads trying to build his image back up.
“He’s a strong candidate on paper,” Janine Parry, a professor political science at the University of Arkansas, told msnbc. “But what we’re seeing is that the few weaknesses he has are weaknesses the Pryor folks and their allies have exploited effectively and early.”
What’s happened to Cotton is hardly unique. In Senate races across the country, vulnerable Democrats are staking their candidacies on a preemptive offensive war that hey hope will knock their opponents out of the race before it ever begins. While Washington debates the nuances of coal and health care, control of the Senate might come down to which party’s candidates can throw the harder punch. - MSNBC, 6/5/14
Lets help Pryor keep exposing Cotton as an extremist and keep this ad on the air. Click here if you want to donate and get involved with Pryor's campaign:
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