MoveOn to target four GOP House candidates in $2.3m ad buy

RAW STORY
Published: Monday April 3, 2006

NBC affiliates have rejected MoveOn.org ads targeting 4 Republicans for voting in the interest of big oil, RAW STORY has learned.

The $2.3 million ad buy, which MoveOn calls the first in a series, will target four Congresspersons in competitive districts. Representatives Chris Chocola (IN-2), Thelma Drake (VA-2), Nancy Johnson (CT-5) and Deborah Pryce (OH-15) will be the first hit. All four voted against giving the U.S. Department of Justice authority to prosecute oil companies for alleged price gouging.

According to the National Republican Congressional Committee, NBC affiliates in Columbus, OH and Hartford, CT have refused to air the ads.

The campaign will be launched at a telepress conference today at 1 pm EST.

The ads and their substantiation, can be viewed at MoveOn.org.

The complete script of the Virginia ad follows:

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MoveOn.org Political Action TV :30 "Red Handed - Energy" Drake (VA-02)

VIDEO OPEN ON A FOLDER. WE SEE THE NAME "THELMA DRAKE" ACROSS THE FRONT. DRAKE'S HEADSHOT IS PAPERCLIPPED TO THE OUTSIDE OF THE FOLDER.

CUT TO THE INSIDE OF THE FOLDER, NOW OPEN, ANOTHER PHOTO OF DRAKE. THEN WE SEE PHOTOS OF OIL TANKERS AND REFINERIES, FOLLOWED BY PHOTOS OF GAS STATION SIGNS DISPLAYING VERY HIGH GAS PRICES. WE MOVE THROUGH THE PHOTOS EDITORIALLY- LIKE SNAPSHOTS TAKEN OF THE FOLDER.

AUDIO ANNOUNCER (VO): Congresswoman Thelma Drake. She accepted more than thirty thousand dollars from energy companies, and she voted against bills that would have penalized those companies for price gouging.

VIDEO CUT TO A CLOSE UP OF PHOTO OF REP. DRAKE. WE MOVE IN CLOSE ON HER RAISED HAND. A SPECIAL EFFECT DRAMATICALLY STAINS HER HAND RED.

AUDIO ANNOUNCER (VO): Instead of protecting us, Congresswoman Drake has been caught red-handed, protecting oil company profits while we pay more at the pump.

VIDEO CUT TO SERIES OF BLACK AND WHITE PHOTOS WITH PHOTO-JOURNALISTIC FEEL. FIRST TOM DELAY WAVING. THEN DICK CHENEY WITH BOTH HANDS RAISED. THEN JACK ABRAMOFF WITH HIS HAND UP, BEING SWORN IN. THEIR HANDS ARE ALSO STAINED RED.

AUDIO ANNOUNCER (VO): Tom DeLay, Dick Cheney, Jack Abramoff. And now Thelma Drake. Another republican caught red handed.

VIDEO CUT BACK TO IMAGE OF REP. DRAKE WITH RAISED HAND STAINED RED. SUPER FULL MOVEON.ORG POLITICAL ACTION DISCLAIMER.

AUDIO ANNCR (VO): MoveOn.org Political Action is responsible for the content of this advertisement.

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