Pete Hoekstra's Super Bowl ad bust

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from the Detroit Free Press:



U.S. Senate candidate Pete Hoekstra's Super Bowl Sunday ad has drawn criticism from Republicans, Democrats, ministers and Asian Americans.

But former U.S. Rep. Hoekstra, a Holland Republican, defended the ad this morning, saying it was meant to draw a clear contrast between him and the senator he’s trying to defeat, Debbie Stabenow.

“We knew we were taking an aggressive approach on this, but we’re in a time when people are fed up with the spending and we wanted to capture that frustration with the spending,” Hoekstra said. “It hits Debbie smack-dab between the eyes on the area where she is most vulnerable.”

But the ad, which features an Asian woman riding a bike by a rice paddy and speaking broken English, drew immediate and critical response. ..................(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.freep.com/article/20120206/NEWS15/120206008/With-videos-Pete-Hoekstra-Super-Bowl-ad-slammed

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1. Holy crap is that ad offensive...

Any chance we just saw the end of Pete "Spend it Not" Hoekstra's political career?

Sid