Summary

Source CONUS Archive
Record ID 75934
Story Slug GOP AD BLITZ (1994)
Location WASHINGTON, DC
Format PKG W/ TAG
Date 10/27/1994
Archive Time 1:58
TRT 1:43
Supers GOP AD WASHINGTON, DC HALEY BARBOUR, REP NAT'L CHAIRMAN LLYOD BENTSEN, TREASURY SEC GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS, PRES AIDE MARY MILLER, REPORTING
Video Description (FOR AN ADDITIONAL FEE, THE REPORTER IS LICENSABLE) COMMERCIAL ADS (NOT LICENSABLE), SOTS
Script LEAD: WITH THE NOVEMBER ELECTIONS LESS THAN TWO WEEKS AWAY THE GOP UNVEILED A TWO MILLION DOLLAR TV AD CAMPAIGN TODAY BRINGING THE USUAL CHEERS FROM PARTY REGULARS AND DENOUNCEMENTS FROM DEMOCRATS MARY MILLER HAS THE STORY FROM WASHINGTON SCRIPT: (NAT SND) AND THAT SOMETHING IS TO SEND THE CLINTON CONGRESS HOME ACCORDING TO THE LATEST TWO MILLION DOLLAR TV AD CAMPAIGN THE GOP HAS UNVEILED THE THREE ADS, TO AIR IN 25 STATES FROM NOW THROUGH ELECTION DAY, ATTACK DEMOCRATS NOT ONLY AS BEING TAX AND SPEND LIBERALS BUT ALSO FOR DISTORTING THE REPUBLICAN AGENDA IN THEIR RECENT AD CAMPAIGN (BITE/BARBOUR) AND BARBOUR TAKES IT A STEP FURTHER (BITE/BARBOUR) HYPOCRACY AS REFLECTED IN ANOTHER AD THAT ACCUSES DEMOCRATS OF CONSIDERING THE SAME CUTS, ACCORDING TO A RECENTLY LEAKED ADMINISTRATION MEMO BUT OVER AT THE WHITE HOUSE, THE TREASURY SECRETARY WITH A FORMER SOCIAL SECURITY ADMINISTRATOR IN TOW STUCK TO HIS GUNS SAYING REPUBLICANS WOULD HAVE TO CUT SENIOR PROGRAMS TO PAY FOR THEIR AGENDA, AND DEMOCRATS HAVE NO INTENTION OF DOING THAT (BITE/BENTSEN) ALL THIS COMES AT A TIME WHEN A NEW POLL SHOWS PRESIDENT CLINTON'S APPROVAL RATING MARKEDLY UP AND VOTERS MORE LIKELY TO VOTE DEMOCRATIC THAN REPUBLICAN AND THE WHITE HOUSE CLAIMS NOT TO BE WORRIED THE NEW GOP ADS WILL BLOW IT (BITE/STEPHANOPOULOS) AND BARBOUR TAKES IT A STEP FURTHER (BITE/BARBOUR) HYPOCRACY AS REFLECTED IN ANOTHER AD THAT ACCUSES DEMOCRATS OF CONSIDERING THE SAME CUTS, ACCORDING TO A RECENTLY LEAKED ADMINISTRATION MEMO BUT OVER AT THE WHITE HOUSE, THE TREASURY SECRETARY WITH A FORMER SOCIAL SECURITY ADMINISTRATOR IN TOW STUCK TO HIS GUNS SAYING REPUBLICANS WOULD HAVE TO CUT SENIOR PROGRAMS TO PAY FOR THEIR AGENDA, AND DEMOCRATS HAVE NO INTENTION OF DOING THAT (BITE/BENTSEN)
Not everything listed in the CONUS Archive is necessarily licensable Reporter sound/image is not licensable
}