A new radio advertisement featuring President Barack Obama singing Sue Minter’s praises is set to debut on Vermont radio stations Wednesday morning.
The Democratic gubernatorial candidate has purchased $10,500 worth of air time to run the ad, according to a disclosure filed Tuesday with the Secretary of State’s Office.
“Sue has the right ideas about creating an economy that works for all Vermonters — not corporations or the wealthy,” Obama says in the ad. “And she’s the right choice for middle class families.”
The president also gives a shout-out to Vermont’s congressional delegation.
“Vermont has a great team in Bernie Sanders, Patrick Leahy and Peter Welch,” Obama says. “That’s why they’ve all endorsed Sue Minter, and I hope you join me and them in supporting her.”
Listen to the ad here:
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I am deeply dismayed by the sudden attempt by Planned Parenthood of Vermont to portray Phil Scott as someone who would attack a womans right to have an abortion. The announcer, Vicki Hart of Burlington, then attempts to vilify him by calling him just a typical Republican. This is politics of the lowest order.
For the record, we typical Republicans in the Vermont State Senate have voted to support the principles of Roe v. Wade in a resolution that has been offered at the commencement of each biennium. Phil Scott also voted for that resolution when he was a state senator. Sue Minter knows that. Sue, I know you cannot control the Planned Parenthood PAC, but allowing this ad to continue running without challenging it places an obstacle in front of any claim to be able to work across the aisle. I respectfully ask that you publicly disavow that ad.
Senator Benning, I am deeply dismayed that you keep spamming the exact same comment over every story here at Seven Days (and at other websites).
But since you seem intent on posting it repeatedly, I’ll post the same response to your point that I’ve posted in the other stories:
Senator Benning, you seem to think being “pro-choice” is about nothing more than saying you’re opposed to Roe v. Wade being overturned.
But, as we’ve seen around the country, even with Roe standing as law, anti-choice Republican state legislatures have done their very best to make that constitutional right meaningless by enacting a series of measures that limit that right in many ways, making abortion virtually inaccessible for many women in those states.
A politician, like Phil Scott, can/must claim to be “pro-choice” because they know a Republican can’t win in Vermont unless they are seen as socially moderate.
But real “pro-choice” politicians don’t support legislation designed to make it harder for some women to control their own bodies – be that teenage girls, women struggling with difficult late term issues, or poor women who can’t afford it.
Real “pro-choice” politicians don’t get recommended for office by anti-choice groups.
And real “pro-choice” politicians don’t endorse a Presidential candidate like Marco Rubio who opposes all abortion rights (including no exception for rape or incest), who were willing to close down the government over Planned Parenthood Funding, and who pledge to appoint Supreme Court justices who would overturn the very “Roe v. Wade” decision that he claims to support.
Planned Parenthood is doing a public service by alerting Vermont voters to the contradictions in Phil Scott’s “pro-choice” claim. The fact that Republicans are protesting and squealing about it just shows that they know how tenuous Scott’s claim to be “pro-choice” really is.
More partisan hackery by the reliable terjeanderson.