The tight U.S. senate race in North Carolina between incumbent Republican Elizabeth Dole and Democrat Kay Hagan has intensified with a new ad that Dole is airing statewide, accusing her challenger of accepting campaign contributions from an atheist group.
Dole's campaign is hammering North Carolina State Senator Kay Hagan for attending a fundraiser on September 15, in Boston, Massachusetts, at the home of Woody Kaplan, an advisor to the Godless Americans Political Action Committee, a liberal Washington-based group whose goal is "mobilizing America's nonbelievers for political activism." Massachusetts Senator John Kerry also attended the event. The ad states: "A leader of the Godless Americans PAC recently held a secret fundraiser in Kay Hagan's honor…Godless Americans and Kay Hagan. She hid from cameras, took godless money. What did Hagan promise in return?" Woman's voice: "There is no God." Dole campaign spokesman Hogan Gidley believes the ad is relevant because the Godless Americans PAC seeks to remove references to God in currency and the pledge of allegiance and to eliminate Christmas as a federal holiday – issues, he notes, that routinely turn up in courts. "If elected to the senate, our opponent would have to vote to confirm Supreme Court justices and federal judges from the district court level and up," he explains. "And that's the battleground in which these kinds of arguments are fought." Gidley contends Hagan is not being truthful when she claims that she received no money from the Godless Americans and was not aware at the time that the fundraiser was being hosted by activists with the atheist group. "Kay Hagan goes to church. Kay Hagan teaches Sunday school. But that's what makes this so confusing," he adds. "The real question here is, 'Does Kay Hagan believe in the values of the Godless Americans PAC or does she put money above her principles?' Either way, it's not good for North Carolina." In response to the ad, Kay Hagan issued a statement saying, "I'm absolutely appalled by Elizabeth Dole's vile tactics. This is politics of the worst kind, and I know it has been rejected by North Carolinians at every level. It is so unbecoming of a woman like Elizabeth Dole. This is a fabricated, pathetic ad." To watch the entire Dole ad, visit http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1lf2vDk-4Ag. To view the longer ad by the National Republican Senatorial Committee, visit http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5AsdYWtKLY.
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