Saturday, November 21, 2009
Replay Begich's Campaign Ad Claiming To Have Eliminated Anchorage’s Deficits.
Begich claims he warned the Anchorage Assembly of looming deficits. If he did so at the time he said he did, he did so while simultaneously running campaign ads advising voters that he personally had eliminated
Click below to see Begich’s quote in today's Anchorage Daily News (
Then click below that to see Begich’s news release saying that he did inform the Assembly.
Farther below, click to see the campaign ads he ran at the same time, claiming that
Clearly, either the claims Begich made in his campaign were false, or the claims Begich is making today are false. If Begich did advise the Assembly of looming deficits as claimed, then he was clearly lying to voters in his campaign ad. (View the ad)
If, as the Municipal Attorney claims, Begich did not advise the Assembly then, he is lying to the Assembly today.
By necessity, one or the other of Begich’s conflicting statements has to be false.
The ADN story:
http://www.adn.com/mark_begich/story/1018683.html
When the Municipal Attorney said Begich had failed to advise the Assembly of looming deficits, Begich responded by saying any suggestion that he had not informed the Assembly was “absurd” and claims to have provided proof through documents. (Click below to see Begich news release)
http://media.adn.com/smedia/2009/11/18/18/Wheeler_report_react.source.prod_affiliate.7.pdf
Two campaign ads claiming to have eliminated the deficit:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jr397LP9EH0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWIkiG7CcOE&feature=channel