Negative ads air again in Ga. Senate race | savannahnow.com

ATLANTA — A new batch of ads attacking both of the Senate Republican candidates are on the air, living up to predictions that the runoff would be heated and negative.

Jack Kingston and David Perdue are under attack by separate ads that try to paint each as less conservative than the other. And both camps complain of deliberate distortions.

The ad aimed at Perdue hammers on the theme of higher taxes. It says Perdue wants to raise them, including a sales tax on all online purchases, while Kingston “has never voted to raise our taxes. Never.”

At the same time, Kingston is being hit with a spot attacking his career in Congress for spending “our tax dollars on thousands of wasteful earmarks, all while voting to raise his own pay seven times.” He also voted repeatedly with the House leadership in raising the debt ceiling. “Jack’s 22 years of liberal spending has to stop,” an announcer intones.

The ad attacking Perdue is only airing in on Atlanta television stations because Kingston’s ability to take three out of every four votes counted May 20 in East and South Georgia shows he doesn’t need much help there. It was conceived and paid for by a political action committee called Southern Conservatives Fund which is prohibited by law from coordinating messages with Kingston’s campaign, and it’s the only television advertising on his behalf right now, notes Eric Johnson, a former Savannah legislator and gubernatorial candidate who speaks for the PAC.

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