Tammy Lee hits the airwaves next week.
Tammy Lee, the Independence Party candidate running for Congress in Minnesota's Fifth Congressional District, will start running tv ads next week. Lee says the ads will start running on August first. She isn't running the ads on the major network stations but bought time on cable. Lee wouldn't say how many times the ads will run or the total cost of the buy. She says the ads will run on Comedy Central's The Daily Show and the Colbert Report, The Home and Garden Network ESPN's SportsCenter and WWE Smackdown (it is the party of Jesse, isn't it?). You can watch some of the ads here.
We'll also post an interview with Lee regarding some of her policy positions later.
Lee dismissed the notion that MN's 5th is a DFL stronghold. She says voters haven't had a credible alternative. 7 DFLers are headed to the September primary. The candidates include State Representative Keith Ellison, former State Senator Ember Reichgott Junge, former party chair Mike Erlandson and Minneapolis City Council member Paul Ostrow. Republican Alan Fine and Green Party candidate Jay Pond are also running. The 5th District includes Minneapolis and several suburbs.
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