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the day she announced earlier this year so it s clear that she didn t do herself any favors by running in 2012 posted in analysis louise and maggie throw down posted on october 20 2012 by rottenchester last night s voice of the voter debate was a pretty good debate no new territory was covered and i doubt that it changed anyone s mind those tuning in to see if louise still has it saw that she s still pretty sharp those who wanted to see brooks attack slaughter hard would have been disappointed i thought slaughter s attacks were more pointed and frequent though neither really went at the other in the opening statements we got a taste of what was coming slaughter my opponent often likes to say all eyes are on monroe county unfortunately those eyes include the state controller the attorney general and the fbi brooks this is a decision between the best of our community and the worst of washington louise slaughter just isn t for us anymore this was the basic theme each emphasized throughout the debate slaughter bolstered her claim with two often repeated pieces of evidence monroe county is 392 million in debt and the only worse run county in new york is rockland county brooks pointed out that slaughter s ads on this point had been ruled as misleading and she said she had been disappointed many times by those who work for her at no point that i remember did brooks take any responsibility for what happened during her tenure as county executive certainly nothing like the buck stops here ever escaped her lips maggie s main specific that she trotted out repeatedly was the lie that the 716 million cut from medicare advantage will reduce benefits this has been debunked repeatedly and slaughter went at it in a couple of ways including pointing out that the cut made medicare solvent for 8 more years and that paul ryan s version of that cut just returned the money to insurance companies instead of being used to keep medicare solvent when the topic of development came up slaughter mentioned laundry lists of the cash she brought into the district while brooks argued that the federal government needs to stand out of the way when asked to explain why she wanted to repeal obamacare maggie resorted to claiming that the bill was passed on a partisan line and she doesn t like the way it was debated in the house lyndon johnson twisted arms to get the voting rights act passed and nobody likes arm twisting i guess we need to repeal that too at the end brooks returned to her theme of the night rochester louise versus washington louise slaughter finished out with you know me i m no stranger wxxi says the video of the debate will be posted later this weekend on their youtube channel for those of you who want to replay it update the debate is available on the 13 wham site now posted in debates second siena poll shows brooks gaining posted on october 14 2012 by rottenchester the latest siena poll pdf shows louise slaughter with a 4 point lead over maggie brooks that s consistent with charlie cook s new ny 25 pvi released a few days ago d 5 that means all other things being equal a democrat has a five point advantage in this district the question for next month is whether brooks campaign has given democrats a reason to vote for her instead of slaughter the crossstabs show that brooks cut into slaughter s huge democratic preference slaughter s down to 81 vs 86 among democrats in the last poll solidified her republican base a bit 2 gain but is losing some ground among independents posted in analysis polls clutch my pearls maggie brooks goes negative posted on october 1 2012 by rottenchester the top ad is the sunshine and roses ad that maggie brooks released earlier this month accompanied by the fanfare of a press release be sure you have your smelling salts handy before you watch the bottom ad because it is the kind of ad that maggie s campaign manager was calling negative divisive and deceitful it is a bog standard anti incumbent ad highlighting the number of times slaughter voted for a house pay raise and calling out every time that slaughter voted to raise taxes one of the votes was in 1993 so maggie really revs up the wayback machine in this ad as with louise s ad highlighting the issues in maggie s tenure as county executive these are for the most part all facts except when brooks characterizes cap and trade as a massive tax hike which is false posted in ads finally a poll posted on september 27 2012 by rottenchester siena has louise slaughter up by 10 points over maggie brooks in ny 25 the internals pdf are interesting louise s favorables 59 are higher than maggie s 51 barack obama s favorables 55 are also higher than maggie s so running an anti obama campaign on brooks part or running away from obama by slaughter don t make a lot of sense voters believe slaughter would do a better job in every category jobs health care education afghanistan taxes and representing rochester in dc except the federal deficit where brooks has a slight edge louise has a 50 39 lead over brooks among independents and brooks leads slaughter 50 39 among independents 21 of republicans say they ll vote for slaughter versus 11 of democrats who support brooks only the western suburbs favor brooks 53 43 slaughter leads in the east 49 45 which is consistent with how those suburbs have voted in other congressional elections overall there s no good news for brooks in this poll unless there s a secret republican plan to double turnout in greece and chili it s consistent with the views i ve expressed here earlier ny 25 is a democratic district and maggie brooks success in low turnout races doesn t mean a lot in a presidential year that said this is just one poll national polling sites that make incredibly accurate predictions about the presidential race are powered by hundreds of polls that they combine to limit error it s very rare for a congressional race to get a fraction of the polling attention that even senate races are getting so i doubt we ll see many more polls in this race posted in polls a lonsberry decoder ring posted on september 14 2012 by rottenchester louise slaughter has released two ads the first one was a positive take on jobs and sunk without a trace the second one was a negative ad and got her a bunch of press including this typically well done 13wham piece by sean carroll which again shows that the ad is accurate but as far as i m concerned there s nothing better than bob lonsberry s sputtering meandering column yesterday reading it i wondered if i was reading his take on the race or his effort to show that he s a big enough drama queen to replace tyra banks on america s next top model here s a prime example because louise slaughter has shown her true colors after years of playing the role of the sugary sweet southern grandmother she has thrown this race into the gutter with the unleashing of a torrent of attack ads in order to understand this you need your lonsberry decoder bob says normal people say torrent a few sprinkles if it s weather or one advertisement if it s politics gale a little breeze is ruffling the trees flood there are puddles in the street and your feet might get wet armageddon snowstorm of more than 6 inches the rest of lonsberry s column is similarly ridiculous he claims that slaughter has done nothing for rochester what a member of congress can do for a city is always open to a great deal of interpretation as far as i can tell louise does what someone with her level of power and seniority can do for rochester a couple of recent examples are working with schumer to get financing for hickey freeman and putting an amendment in the defense authorization bill that allowed harris rf to get a 400 million contract anyone can do what bob does in that column which is to pick two random projects where there oughta be a law but it takes a special brand of lonsberry brass to generalize from two projects to slaughter does nothing one final point bob s burns about 900 words bemoning the awful state of this race telling us how desperate the slaughter campaign is etc he claims it s unfair to blame brooks for what happened while she was county exec but like every other press outlet in rochester he wasn t able to call those ads innacurate because they aren t posted in analysis boom goes louise s first negative ad posted on september 12 2012 by rottenchester louise slaughter sets the tone i think we were all expecting with this ad it s a laundry list of maggie brooks scandals as far as i can tell it s accurate and the brooks campaign hasn t disputed the content let s see what curt smith says political commentator curt smith a former speechwriter for george h w bush said slaughter is using the same approach and citing the same issues that sandra frankel did when she lost to brooks last year he said it s early for such an ad to appear i m somewhat surprised it is being tried by louise knowing the approach has failed smith said an early negative campaign works when two factors converge a vulnerable incumbent and an unknown challenger said smith and lovett incumbents will jump the gun to depict challengers in a negative light before they can define themselves but that s not the case in this race smith said the voters do know her opponent smith said by and large every poll and election result shows that voters don t think of maggie brooks as a dishonest person while there has been no recent public polling data on the race i think she senses trouble smith said of slaughter this sorry horseshit passes for analysis in the democrat and chronicle curt seems to forget as usual that the demographics in this race are completely different from the brooks frankel contest of course data is not curt s strong point so also as usual he just makes up trouble out of whole cloth even though no independent polling of this race has been released as for the bit of conventional wisdom that negative campaigns only work in the most rarefied of instances donnez moi un break the term negative campaign is so broad as to be meaningless and it ignores the substance of the ad so let s put away our smelling salts and look at the content of the ad in the context of this race brooks has been running almost entirely on her record as county executive slaughter can either ignore that and therefore tacitly agree that brooks tenure as county exec recommends her for slaughter s job or louise can disagree with it obviously louise disagrees and this ad is the form her disagreement took that s why they call it a campaign instead of a cotillion or a sunday drive in the park i expect we ll see something similar from brooks in the future if it is as accurate as this ad i think the voters in monroe county will survive posted in ads analysis video patronage accusation details posted on august 31 2012 by rottenchester the slaughter campaign sent out the details on maggie brooks husband s patronage job at the monroe county water authority it includes the most controversial accusation which is that brooks accompanied her husband to disneyland and san diego on the county s dime so i m including it after the break as for the politics of this like everything else in this race i don t see much new in the release people know that maggie got her husband a cushy job at the water authority and spouses accompany husbands on business trips the brooks response which called this gutter politics was a laugh since the accusation is a summary of a bunch of public records the whole gutter politics or politics of division line that the brooks campaign is pushing is a waste of time as far as i m concerned everyone knew this thing was going to be a battle royale and my guess is they d be disappointed if there weren t a few fireworks continue reading posted in analysis news more blurry photos from events may reveal brooks funders posted on august 30 2012 by clarke condé as a photographer i have always wished i could find a way to track down campaign money photographically fortunately yesterday everything became a lot easier when i got this message from the louise slaughter campaign clarke guess who louise s republican opponent maggie brooks was caught on film cheering with at the gop convention in tampa a picture says a thousand words and here she is with none other than david koch of the billionaire koch brothers and architect of almost every negative deceitful attack ad this year who knows how much money the koch brothers will pump into rochester to get their golden girl maggie elected could the slaughter campaign have found a way without looking at filings or disclosure reports from the fec to get at who is really backing brooks why else would somebody be at an event near another person if they weren t giving them millions of dollars i went into my archive and found a slew of other blurry photos of maggie brooks at events that show people near her could these blurry people caught on film near maggie brooks at some event pump millions into rochester to get her elected though he has not contributed to her campaign officially longtime rochester political insider darryl porter can be blurrily seen here with maggie brooks at an event of some kind photo by clarke condé while the urban league of rochester has not endorsed maggie brooks for congress she was obviously at an event where they had a sign photo by clarke condé though a longtime slaughter supporter democratic county legislator paul haney can be seen here listening intently to maggie brooks at a public event photo by clarke condé former congressman eric massa is seen in this blurry photo standing somewhat near maggie brooks what could it mean photo by clarke condé mayor tom richards seen here in a blurry photo at an event where maggie brooks also was is reported by some to have a lot of money and has been known to give money to candidates running for political office photo by clarke condé posted in news maggie at the convention posted on august 29 2012 by 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