NRCC cancels another week for Paulsen, cuts back on Bachmann's time too.

Posted at 1:03 PM on October 10, 2008 by Tom Scheck (3 Comments)

The National Republican Congressional Committee has pulled another week of scheduled ad time for Republican candidate Erik Paulsen. The NRCC canceled ad time scheduled to run between October 21st through October 27th at KSTP, WCCO and KARE. That means the NRCC will only run time in the week leading up to the election for Paulsen instead of the three weeks initially reserved.

Paulsen is running for the open seat in Minnesota's 3rd Congressional District. DFLer Ashwin Madia and I-P candidate David Dillon are the other candidates in the race (which is one of the most competitive in the country). There are several groups running ads in support of Madia (which rip Paulsen). They are the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, the Patriot Majority and Health Care America.

The NRCC also canceled time reserved for GOP Rep. Michele Bachmann. That time was scheduled to run between October 20th and October 26th. The NRCC still has time reserved for the final week of the campaign. Bachmann herself is running ads. She reserved nearly $750,000 in ads on WCCO, KARE and KSTP.

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Comments (3)

They must have seen what an effect Paulsen's own negative ads have had. Madia just keeps right on chugging...talking to folks across the district every day and continuing to hone and share his ideas for how to get this economy back on track, restore fiscal responsibility to Washington, and end the war in Iraq responsibly. Paulsen, meanwhile, still has nothing on his web site about Iraq, continues to dodge the voters and who knows what his next attack ad will infer? Ashwin is gaining steam daily and won't stop till he's in Washington.

Posted by rainman | October 10, 2008 4:32 PM

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Kind of looks like the NRCC ads will be seen by the same number of people that have actually seen Paulsen in an open, public setting: ZERO.

Ramstad used to hold open, "Town Hall" meetings; usually a series of them and usually twice a year. Paulsen doesn't even appear in front of a microphone at his own press conferences, as the last two attest.

Erik Paulsen started his campaign claiming something he is not, that being a moderate.

Paulsen's run from who he is, what his record is, and all public appearances. And, as his just reward, the National Republican Congressional Committee is running from him.

Posted by TwoPutt Tommy | October 10, 2008 7:02 PM

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I guess I was wrong...we didn't have to wait for Paulsen's next attack ad. He accused Madia of orchestrating the attack ads with the DCCC at the Almanac debate tonight. Ashwin has so much control, I would have smacked him...Paulsen can't win on the issues so he continues to try cheap character attacks...he's worse than the ads from outside that are against him. The problem with this whole story is that Paulsen refuses to debate the issues, because he knows he can't win with his right wing ultra conservative stance...he's mean spirited and a cheap career politician. We can do better in Washington and Madia is not just better, he's the best any of us has seen in our lifetimes.

Posted by rainman | October 10, 2008 9:45 PM

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