Billy Long wants the Republican party to come together on August 4th and back the nominee. Unfortunately for Billy Long, the bridges he has burned this week as he has been reduced to lies against his opponents may make it hard for those same men to support Billy if he is the candidate. Long has weakened the Republican party with his lies, providing he is the candidate, and I don't forsee enthusiastic support for him if he is the nominee after the series of lies Billy Long unleashed this week.
We already know Billy Long's own campaign strategist, James Harris, had his fingers all over the $100 million they have attacked Gary Nodler and Jack Goodman with during this week. Now Gary Nodler is fighting back against the lies.
Gary Nodler issued the following press release addressing the lies in Billy Long's negative ad. To date, Billy Long is the only candidate to go negative in Missouri's Seventh District Republican primary:
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Media Contact Information:
Brooke Hobbs (417) 818-6874
PRESS RELEASE
During the last few days candidate Billy Long has abandoned both honesty and decency. He is running a totally false attack ad accusing me of two things that are untrue. First he has charged that Americans for Job Security, an organization that is running an ad critical of Long’s vote in favor of a wasteful federal earmark, are my “buddies”. Mr. Long is lying. I have never met anyone from the organization, I have never communicated with anyone from this organization. Long’s claim is a lie, pure and simple.
The second problem with the ad is that it attacks me for voting for $100 million for a single developer. The problem is that the Missouri legislature has never appropriated $100 million for a single developer in the form of an appropriation or in the form of a tax credit; there is no $100 million dollar program that I know of.
The only program that I am aware of involving development is a tax credit for development of property in St. Louis Missouri. That credit does not reach $100 million over its entire multi-year lifetime. It could not possibly be what Mr. Long is referring to, because the lobbyist for that effort is James Harris of the Billy Long campaign.
Billy Long should stop spending the last few days of this campaign lying about his opponents and try to find one good reason for a voter in this district to support him!
For further information contact Gary Nodler at 417-437-5162.Yes, Senator Nodler, we agree, Billy Long should find one good reason a voter in this district should support him. Every argument he has made in this election of why he should be the next Congressman has been easily defeated from earmarks, which he sought on the Springfield Branson airport board, to being a small businessman, while forgetting, which David Catanese pointed out on the radio yesterday, small businessmen were partially responsible for the bailout mess. One thing Billy Long has proven in this election is he is not a man of character.
Now we are hearing from the western side of the district, Billy Long is lying about Senator Nodler and Senator Jack Goodman's pro-life record. I hate to remind Billy Long, but even the two Democrats waiting to possibly oppose Billy, God forbid if he actually wins, are pro-life.
The Long campaign looks desperate going into the final weekend of the campaign, and it's showing as supporters like Gordon Kinney are throwing more money at Billy in the final hours using the name of his young son. Mr. Kinney, considering Mr. Long's huge advantage with 'OPM' (other peoples' money) which he has obviously mismanaged as he continues to embarrass his supporters, do you really believe it's going to help? Billy Long is on life support. The death rattle has begun.
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