NY-26: Powers, Davis campaigns Slam Alice Kryzan’s New Ad
by Matt at Aug 26th, 2008
Jerry Zremski has an article today about the Alice Kryzan television ad, released yesterday. Not surprisingly, both Jon Powers’ and Jack Davis’s campaigns slammed the ad, which features actors resembling Powers and Davis lobbing insults at eachother and scuffling.
Not surprisingly, the Powers and Davis campaigns offered radically different reactions to the ad.
“It is unfortunate that Alice Kryzan is attacking Jon Powers when he is the only candidate talking to voters in all seven counties about his plans to bring good-paying jobs to Western New York, reduce our dependence on foreign oil and bring our troops home from Iraq safely, securely and soon,” said Victoria Dillon, a spokeswoman for Powers.
Meanwhile, Joy Langley, communications director for the Davis campaign, said the ad had “a plucky script.”
“If plucky scripts created jobs, we wouldn’t need Jack Davis in Congress,” she said. “But they don’t, and we do. Jack, not Jon or Alice, brings a lifetime of creating jobs and solving problems to the table.”
Anne Wadsworth, the manager of the Kryzan campaign, indicated the ad reflects a fundamental truth about the campaign.
Wadsworth has a valid point, while the campaigns of Jon Powers and Jack Davis couldn’t offer any real rebuttal to the ad. I think it’s a great ad and captures quite accurately the tone of the Democratic primary for the 26th District. It’s also another example of Jon Powers’ hypocrisy to criticize Kryzan for attacking him, when his latest ad attacks Jack Davis.
I think the ad effectively portrays Kryzan as a positive alternative for Democrats who are tired of same old left-wing smears and attacks that have definted this primary battle.
