Wednesday, March 14, 2012

Clinton's negative ads helped defeat me, Tsongas charges

NAPLES, Fla. Former Sen. Paul E. Tsongas lashed out Saturday atGov. Bill Clinton, saying Clinton's false and negative ads helpeddefeat him in his bid for the Democratic presidential nomination.

Tsongas, speaking before the American Association of Advertisingagencies' annual meeting here, called for advertising leaders to helpform a "watchdog group" to monitor political advertising with thegoal of reducing false and negative ads.

Tsongas said that in his campaign, he was "being defined bynegative advertising, most of it misleading, by my opponent. . . .That's what was killing us."

Though the press would write that the ads were misleading, hesaid, that …

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