Saturday, August 21, 2004

Senate Campaign News 20040821 Doug Gallagher's new television ad was once again the top story in the Senate race.  The ad derides his opponents Mel Martinez and Bill McCollum as being a trial lawyer and a lobbyist, respectively.  As mentioned yesterday, they are referred to as the M&M boys and it shows Martinez and McCollum turning into M&Ms (a green one and a red one, respectively).  The St Petersburg Times and Palm Beach Post articles go on to give some insight into the fudraising of the campaigns in recent weeks.  Martinez has an approximate $600,000 advantage in cash on hand. Gallagher begins TV ad barrage aimed at Martinez, McCollum  (St Petersburg Times) Gallagher takes 'M&M' ads to tv (Palm Beach Post) Attack ads heat up GOP Senate race (Orlando Sentinel) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Johnnie Byrd is courting the Christian conservative vote Byrd campaign takes turn to Christian right (Palm Beach Post) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- On the Democratic side, Peter Deutsch and Alex Penelas were at a debate where they debated Republicans who weren't there. Deutsch, Penelas stop jabbing at eachother, aim at Republicans (Palm Beach Post) Deutsch and Penelas blast Bush at roundtable love-in; refuse to criticize eachother (Boca Raton News) --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Miami Herald has an article on the Penelas campaign and the Associated Press has a biographical article. Penelas hopes to regain voters' confidence (Miami Herald) Senate race is next step up in Penelas' political career (Associated Press) Florida Senate Campaign, Politics comment []11:20:18 AM   trackback []