Begich (dem senator from Alaska) just released a complete BS ad, could tip race

Sen. Begich wrongly ties Republican opponent to horrific crime in inflammatory ad

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Sen. Mark Begich, the incumbent Democrat from Alaska, has been forced to pull a television ad that said his Republican opponent’s actions as the state attorney general led to a gruesome murder -- a serious charge based on paper-thin evidence.

Begich released an attack ad the Friday before Labor Day that said Dan Sullivan was soft on sex crime during his 18-month tenure as attorney general. Begich and Sullivan are locked in a toss-up race, one of several that could decide which party controls the Senate come November.

So although Active’s plea agreement and sentencing happened in 2010, while Sullivan was in office, the mistake that led to Active’s shorter sentence happened more than a year earlier. (At the time, Sullivan was on active duty for the U.S. Marine Corps, according to his campaign.)

Additionally, it’s highly unlikely that Sullivan was personally involved with Active’s case and plea agreement at all, said John Skidmore, director of the Department of Law’s criminal division. The state handles about 40,000 cases each year, at least half of which are felonies -- so it’s "unrealistic" for an attorney general to be involved with individual cases, he said.

"There is no way that (any attorney general) would be involved in that sort of decision at that level at that time," Skidmore said.

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Begich tried to pull a H.W. Bush/Willie Horton, and it is complete horse shite. This is going to backfire.

Begich must be really feeling the heat to run a lying, despicable ad against Sullivan. The difference between his ad and the Willie Horton ad was that Dukakis played a major role in Willie Horton's release

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Not only was it factually wrong, they also cropped evidence to remove the true signatories. Basically caught at dirty politics. Not exactly a glowing endorsement for trustworthiness.