Ad sponsor: Wil Armstrong
Producer: Colorado Media Group
Type and length: 30-second TV ad
Airing: Denver network TV
6th Congressional District Republican candidate Wil Armstrong rolled out his second and third television ads this week. One of the ads, “Let’s Change the Way Congress Does Business,” is a reworking of his first ad that introduces the candidate to voters. “Career Businessman” more concretely hits Armstrong’s key argument: that he is a political outsider who can shake up Washington. The ad uses gas-price woes to make the claim.
Claim: “Four candidates for Congress. Three career politicians. One career businessman. That’s me.”
Fact: The ad opens with a direct shot at Armstrong’s competitors for the Republican nomination: Secretary of State Mike Coffman and state Sens. Steve Ward and Ted Harvey. All three have spent considerable time in local and state politics, but they also have emphasized their real-world work. Harvey, for instance, worked more than a decade in the mortgage banking industry. Meanwhile, though Armstrong has never held elected office, he is not new to politics. His father is Bill Armstrong, who served as a U.S. representative and senator from Colorado for 16 years.
Claim: “We need to increase our domestic supply (of oil), but the career politicians in Congress say no to more drilling.”
Fact: It depends what time frame you look at. Congress has recently been mired in debate over the benefits of new domestic drilling. In 2006, though, Congress gave bipartisan approval to a bill that expanded offshore drilling in the Gulf of Mexico.
Claims are: MOSTLY TRUE
John Ingold, The Denver Post
