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Attack ads target candidate’s work in Iraqi Kurdistan for energy firm

By Mike Saccone | Wednesday, August 20, 2008, 10:16 AM

Just as energy is shaping up to be the top issue in the race to replace outgoing U.S. Sen. Wayne Allard, R-Colo., independent political groups have picked up on one candidate’s Kurdish connection in two new attack ads.

Both of the ads, linked to at Coloradopols, attack Republican Bob Schaffer for his work in Iraqi Kurdistan on behalf of his former employer, Denver-based Aspect Energy.

UPDATE: Schaffer’s campaign manager, Dick Wadhams, has fired back at the ads in an interview with The Rocky Mountain News: “That is the most reprehensible and disgusting attack that could be leveled.”

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Tired of attack ads already? Well, sorry to break the news to you, but this is but the beginning of what pollster Lori Weigel called, in a Rocky Mountain News article, the “nuclear winter coming in terms of the negativity of this campaign.”

*Schaffer photo from The Rocky Mountain News.

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