GOVERNOR RACE ISSUES DOMINATE AD WARS TV
When asked why they chose to make their first TV ad about an emotional non-pocketbook issue, a Republican Party spokesman said: "Inflation and economy issues are so prominent in the news right now that nobody has to pay to get the message out. Maine Republican Party leaders spent the weekend at the Democratic Party Convention in Bangor criticizing their rivals for trying to distract voters from important pocketbook issues, like rising gas and grocery prices, by focusing on emotional "culture war" issues such as abortion.
Paul LePage has raised $1.3 million - suggest this could become the most expensive governor's race in Maine history. The large fundraising totals so far - Mills has raised $2.7 million to date and former Gov. Produced by a Virginia company, the ad buy - the first of at least $4 million the Maine Republican Party plans to run - cost about $94,000, campaign finance records show.Įarlier this month, the Democratic Governors Association announced a $5 million TV campaign. The ad campaign will start running across multiple Maine-based TV and radio stations on Wednesday. The lesson, which is narrated by a Whitefield elementary school teacher, explores four holidays that celebrate freedoms in the United States and touches on freedoms recently achieved by certain groups of Americans, including blacks, women and LGBTQ individuals. The clip is from a much longer video, "Freedom Holidays," that the state Department of Education recommends as a social studies, language arts, and life-and-career lesson plan to teach kindergarten students about three core vocabulary words: rights, history and government. "Janet Mills' radical agenda is just wrong for our kids and for Maine." "Is this really what our kids should be learning in kindergarten instead of math, science and reading?" the narrator asks after a clip from a state education video is played.
GOVERNOR RACE ISSUES DOMINATE AD WARS SERIES
The one-minute ad accuses Mills of spending $2.8 million to create a series of state Department of Education videos that teach "radical school lessons" such as same-sex relationships and transgender choices to children as young as kindergarten-age. Janet Mills' administration for using tax dollars to create pro-LGBTQ lesson plans for kindergarten students. May 18-The Maine Republican Party is kicking off the TV ad campaigns in the state's governor's race Wednesday with a culture-war attack that criticizes Gov.
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