First in 5th: Perriello campaign ad gets him dirty. Literally.
At first, the television spot looks like standard political fare. Congressman Tom Perriello is talking earnestly into the camera about jobs. Then you notice something a little different as he strolls through a dairy barn.
Is he really stepping into a cow pie? And why is Perriello under a desk stringing broadband cable? And, whoa, while riding in a cop car, he’s getting broadsided by a cup of coffee.
The spot ends with a dirt-streaked, coffee-stained Perriello again talking earnestly into the camera: “I’m Tom Perriello, and I support this message because I guarantee no one will work harder to bring jobs to Virginia.”
The 5th District Congressional race is one of the most hotly contested re-election races in the country, and it includes hard-hit Southside, which suffered deep unemployment even before Perriello snagged the job away from his predecessor, Republican Virgil Goode, by 727 votes in 2008. So do voters really (more)