Now you see it, now you don't.
Hours after dropping a nearly half-million dollar TV buy late into the increasingly competitive special election in New York's 9th District, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee has edited their new advertisement, removing the image of a plane flying dangerously close to the Manhattan skyline just days before the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
Hours after dropping a nearly half-million dollar TV buy late into the increasingly competitive special election in New York's 9th District, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee has edited their new advertisement, removing the image of a plane flying dangerously close to the Manhattan skyline just days before the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
The original spot, which begins airing on New York City broadcast tomorrow through Monday in advance of the September 13 special election, had featured a supposed jet owned by Republican Bob Turner zooming across the NYC skyline touting a gaffe the former cable TV executive had made in a debate this week, saying he had never met a tax loophole he didn't like. The ad was not scheduled to air on Sunday, the 10th anniversary of the attacks.
Democrats have jumped into the special election to replace disgraced former Rep. Anthony Weiner, D-N.Y., after polls have shown that Turner is closing the gap in the deeply Democratic district against Assemblyman David Weprin.
But late Thursday, the ad mysteriously disappeared from YouTube, only to be later replaced with a new ad that scrubbed the city skyline, replacing it with clear skies.
DCCC spokeswoman Jennifer Crider explained the change in a statement: "The independent expenditure made a small tweak to remove the brief image of the skyline to not distract from the message that Republican Bob Turner hasn't met a corporate tax loophole he didn't like while pushing drastic cuts to Social Security and Medicare."
Still, national Republicans were all too quick to point out the swift fix as further evidence of a fledgling Democratic campaign that's been beset by several gaffes by Weprin himself, whom many Democrats are now beginning to paint as a lackluster candidate responsible for endangering their lock on the Queens-Brooklyn district.
"You see they CHANGED the ad? DCC-Chaos," one national GOP source wrote.
Watch the new ad after the jump:
Democrats have jumped into the special election to replace disgraced former Rep. Anthony Weiner, D-N.Y., after polls have shown that Turner is closing the gap in the deeply Democratic district against Assemblyman David Weprin.
But late Thursday, the ad mysteriously disappeared from YouTube, only to be later replaced with a new ad that scrubbed the city skyline, replacing it with clear skies.
DCCC spokeswoman Jennifer Crider explained the change in a statement: "The independent expenditure made a small tweak to remove the brief image of the skyline to not distract from the message that Republican Bob Turner hasn't met a corporate tax loophole he didn't like while pushing drastic cuts to Social Security and Medicare."
Still, national Republicans were all too quick to point out the swift fix as further evidence of a fledgling Democratic campaign that's been beset by several gaffes by Weprin himself, whom many Democrats are now beginning to paint as a lackluster candidate responsible for endangering their lock on the Queens-Brooklyn district.
"You see they CHANGED the ad? DCC-Chaos," one national GOP source wrote.
Watch the new ad after the jump: