Drew Voltura once again bests the NJ’s Beth Miller with his AdGate coverage. I can’t link to it, but I love this part:
“(Carney campaign manager David Hamrick) said (The Markell campaign) is attempting to use money to buy the election instead of engaging in a positive discussion of the issues,” he said.
Hilarious, because in the very next paragraph…
The Carney campaign would not provide details of its spending. Campaign spokesman Scott McConnell said it is the campaign’s policy not to discuss spending specifics.
But wait, Volturo does some reporting (take note News Journal, this is what journalism looks like) and finds…
In July, the campaign spent about $15,000 on a television commercial that aired Downstate, and it spent at least $22,446 on a radio ad that began airing Saturday.
By comparison, the Delaware Democratic Party has spent more than $53,000 on ads supporting Lt. Gov. Carney — who is the party’s endorsed candidate — including $13,000 for a 30-second TV commercial that begins airing on WBOC today.
I don’t know about you, but that tells me Carney is sucking air and is basically being propped up by the Delaware Democrats who are spending $5.00 to run Carney ads for every $3.00 being spent by the Carney campaign.
No wonder Scott McConnell didn’t want to talk about it.