Misleading Roberts ad

Like many St. Louis voters, I got a billboard-sized flyer in the mail this week from Mike Roberts, Jr., scion of the Roberts political family and Dem candidate for State Representative in the 64th District (mine, incidentally). Roberts is looking to unseat Rachel Storch, a hard-working, award-winning, popular incumbent. Lots of luck with that! Roberts seems to have acknowledged that with no resume and little in the way of compelling ideas - with nothing but his last name, in fact - his only option is to go negative. Hence the unimaginative deception of the flyer -

Over the last few years Rachel Storch voted against funding healthcare programs while receiving Health Insurance paid for by YOU.

- in which Roberts complains that Storch opposed health care funding measures that were passed unaminously or nearly so by the State Senate…the Republican-controlled, Matt Blunt-allied, Axe Gang State Senate that was doing no favors for Missouri voters. Yeah, that’s a crowd I’d want my state rep to fall in with.

Arch City Chronicle calls out Roberts for his duplicity so I don’t have to:

Campaigns Go Negative, Lie to Voters

In 64th District, Mike Roberts Jr. has mailed this piece accusing Rep. Rachel Storch of voting against healthcare.

In truth, she voted against the Republican budgets which cut healthcare funding.

Oops. Guess Roberts forgot to provide context.

Not sure which notion is worse: that this flyer is Roberts’ own brainchild, or that he uncritically accepted bad campaign advice from some advisor. Either way, if I actually needed another reason to vote for Storch over Roberts, this would do it.

Note to Roberts: Next time around, stick to issues and to boosting yourself, rather than trying (and not very well) to drag someone else down.

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