Mass. Senate Race Heats Up: Gomez Calls Markey ‘Pond Scum’
TOM KLUDT 10:32 AM EDT, FRIDAY MAY 24, 2013
Gabriel Gomez, the Republican nominee in the Massachusetts special U.S. Senate election, pushed back sharply against a tough new attack ad, calling Democratic opponent Rep. Ed Markey (D-MA) "pond scum."
Gomez denounced the ad, in which the Republican's picture is placed next to one of Osama bin Laden, while highlighting his own career at a Navy SEAL.
"I don't think there's anything more offensive," Gomez told a local news reporter. "You know I've got four young kids, and they gotta sit there and gotta see an ad with their dad -- who served honorably, talk to anybody I served with -- whether as a pilot or as a SEAL, anybody I worked with. And for him to be as dirty and low, pond scum, like to put me up next to bin Laden, he's just gotta be called what he is. It's that simple."
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Markey Campaign Fires Back At Gomez’s ‘Desperate Attack’
TOM KLUDT 10:58 AM EDT, FRIDAY MAY 24, 2013
The increasingly tense Massachusetts special Senate race continued to heat up Friday, with Rep. Ed Markey's (D-MA) campaign firing back at Republican Gabriel Gomez's scathing rebuke of a new ad.
On Thursday, Gomez denounced an ad in which his picture is positioned next to one of Osama bin Laden while calling Markey "pond scum." Andrew Zucker, a spokesman for Markey, said the attack is a sign of Gomez's desperation.
"After spending the past week leveling completely baseless attacks against Ed Markey that were thoroughly debunked by Massachusetts newspapers and nonpartisan fact checkers, Gabriel Gomez has reached a new low," Zucker said in a statement provided to TPM. "Unfortunately for Gomez, his desperate attack will do nothing to distract from his opposition to an assault weapons ban and limits on high-capacity magazines, or his refusal to release his 2005 tax return that would reveal how much he pocketed from taking a questionable $280,000 tax break on his Cohasset home."
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