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Thursday, October 09, 2008

Republicans Cancel House Ad Buys

By Sue Major Holmes
Associated Press
      The National Republican Congressional Committee has canceled advertising buys with Albuquerque television stations, but officials at the stations said Thursday none of the canceled buys were aimed at a particular candidate.
    "They don't stipulate what the ad is (in advance). ... I can't tell you it was designated for a specific candidate," said Jeff McCallister, director of sales for KRQE.
    Susan Hern, assistant to the national sales manager for KOB, echoed that.
    "We can't say they are specific for any candidate. We have no way of knowing until the ad really starts," she said. "It doesn't say in the contract."
    The campaign of Democratic 1st Congressional District candidate Martin Heinrich contended the canceled television ads — two weeks out of a three-week buy — were a vote of no confidence by the national GOP in Republican candidate Darren White.
    But White's campaign said the national party has canceled television ads in other states as well. National reports say Republican House and Senate committees are pulling out of several places, said Stephen Schatz, spokesman for White.
    "We always knew the NRCC ad budget was not the most prolific, so we always anticipated when we were doing our fundraising that anything the NRCC would do would be in addition to what we did," Schatz said.
    Ken Spain, press secretary for the NRCC in Washington, D.C., said Thursday the committee doesn't comment on strategy.
    New Mexico's 1st District race, he said, "remains a high-profile race and we plan to make the case to voters that there is a clear choice between Darren White ... and Martin Heinrich."
    Last month, the national Republicans' Senate campaign arm called off television ads that were to air in New Mexico to support Steve Pearce in the run-up to Election Day.
    The National Republican Senatorial Committee's decision to cancel the spots reflected its priorities during a tough year for the GOP, with the party lagging badly in fundraising and resigned to losing seats in the Senate.
    The NRSC pulled the New Mexico ads a little more than a week after Sen. John Ensign, R-Nev., the committee's chairman, announced he would scale back advertising in battleground states because Republican senators haven't contributed enough money to compete with Democrats.

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