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Politics : Did Slick Boink Monica? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Zoltan! who wrote (5647)	2/10/1998 1:27:00 AM
From: Zoltan!	Respond to of 20981

Yup. Two candidates for Illinois secretary of state launched their advertising for the March 17 primary, with Democrat Tim McCarthy and Republican Robert Churchill using radio in an attempt to sway voters to their campaigns. Neither camp would divulge how much money they're spending on the ads, but both 60-second spots reflect the strategy the candidates will be using the next few weeks McCarthy's ad plays up the fact that he was the Secret Service agent who was shot and wounded during the 1981 assassination attempt on former President Ronald Reagan. But campaign spokesman Kevin Lampe said Wednesday that McCarthy has drawn the line about how much future television ads will rely on that incident. The candidate "does not want to see a videotape of that (shooting) in an ad," Lampe said. chicago.tribune.com