While Congressman Paul Ryan campaigns near Green Bay today as one half of the Republican presidential ticket, his 1st congressional re-election ad is playing in Southeast Wisconsin.
Released Wednesday in Milwaukee and Madison, the ad features Ryan speaking to a small group at a cafe about how the November election is the voters' chance to put America back on the right track.
"It focuses on the critical choice before voters this November and the importance of electing leaders who are capable of advancing solutions that get America back on track," campaign manager Kevin Seifert is quoted as saying in a story from WISN.
The same WISN story states Ryan's campaign confirmed that having a challenger - Democrat Rob Zerban - didn't influence the decision to start running ads because this is how a Ryan campaign is usually run.
Still, a Zerban campaign staffer told the news station that the size of the ad buy - reported to be $2 million - is a clear signal that Ryan knows he has a serious opponent.
"A $2 million ad buy, that's bigger then he has put up against any of his opponents, ever," Campaign Manager Al Benninghoff told WISN.
Ryan is in Wisconsin campaigning as the Vice President candidate. According to a story from our media partners at Fox 6, he is hosting a town hall meeting today in De Pere. to have lunch with firefighters there to commemorate 9/11, but he was not campaigning for either race during the stop.
On Tuesday, on Oct. 25. While Zerban's camp has said he's definitely interested in participating, neither candidate has responded yet to the invitation.
As the ABC News political blog notes, Ryan is not the first Vice Presidential candidate to also run for his existing seat. Vice President Joe Biden continued to run in 2008; Joe Lieberman ran two races in 2000; and so did Lyndon Johnson in 1960.
"And it’s worth noting- all of these men won those state races," the blog concludes.
lets explore Mr. Ryan's statements. "Americans" or "we" do not need a large government controlling them/us? limit what Government can do? Get on the right track? So the first thing that comes to my mind is why is Ryan's party is passing law after law limiting the rights and controlling the rights of "us" ? Heathcare, A women's right to choose, voting rights. In each of these cases they want to take away things "we" want by a good percent of "Us/We". This seems to contradictory to what Mr. Ryan is saying? Limited Government, so Mr. Ryan wants to limit what "Government can do and IS doing" So in the case of letting the banks and wall street do pretty much what they want , this is saying NOW the government setup to HELP the people can NOT help the people? Now the banks and wall street will be able to setup new mortgage gimmicks and take our money again and force us out of homes again as there WAS NO CONTROL ON THEM? Seems to be a common theme with the GOP, get ride of government so that Corporations who are NOT people and the wealthy can have free run while the rest of the working class pays the bills? This seems like another make you feel good about me, but if you think about what they are trying to do its really going to hurt.
I don't have an issue with Ryan running for two seats, that's a Ayn Rand-approved act of "rational self interest." Does anyone else find wanting to limit the form of government that We the People have fought and died for since the Revolutionary War as unpatriotic and seditious as I do? We don't need to make OUR voices smaller, we need to make the influence of special interests smaller. Why should some people get preferential treatment?
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/09/on-eve-of-911-anniversary-paul-ryans-opposition-to-first-responders-bill-revisited/ http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/09/11/1130324/-Paul-Ryan-Voted-AGAINST-9-11-First-Responders-3X-Romney-Failed-To-Thank-9-11-First-Responders Paul Ryan is an EXTREMIST and a liar.
You're right Bren. The largest special interest of all is government perpetuating itself at the expense of our diminishing liberty. Should be enough for even you to reject the party of big government.
He may call himself a Catholic, but he doesn't live as one, does he? http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/post/paul-ryan-fails----the-truth/2012/08/29/bbfe1eac-f254-11e1-b74c-84ed55e0300b_blog.html?tid=pm_pop http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_CVN_GOP_CONVENTION_FACT_CHECK?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2012-08-30-07-31-10 http://www.usnews.com/opinion/blogs/robert-schlesinger/2012/08/29/paul-ryan-repeats-auto-bailout-medicare-lies http://www.thenation.com/blog/169648/they-love-lies-paul-ryan-tells http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2012/08/30/paul-ryans-speech-in-three-words/ http://thinkprogress.org/election/2012/08/30/772921/6-worst-lies-in-paul-ryans-speech/?mobile=nc http://www.tnr.com/blog/plank/106730/ryan-most-dishonest-convention-speech-five-lies-gm-medicare-deficit-medicaid http://www.salon.com/2012/08/30/paul_ryans_brazen_lies/ http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2012/aug/29/paul-ryan/paul-ryan-said-president-obama-funneled-716-billio/
President Obama: • Killed Osama Bin Laden • Ended Iraq War • Killed more Al Qaeda leaders than any other President • Supported "Arab Spring" uprising Romney • None Romney: NO foreign policy experience in a very DANGEROUS world!