Summary

REPUBLICAN U-S SENATE CANDIDATE NORM COLEMAN TALKS ABOUT HIS LAWSUIT AGAINST WELLSTONE AND THE DEMOCRATS FOR NEGATIVE CAMPAIGN ADS

Source CONUS Archive
Record ID 237647
Story Slug Coleman - Reax
Location Moorhead, MN
Format VOSOT
Date 09/24/2002
Archive Time 29:45
TRT 1:02
Supers Moorhead, Minnesota Norm Coleman, U-S Senate Candidate
Video Description SHOT OF AD, PRESSER B-ROLL, MAN AT PODIUM, SOT, PEOPLE SITTING AROUND LISTENING
Description REPUBLICAN U-S SENATE CANDIDATE NORM COLEMAN TALKS ABOUT HIS LAWSUIT AGAINST WELLSTONE AND THE DEMOCRATS FOR NEGATIVE CAMPAIGN ADS
Script (LEAD) THE MINNESOTA SENATE CAMPAIGN BETWEEN PAUL WELLSTONE AND NORM COLEMAN TURNED EVEN MORE NASTY (TAKE VO) COLEMN'S CAMPAIGN TODAY FILED A LAWSUIT AGAINST WELLSTONE FOR THIS AD IT'S A CRIMINAL COMPLAINT THAT SAYS THE AD IS FALSE AND BREAKS THE LAW THE ISSUE IS OVER COLEMAN'S POSITION ON SOCIAL SECURITY THE AD SAYS COLEMAN IS FOR PARTIAL PRIVATIZATION OF SOCIAL SECURITY COLEMAN WAS IN MOORHEAD TODAY WHERE HE SAYS THE AD DISTORTS HIS POSITION (SOT - COLEMAN You gotta be honest with people, you've crossed the line when you deliberately misrepresent, when you deliberately scare folks by telling them that something's gonna happen to them that isn't happening, you gotta say no stop, that's the worst kind of negative campaign) (VO CONTINUES) A SPOKESMAN FOR WELLSTONE'S CAMPAIGN TONIGHT CALL THIS A JOKE LAWSUIT JIM FARRELL SAYS COLEMAN IS LYING ABOUT HIS POSITION HE SAYS COLEMAN FILED THE SAME KIND OF LAWSUIT AGAINST SKIP HUMPHREY IN 19-98 HE SAYS IT'S A PATTERN WHERE COLEMAN TAKES A POSITION ON AN ISSUE IT BECOMES UNPOPULAR AND COLEMAN TURNS AROUND AND SUES HIS OPPONENT FOR POINTING IT OUT FARELL SAYS THE LAWSUIT AGAINST HUMPHREY WENT NOWHERE AND HE EXPECTS THE LAWSUIT AGAINST WELLSTONE TO GO NOWHERE TOO RECAP
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