Pryor invokes Ebola outbreak in new TV attack ad

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Source: AP

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) —Democratic Sen. Mark Pryor invoked the Ebola outbreak in a new television ad unveiled this week criticizing his Republican rival over a vote against medical disaster funding, injecting fears about the deadly pandemic into an already intense race.

The Arkansas senator's campaign has been running a new television spot that opens with TV news clips about the outbreak, which has killed more than 1,400 people in West Africa. Health officials say an outbreak in the U.S. is unlikely.

The spot criticizes Republican rival Tom Cotton, a freshman congressman from south Arkansas, for a vote last year against legislation reauthorizing pandemic response programs.

"Tom Cotton voted against preparing America for pandemics like Ebola," a narrator says in the ad before another voice adds, "Congressman Cotton voted to cut billions from our nation's medical disaster and emergency programs."

Read more: http://bigstory.ap.org/article/pryor-invokes-ebola-outbreak-new-tv-attack-ad

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[True Blue Door]

1. The magic of the Free Market will sort it out, just like in the 14th century!

[Earth_First]

2. I fucking hate campaign season adverting... n/t

[DRoseDARs]

3. Was ready to be annoyed a D did this, but it's a good, hard-hitting point.

Ebola is very unlikely to be a problem in this country BECAUSE we have the means to respond to pandemics. Cotton sought to cut funds from our ability to do so.

[Cha]

7. Exaclty, DRoseDARs

[hedgehog]

4. Works for me - the Republicans have been gutting the NIH - what

do people think is going to happen?

http://www.nih.gov/news/health/jun2013/nih-03.htm

Really, does it make that much difference whether you're dying from Ebola,or MS or Parkinson's or Alzheimer's?

[freshwest]

6. Doesn't matter to Republicans, obviously. They do want more deaths.

[markmyword]

5. Good For Pryor!

Great ad!
Pryor is just pointing out to the voters the voting RECORD of his Republican rival.

It's only the truth. It's about time that Democrats let the voters know how these Republicans vote against their interest and support the 1%

The emergency fund Cotton voted against was a pandemic fund already in place BEFORE the Ebola outbreak. I presume it's to be used either in the U.S. Or for the international community. Other Republicans have voted for it, BUT he DIDN'T.

People are traveling on planes and so it is possible these days for diseases to spread quickly. One hundred twenty people from India who've been exposed to the Ebola virus (while working in Africa) have been flown back to India on two planes!!! Who knows what these Indian hospitals have in place to handle these exposed workers?

This is how a pandemic could start and this Congressmen voted against funding.

Smart ad Senator Pryor, keep it up!

[hedgehog]

8. I've thought about this overnight, and I'd love to see the DCCC work up a version of this

and broadcast it nationally.