Monday, September 13, 2010
10:42 AM
Feingold campaign seeks to have Johnson ad taken off the air
Russ Feingold’s campaign writes in a letter to Ron Johnson’s campaign manager that a TV ad claiming the senator has “not worked anywhere outside of politics” is “blatantly false.”
The letter from Feingold campaign manager George Aldrich says Feingold worked for his family’s title and abstract business when he was 15, worked his way through college and worked in private practice as an attorney. The letter notes The Associated Press has reported the ad falsely claims Feingold never worked outside of politics.
“You have every right to ignore the media but you have a responsibility to the people of Wisconsin to tell the truth,” Aldrich wrote.
Although acknowledging the Dem incumbent from Middleton has had work experience outside of being an elected official, the Oshkosh Republican businessman continued to paint the incumbent as a career politician on Sunday's “UpFront with Mike Gousha.”
“I guess I'm not 100 percent sure why Senator Feingold takes such offense by being called a career politician. It's a fact,” Johnson said on the statewide TV newsmagazine produced in conjunction with WisPolitics.com. “If you take a look at his history … what has he done with his life? He went out to Harvard, went out to Oxford, came back, worked for a couple of years in a law firm, probably while he was running for election to the state Senate. He served 10 years in the state Senate and now he's served close to 18 years in the U.S. Senate. I believe that would be a definition of a career politician. I don't know what else he's done in his life.”
Johnson's primary opponent, Dave Westlake of Watertown, also appeared on "UpFront."
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