Bean, McSweeney attack with negative ads.(News)

0 Comments | Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), October, 2006 | by Ryan, Joseph

Byline: Joseph Ryan Daily Herald Staff Writer Both Congresswoman Melissa Bean and Republican challenger David McSweeney are running TV ads that call the other's advertising a "lie" and a "gross misrepresentation." The latest is a McSweeney ad attacking Bean on Social Security reform, saying she will cut benefits and raise Social Security taxes.

The AARP is coming to the Barrington Democrat's defense and plans a rebuttal mailing to its 50,000 members in the 8th Congressional District saying McSweeney's ad is misleading. At the same time, a Bean ad uses the comments of a newspaper columnist to say the "press" called McSweeney's ad on illegal immigration a "gross misrepresentation." "I stand by my ad 100 percent," said McSweeney, a former investment...