Michaud Campaign runs FAKE TV AD targeting Kevin Raye
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7/11/12
Poll Shows Michaud-Raye Race Tightening
The latest poll in the 2nd District race shows the race tightening, with Congressman Michaud's polling numbers in a free-fall, dropping 12 percentage points since December.
Published in today's Portland Press Herald, Kennebec Journal and Central Maine Morning Sentinel, the new Critical Insights poll reveals that, for the first time in the race, Congressman Michaud is polling under 50%, very dangerous territory for any incumbent. The poll conducted in late June shows Michaud at 47% and Kevin Raye at 35%, with 18% undecided.
Even though the general election campaign has not yet begun in earnest, Michaud's numbers have fallen in each of three successive polls made public since our own internal poll showed Michaud with a 27-point lead in the head-to-head match-up last December, drawing 59% to Raye's 32%. That lead is now down to just 12% with Michaud in the dreaded under-50% category.
In January, Michaud released his own poll showing him at 55%, an early April poll by the left-leaning Maine People's Resource Center showed him at 52%, and the latest poll shows him down to just 47%. These numbers and Michaud's slide in the polls demonstrate Mainer's desire for a stronger voice in Washington.
Here is the excerpt from today's article relating specifically to the 2nd District race:
As expected, the race in Maine's 2nd Congressional District is closer, according to the poll.
Rep. Mike Michaud leads Republican Kevin Raye 47 percent to 35 percent in Maine's 2nd District, where a relatively large block of voters said they are undecided. Michaud's lead is strongest among women and voters 55 to 64 years old and older, according to the poll.
Name Recognition and more conservative voters in central and northern Maine appear to be helping Republican challenger Kevin Raye, Maine's Senate President. There also is a relatively large pool of undecided voters, 18 percent.
Alex Waite, 51, a Democrat who's a paper mill worker from East Millinocket, said he may vote for the republican this time, in part because of frustration with the economy and trade issues. "I am disappointed in the way things went with (Michaud)," Waite said. "I vote for who I think will benefit me and my area" regardless of party, he said.
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Posted: 7:01 PM
Updated: 7:04 PM
Truth Test: Anti-Raye ad among most misleading of season
By Michael Shepherd mshepherd@mainetoday.com
Staff Writer
If you're looking for an exaggerated ad this campaign season, you've found possibly the best example yet.
This ad supports ... Michaud ..... against Republican challenger Kevin Raye..... on spending overseen by Raye for renovations to Republican offices in the State House.
In all, the ad is among the most misleading so far this campaign season.
We're calling its statement of fact false.
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We rate this ad false.
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Complete and total vindication for Kevin Raye.
Kevin Raye:
The verdict is in. Maine Today Media .... rates ...Michaud's negative attack ad as not only "FALSE" but "a whopper" that is "among the most misleading of the season." I hope the Congressman will do the honorable thing and take down his blatantly false ad, and apologize for misleading voters.
I just posted the PPH story link on Michaud's FB page. Bets on how long it lasts before deletion?
Can anyone comment on the $20k installation of a kitchen in the office of the Senate President? Michaud is making that contention in an ad, and it is the first I've heard it mentioned. It seems to me that there might be more to the story.
It's false. The PPH article explains what really happened, with the State House R office renovations. The actual amount was about $14K, of which $8,550 was for bringing electrical work up to code.
The Michaud ad used fake photos of a kitchen that does not exist. Even the PPH had to admit the ad is completely and utterly fabricated. The word they used was a "whopper."
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Raye, a Republican, says Democrat Michaud's campaign used fake photos. Raye said the only kitchen in his office is a 14-by-10-inch sink with a dorm-size refrigerator, and "lounge" is a conference room with a table, chairs and some workstations.
The Michaud campaign .... stands by its advertisement, though it acknowledges the pictures were stock photos.
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In other words, they lied, and they know it, but they'd prefer not to acknowledge the truth. Nice display of "integrity."
The Michaud campaign deleted my post citing the PPH article that says their ad about Raye is FALSE. Then they blocked me from further posts on their Facebook page.
What are you afraid of, Michaud?
Instead of lying about Kevin Raye, how about you explain your own, gratuitous use of taxpayer money by taking a leased $800/month car from the US government? Isn't a $174K yearly salary enough for you?
This is the opulent Republican "lounge" that Kevin Raye supposedly squandered $20k renovating.
Michaud and his campaign so lied on this one.
The bigger question would appear to be, how do you spend $20k and only get that room for the tax money spent? Typical government waste?
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Most of the cost was in bringing the electrical work up to code. The electrical work cost about $8,550.00. Raye had nothing to do with that portion of the project.
The total actually spent was about $14K, and included labor for moving existing furniture from other areas, reconfiguring work cubicles, and a new, tiny sink and a mini refrigerator.
The ad created by Michaud's campaign used FAKE PICTURES of a non-existent kitchen, over which they superimposed a photo of Raye in a hard-hat, and a tape measure. The entire ad is one, big fat-cat piece of fiction.
Meanwhile, this edition of the PPH Truth Test (for some strange reason) hasn't been placed on the main PPH news feed. Unlike every other Truth Test article they've run, thus far.
Imagine that.
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Here's the FAKE Michaud ad.
Look at the photo of that kitchen, on the video. It's FAKE! They copied it from some stock photo company, and it doesn't exist at the State House.
Here's the real kitchen:
Sen. Raye has asked Michaud to pull the ad, and to apologize.
So far, no response from the Michaud campaign.
Mike Michaud -- What ELSE Does He Lie About?
Here's an updated photo of the "lounge"about which Michaud lied.
Again - compare these photos to the ones Michaud used in his video.
Ask Mike Michaud to Quit the Lying.
The BDN acknowledges that Michaud used fake photos in his TV ad to attack Kevin Raye.
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Michaud, Raye nearly even in third-quarter fundraising
By Matthew Stone, BDN Staff
Posted Oct. 15, 2012
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Michaud ...ad... accuses Raye of spending $20,000 to remodel a State House lounge for Senate Republicans and install a kitchen in his office. The ad uses a stock photo of a luxurious kitchen, not a photo from Maine’s State House.
Raye’s campaign responded that the Senate president spent $9,000 — not $20,000 — to install a coffee station and sink, not a full kitchen, in a reception area outside his office. He didn’t redecorate a State House lounge for Republican senators, the campaign said.
The campaign called on Michaud to pull the ad....
Headlines currently gracing the main PPH news feed:
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Eddie Yost, nicknamed The Walking Man, dies at 86
Peak foliage colors holding on in Maine
Texas man pleads guilty in plot to kill Saudi ambassador
Texas landowners take a rare stand against Big Oil
Google opens window into secretive data centers
Study: Multivitamins may lower cancer risk in men
UNH community to reflect on life of slain student
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Add to this, at least four stories on the Zumba prostitution scandals, and three on last night's earthquake.
No room for the "Truth Test" article showing that Michaud lied, huh?
Meanwhile, Michaud's Facebook page still has the FAKE TV AD featured, front and center.
Media Mike - How Do We Know He's Not Lying About Everything Else?
Sorry how do you spend that much moving furniture ??
Do we not have custodian /maintenance staff to do these things?
Hell there is a Pre Release unit 4 miles away full of free labor!
But shame on Mikey for telling a naughty !!
Two days, and the PPH is still burying the article in the back cyber-stratosphere. I would be downright mortified to exercise such blatant bias and hypocrisy.
Bruce Libby: Do we not have custodian /maintenance staff to do these things?
Yeah, but they're state employee union members.
Ya and usually they are the lowest paid staff who take care of our buildings and actually they quite a good job from what I have seen in the capital.
How about taking a cheap with something that marginally relates to the thread or any responce.
Maybe the union contract forbids such labor, they are janitors, groundskeepers not carpenters.
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Bruce Libby: How about taking a cheap with something that marginally relates to the thread or any responce.
Huh?
Well, well -- after five days buried in the Back Forty, the PPH finally moved their "Michaud Fake Ad" article to the main news feed.
Fake ad ,expensive furniture move , both questionable in there own right!
Bruce - feel free to ask the Senate leadership for the details, if you wish.
Sorry I forgot he is unquestionable!
That is not what I wrote. If you want the specifics on how much the construction cost, feel free to inquire, and get the information.
My thread is about the FAKE ad from Michaud -- the one still being shown on tv stations across Maine. It's despicable.
Just saw Michaud's FAKE TV AD again, targeting Kevin Raye. How any reputable tv station can keep running that ad, is beyond me.
BDN Gives Endorsement to Senator Kevin Raye
We are endorsing state Sen. Kevin Raye to represent the 2nd Congressional District because of his political skills and his commitment to Maine and because we believe having someone in the majority party in the U.S. House will improve the odds that legislation benefiting Maine will pass.
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Poll Shows Kevin Raye Locked in Tight Race: 47.1%-40.3%
Michaud's false attack shows panic as incumbent falls below 50%
.....Kevin Raye ... gained significant ground... very competitive 47.1% to 40.3% race... with .... 12.6% undecided.
Any time an incumbent falls below 50%, it signals ...deep trouble, especially when it happens in October. Panic ....explains... desperation behind... Michaud's bizarre and false negative ad attacking Kevin.
Incumbent Congressmen don't launch negative attacks ... unless they know they are in trouble. Mike Michaud knows that his support has plummeted as voters respond to Kevin Raye's constructive record of bringing Republicans and Democrats together to solve problems.
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