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» Candidate/Organization: Majority Action
» Other Candidates Mentioned: Deborah Pryce
» Year: 2006
» State: Ohio
» Race: House, District 15 (About This Race)
» Party: NP
» Funded by: Independent Group
» Disseminations: TV, Web

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» Cues: Capitol Building, Cited sources, On-screen Writing
» Issues: Corruption, Leadership
» Tone: Negative
» Types: Attack
» Narrator: Male
» Language: English

Analysis

By factcheck.org: An ad by a new outside group, Majority Action, which is co-chaired by former Democratic National Committee co-chairman Joe Andrew, attacks Ohio Republican Rep. Deborah Pryce for traveling too much at the expense of "big special interests," weakening ethics rules and trying to block a probe of infamous and indicted Republican lobbyist Jack Abramoff.

But Pryce's overseas travel with private interests footing the bill stopped in January 2001, except for a journey to Israel in 2005, and her domestic trips have been fairly modest. The ad has it right when it says she voted to weaken ethics rules, though it's off-base when it says she wanted "to stop" an Abramoff investigation. Instead, she voted against a highly partisan resolution that would have urged the House ethics committee to open a probe of lawmakers and staff implicated in the Abramoff scandals. More...