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Christie Ads Define Buono As Corzine’s Tax Raising Partner

State Senator Barbara Buono, the presumptive Democratic nominee for governor, continues to lag terribly in name recognition in various independent polls that show her losing the November general election to Governor Chris Christie by over thirty points.

Buono Dawn Quixote2Worse for ‘Dawn Quixote’ Buono, as she was dubbed by MSNBC’s Chris Matthews, she can’t raise the money needed to increase her name ID and message. Numerous media reports indicate that Buono will likely be the first major party nominee not to qualify for the maximum in New Jersey’s state matching fund program for gubernatorial candidates.

Christie, who has opted out of the state matching fund program for the primary, is spending $850,000 of the $6+million he has raised to boost Buono’s name ID and define her by her record of voting to raise taxes 154 times and as former Governor Jon Corzine’s budget chair.

The $850,000 will be spent on a 30 second TV commercial and a 1 minute radio ad.

UPDATE via Monmouth University pollster Patrick Murray’s twitter feed:

Buono camp responds to Christie attack ad with very, very long email about how she was not “Corzine” budget chair. Plus sundry other facts.

 

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Posted: May 13th, 2013 | Author: | Filed under: 2013 Election, 2013 Gubernatorial Politics, Barbara Buono, Christie Administration | Tags: , , | 2 Comments »

2 Comments on “Christie Ads Define Buono As Corzine’s Tax Raising Partner”

  1. But You See said at 10:46 am on May 13th, 2013:

    The BSTPG won’t go after Buono.

    They would rather attack Christie & Republicans who are trying to do the best they can do with a Democrat NJ Legislature.

    The would rather put up seriously flawed nutcase candidates that would probably lose in the General Election.

    Nothings perfect Babs. There is no Camelot.

    Signed,

    Silence Dogood, Redux

  2. Any ads said at 2:12 pm on May 14th, 2013:

    that correctly focus on the negative aspects of an opponent’s record, is the way to go,and works for me: it is smart, especially when running against a woman, that one not get personal at all.. Focusing on the $2.8 billion in new taxes,and beating the drum for months at all levels, got us to be “Florio Free in ’93” – we won a lot of elections up and down ballot with that phrase, just by truthfully reminding the voters of what he did to us. Sounds like a winner to me, who wants to be linked with that awful Corzine?..