Post by Logan on May 1, 2016 22:37:14 GMT -6
ATLANTIC CITY - The ad came over the radio airwaves like an unseen volley from afar:
"You've got to wonder what Assemblyman Chris Brown is thinking . . . "
Actually, listeners of WOND 1400AM talk radio didn't have to wonder, because Brown is a frequent guest on the station.
And the origins of the ad did not remain a mystery for long: Its super PAC sponsor, the Turnout Project out of Washington, D.C., was quickly outed as tied to the influential web of South Jersey Democratic power-broker George Norcross, who backs a state takeover of Atlantic City that Brown is resisting.
It was an election campaign-style attack on Brown, a Republican from Ventnor who is not up for reelection for another 18 months. It reverberated through the already headache-inducing echo chamber of Atlantic City, named Friday in the Wall Street Journal as "America's worst-rated town."
Read more at www.philly.com/philly/news/new_jersey/20160501_Attack_ad_stirs_up_Atlantic_City_radio_airwaves.html
"You've got to wonder what Assemblyman Chris Brown is thinking . . . "
Actually, listeners of WOND 1400AM talk radio didn't have to wonder, because Brown is a frequent guest on the station.
And the origins of the ad did not remain a mystery for long: Its super PAC sponsor, the Turnout Project out of Washington, D.C., was quickly outed as tied to the influential web of South Jersey Democratic power-broker George Norcross, who backs a state takeover of Atlantic City that Brown is resisting.
It was an election campaign-style attack on Brown, a Republican from Ventnor who is not up for reelection for another 18 months. It reverberated through the already headache-inducing echo chamber of Atlantic City, named Friday in the Wall Street Journal as "America's worst-rated town."
Read more at www.philly.com/philly/news/new_jersey/20160501_Attack_ad_stirs_up_Atlantic_City_radio_airwaves.html