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Democrat candidate for governor Lloyd Jackson is launching his second wave of
negative ads this week against his opponent Joe Manchin.
Direct mail fliers will hammer Jackson's new campaign message, "We can't trust
Joe Manchin."
Jackson started the assault on Manchin a few days ago with a series of negative
television ads.
The direct mail campaign shows the faces of smiling, happy children on the cover
reading, "Thousands of children needed health care." The inside of the flier
features a picture of a wailing baby and the words, "Children and seniors
depended on Joe Manchin to show up, but he didn't. We can't trust Joe Manchin."
The mailer will go to 175,000 West Virginia households.
Manchin says he will not respond to the "mudslinging" using vague issues
dredged from his being a state legislator.
He said "I am more interested in working toward a positive effort to move West
Virginia forward."
Former governor Gaston Caperton has lent his name to the campaign to tout the
Lincoln County Democrat.
Jackson's home county has not been favorable to the candidate, even selecting
a Republican write-in candidate when he was running for state senate.
Manchin says Jackson is the architect of school consolidation, which Jackson
denies, saying it has always been local choice. "Surely the people of West
Virginia will not believe that," said Manchin.
Jackson, whose polling numbers show him trailing, is apparently only getting
started with the negative campaign.
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