Vets group, Grayson battle over ad - Alex Isenstadt - POLITICO.com
In a one-page letter to Grayson, Bill Backes, the Florida commandant of the Marine Corps League, excoriates the congressman for featuring a still shot of a smiling Grayson alongside a veteran wearing Marine Corps League attire – an image, Backes argues, that wrongfully suggests the group has endorsed Grayson.
“What the Marine Corps League finds offensive is that you, Congressman Grayson, used these pictures in political and TV ads to further your campaign for reelection, thereby subconsciously saying to the public that the Marine Corps League supports Alan Grayson,” writes Backes. “This is what the Marines of the Marine Corps League find inexcusable and despicable.”
Backes also notes that, as a 501c organization, the group cannot legally endorse any candidate or party, and concludes: “The Marine Corps League strongly insists that this ad be removed from further showing.”
Grayson spokesman Sam Dryzmala shrugged off the accusation, writing in an e-mail message that, “Our ad doesn’t insinuate that the Marine Corps League has endorsed either Alan Grayson or Dan Webster.”
Grayson, who has a $1.3 million campaign war chest, has aired a handful of ads since the start of the general election. The veterans spot his most aggressive to date. Gryson stated:
Daniel Webster was called to serve our country six times during the Vietnam War. Each time, Daniel Webster refused the call to service,” says the ad’s narrator, as “Taps” plays in the background. “It breaks an old soldier’s heart to think that Webster could ever be elected to Congress. He doesn’t love this country the way I do. Daniel Webster doesn’t care about us.
Webster’s campaign has called the Grayson ad inaccurate. Webster campaign manager Brian Graham said in a statement last week that after graduating from college in the early 1970s, he was turned down for service as a result of his physical evaluation.
While attending Georgia Tech between 1967 and 1971, Graham noted, Webster served in the Army ROTC program.
Rightrdia comment: If Webster served four years in ROTC, he would have been called to active duty as a reserve officer. You have to sign a contract with ROTC in the third year to stay in the program. If you dropped out of college once you signed this contract , the Armed Service would call you up as an enlisted person.
Grayson should hammer this 'chicken hawk' on dodging his military service.
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“What the Marine Corps League finds offensive is that you, Congressman Grayson, used these pictures in political and TV ads to further your campaign for reelection, thereby subconsciously saying to the public that the Marine Corps League supports Alan Grayson,” writes Backes. “This is what the Marines of the Marine Corps League find inexcusable and despicable.”
Backes also notes that, as a 501c organization, the group cannot legally endorse any candidate or party, and concludes: “The Marine Corps League strongly insists that this ad be removed from further showing.”
Grayson spokesman Sam Dryzmala shrugged off the accusation, writing in an e-mail message that, “Our ad doesn’t insinuate that the Marine Corps League has endorsed either Alan Grayson or Dan Webster.”
Grayson, who has a $1.3 million campaign war chest, has aired a handful of ads since the start of the general election. The veterans spot his most aggressive to date. Gryson stated:
Daniel Webster was called to serve our country six times during the Vietnam War. Each time, Daniel Webster refused the call to service,” says the ad’s narrator, as “Taps” plays in the background. “It breaks an old soldier’s heart to think that Webster could ever be elected to Congress. He doesn’t love this country the way I do. Daniel Webster doesn’t care about us.
Webster’s campaign has called the Grayson ad inaccurate. Webster campaign manager Brian Graham said in a statement last week that after graduating from college in the early 1970s, he was turned down for service as a result of his physical evaluation.
While attending Georgia Tech between 1967 and 1971, Graham noted, Webster served in the Army ROTC program.
Rightrdia comment: If Webster served four years in ROTC, he would have been called to active duty as a reserve officer. You have to sign a contract with ROTC in the third year to stay in the program. If you dropped out of college once you signed this contract , the Armed Service would call you up as an enlisted person.
Grayson should hammer this 'chicken hawk' on dodging his military service.
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