Billy Long Goes Negative Attacking Nodler and Goodman After Long's Earmark Hypocrisy Exposed

The Billy Long campaign launches the first negative ad of the campaign in response to a commercial showing Long's hypocritical stand on earmarks. The Long campaign has accused both Nodler, Goodman, and their Washington friends of the ad exposing Billy Long's participation in a $3 million earmark to build the Billy Long bus terminal to nowhere. Here is that ad showing Billy's earmark love:




It appears to me the Billy Long campaign knew Billy Long would be exposed for the earmark fraud he really is. You see, as we know from Billy Long's huge war chest and now this earmark, Billy Long is addicted to OPM--other peoples' money. In less than two days after the ad exposing the truth about Billy Long comes out, the Long campaign goes negative--the first campaign to do so. I expected as much.



Now the Long campaign may accuse Nodler and Goodman of being responsible for the ad exposing the Billy Long earmark that built the Billy Long bus terminal to nowhere, but their campaign has produced no conclusive proof any of these candidates were responsible for this ad, and Long has the nerve of attacking his opponents claiming they are sending out half truths. Notice the ad notifying voters cites the Springfield Business Journal as the source of the earmark, and voting records from the SGF airport board meetings further prover Billy's grubby little fingers were all over this money.

In the ad, Billy Long's campaign attacks both Nodler and Goodman as career politicians. Let's set something straight. Billy Long touts the endorsements of career politicians like Mike Huckabee and Mel Hancock, who both served much longer than Jack Goodman's brief career in Jefferson City. Not only that, but what Billy Long is really attacking in this commercial is their voting records. Isn't it funny Billy Long is trying to draw attention away from his own voting record on the SGF airport board.

Long's campaign may call the earmark commercial a negative ad, but a voting record is a solid piece of evidence of what a politician like Billy Long believes in. If Billy Long voted to seek and use an earmark rather than stand up against the use of that federal money, then the voting record is not a negative attack but a truth voter should know before they put all their trust that Billy Long will go to Washington to fight wasteful spending. According to his resume, Billy Long hasn't done so so far, and that's something voters need to know.

I expect a mailing in the next day or two paid for by the Long campaign with further negative attacks. Look out for it in a mailbox near you.