NY-26: DCCC Runs False Attack Ad Against Chris Lee for Kryzan
by Matt at Sep 22nd, 2008
The DCCC (which has added Alice Kryzan to their Red To Blue program following Jon Powers’ defeat in the primary) is attacking Chris Lee in a new television ad that I just caught the other day.
The ad accuses Chris Lee of “employing labor in China.”
This, of course, is a blatant lie. No jobs form Chris Lee’s company were transferred overseas. The company expanded to international markets, but no jobs were lost here in Western New York, no jobs were ever exported to China. The company employees over 350 people in Western New York. If Alice Kryzan and the DCCC think it’s a bad thing that when a local company is successful enough to be able to compete internationally, then I think they are the ones who have some explaining to do.
After the ad came out, ECGOP Chairman Jim Domagalski issued a statement:
“Kryzan should be ashamed of herself for this blatant hypocrisy,” said Erie County Republican Chairman Jim Domagalski. ”Kryzan needs to denounce these ads as a complete and utter distortion of Chris’s record as a successful business leader who has actually created good paying jobs here in Western New York. I dare ask the question, how many jobs has Alice Kryzan created?
“Alice Kryzan has said that Washington insiders shouldn’t select the person Western New Yorkers are going to send to Congress. Alice Kryzan needs to stand up and denounce these negative attack ads and live by her promise to turn away this outside liberal, special interest help.”
If Alice Kryzan wants to make job creation an issue of this campaign, I think that’s a debate the Chris Lee campaign will want to have. Only one candidate in this race has a record of creating jobs in Western New York…
…and it ain’t Alice Kryzan.
So where’s the lie, Matt? Did the ad say he exported jobs overseas? Or employ people overseas? Cause those are two different statements.
Domagalski doesn’t seem to mind ads distorting Democrats positions or records, does he?
For some reason, I’m not feeling bad for “your guy” on this one.
As a funny FYI - the captcha phrase for this post is Govern Kennels.
Wow - tubby Domglowski snaps over an attack ad - yet he ran a press conference where no one showed up and attacked Powers for War Kids Relief which was full of lies.
Where was the outrage then tubby?
I thought it was a dumb ad and reminded me of the ads done by outsiders during the Higgins / Naples race several years ago. With that said, either the company did or didn’t employ people in China for manufacturing purposes, and if it did, then the ad is accurate. The logical question that follows would be, why?
Contrary to popular opinion, there are ways to manufacture products in the US - and even in New York - and yet still remain competitive in the international market.
And Domagalski’s outrage is, as usual, packed with self-righteous, disingenuous hilarity.
Buffalo Pundit,
There are reasons why foreign automobile manufacturers open up plants in the United States. By manufacturing their product here, where a market for it exists, they reduce the costs involved in production, avoid importing costs, etc. etc.
It’s just commsense economics. The DCCC ad is grossly misleading by suggesting that once existing in WNY were moved to China. That’s just not true.