The national Democratic Governors Association promptly answered anti-O’Malley TV ads with an ad painting former Maryland governor Bob Ehrlich as a bastion of big business interests.
“For the last four years [Ehrlich] worked as a hired gun for big corporations, even a bank that took billions form a taxpayer-funded bailout,” warns the ad, which began airing across the Washington region Wednesday. ”Ehrlich sides with corporate executives again and again and again.”
Gov. Martin O’Malley is the vice chairman of the Democratic Governors Association.
The ad hit the air less than 24 hours after the Republican Governors Association released an ad criticizing a bill Gov. Martin O’Malley signed in 2007 that enacted a number of tax increases. The Republicans’ ad also accuses the O’Malley administration of doubling unemployment and driving thousands of businesses out of the state.
Both national governors groups have committed to funneling millions into the Maryland governor race, which polls are showing is neck-and-neck.
The DGA’s ad reads:
Four
years
ago,
Bob
Ehrlich
got
fired
as
Governor
of
Maryland — for
good
reason.
First,
he
protected
tax
loopholes
for
giant
cable
companies.
Then,
he
let
utilities
jack
up
our
rates
72 percent. And
for
the
last
four
years,
he
worked
as
a
hired
gun
for
big
corporations,
even
a
bank
that
took
billions
from
a
taxpayer
funded
bailout.
Ehrlich
sides
with
corporate
executives
again
and
again
and
again.
Tell
Bob
Ehrlich:
Big
banks
and
billionaires
don’t
need
help.
Middle-
class
Marylanders
do.
