{"id":10949,"date":"2018-06-07T11:39:50","date_gmt":"2018-06-07T15:39:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=10949"},"modified":"2018-06-07T11:39:50","modified_gmt":"2018-06-07T15:39:50","slug":"berliner-drops-trump-image-from-tv-ad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=10949","title":{"rendered":"Berliner Drops Trump Image from TV Ad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>By Adam Pagnucco.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Council Member Roger Berliner, who is running for Executive, has issued a statement saying that he is dropping the image of Donald Trump from his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=10774\">TV ad<\/a>.\u00a0 The ad both criticized businessman David Blair, who is also running for Executive, and made a case in favor of Berliner.\u00a0 We print Berliner&#8217;s statement below.<\/p>\n<p>*****<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Berliner-Logo-2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10951\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Berliner-Logo-2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"630\" height=\"207\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Berliner-Logo-2.png 630w, https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Berliner-Logo-2-300x99.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>June 6, 2018<\/p>\n<p><strong>BERLINER CAMPAIGN DROPS TRUMP IMAGE TO SHARPEN FOCUS ON BLAIR\u2019S LACK OF EXPERIENCE<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Berliner for County Executive Campaign will begin running a new version of its TV ad tomorrow on local cable stations designed to focus more attention on candidate David Blair\u2019s lack of government experience and use of his personal fortune to buy the election.<\/p>\n<p>The original ad showed a photo of Blair blending into a photo of President Trump.\u00a0 The overlay of Blair and Trump was designed to highlight the dangers of electing inexperienced business executives whose campaigns rely on lavish spending by a wealthy candidate.<\/p>\n<p>Berliner said, \u201cThe comparison to Trump when it comes to zero experience and trying to buy the election is completely valid.\u00a0 We made this change because the reaction to the Trump image was so intense that it began to distract from our main charge that David Blair is unqualified to be County Executive.\u00a0 This new version will keep the focus on Blair and make our message even more powerful.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Adam Pagnucco. Council Member Roger Berliner, who is running for Executive, has issued a statement saying that he is dropping the image of Donald Trump from his TV ad.\u00a0 The ad both criticized businessman David Blair, who is also running for Executive, and made a case in favor of Berliner.\u00a0 We print Berliner&#8217;s statement &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=10949\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Berliner Drops Trump Image from TV Ad<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[1938,1480],"class_list":["post-10949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-roger-berliner","tag-david-blair","tag-roger-berliner"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4mKJE-2QB","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10949"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10949\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10953,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10949\/revisions\/10953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}