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27. Grimes zeroes in on women’s issues with latest ad

Wed Jul 30, 2014, 09:10 PM

Jul 2014

The Daily Independent
Ashland, Kentucky
July 30, 2014
Grimes zeroes in on women’s issues with latest ad
By RONNIE ELLIS
CNHI News Service

FRANKFORT — Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Alison Lundergan Grimes is out with a third television ad posing questions from Grimes’ supporters to Republican incumbent U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell.

This time the ad focuses on women’s issues — two days after release of the Bluegrass Poll which showed Grimes leading McConnell among women by only one point.

The ad follows the same folksy format as two earlier ones: Grimes is seated alongside of Ilene Woods of Lynch, Ky., in front of a house. Playing in the background is the same whimsical music used in the two previous ads.

“Senator, why did you vote two times against the Violence Against Women Act and against enforcing equal pay for women?” Woods asks, looking into the camera. After a lengthy pause with sound of wind chimes in the background, Grimes says: “I can never get him to answer this one either.”....

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Natalie Tennant for West Virginia, Alison Lundergan Grimes for Kentucky [View all] theHandpuppet Jul 2014 OP

It's in everyone's interest to send these two Democratic candidates to the Senate. Tanuki Jul 2014 #1

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Doesn't look encouraging, does it. theHandpuppet Jul 2014 #26

Grimes zeroes in on women’s issues with latest ad theHandpuppet Jul 2014 #27