PUB DEF EXCLUSIVE
Here are Aldermanic President candidate Lewis Reed’s latest campaign commercials which started airing this week.
Reed is in the last 6 days of a close campaign with incumbent Jim Shrewsbury to be decided by Tuesday’s primary election.
* These spots were written and co-produced by A.D. French & Associates
February 28th, 2007 at 7:12 am
We are finally beginning to see our investment in St. Louis paying off and this alderman puts out a tv commercial for the whole metropolitan area to see saying crime is up and we’re the most dangerous city in America?
Thanks a lot buddy!
February 28th, 2007 at 7:42 am
My thoughts exactly. I was watching this video and wondering how much it is going to set the city back.
February 28th, 2007 at 9:36 am
These ads are bad. Really bad.
February 28th, 2007 at 10:16 am
I just watched both ads and didn’t see Alderman Reed say that we’re the most dangerous city in America. He did mention that crime, racial tensions and under performing schools are all isues that need to be addressed. I bet if you asked around town what the 3 key issues on St. Louisans’ minds are, they would tell you the same. I’m glad that the Alderman is willing to take on tough issues. I just wish we had more than a status quo candidate that’s been occupying that office the last 4 years.
February 28th, 2007 at 10:38 am
Sounds like the Shrewsbury staffers are especially bitter this morning. Probably because they lost the Post endorsement.
February 28th, 2007 at 10:42 am
Shrewsbury staffers may be bitter but they can rest assure that their candidate has a better product both in mail and commercials. Reed’s commercial is lackluster and leaves much to be desired. It looks like he is reading and that he may need glasses.
February 28th, 2007 at 10:49 am
I like the look of Reed’s ads. They are simple and really let me know what he is thinking. They are a lot better than those New York city ads that Shrewsbury is running. I heard his campaign manager was from Washington DC. Doesn’t Shrewsbury do ANYTHING to support St. Louis?!?!?
February 28th, 2007 at 10:51 am
Shrewsabury’s “Leave it to Beaver” commercial sucks. It’s as phony as he is.
February 28th, 2007 at 11:26 am
Lewis had been telling people early in his campaign that people think the crime rate is worse than it really is. Now he’s telling us that we’re the worst crime city in the country. i’m not sure which is worse — flip flopping (like Kerry?) or fearmongering like Bush?
February 28th, 2007 at 12:17 pm
The first two posters are like Shrewsbury and Slay,trying to sugarcoat some very real problems that need to be addressed in St. Louis city.Mr. Reed is a man with a vision and plan unlike Shrewsbury who has grown fat,lazy and complacent with the status quo!
February 28th, 2007 at 1:00 pm
TV comercials need to be visualy atractive for people to notice them.
I have never been excited by siting at a desk with a telephone or next to a stack of paper.
I hear this buzz that Reed is enerjetic, but thease comercials are just flat.
February 28th, 2007 at 1:11 pm
Sugar coat problems? Reed started off this campaign by claiming that the crime problem isn’t that bad!!!!!
Reed’s vision is to blame someone else for problems and to flip-flop on his decisions.
NO THANKS!
February 28th, 2007 at 2:45 pm
“Reed’s commercial is lackluster and leaves much to be desired.”
Whatever. It’s on a website. Shrewsbury has a lackluster commercial on TV for which he is paying a couple hundred thousand dollars.
Who’s the smarter candidate?
February 28th, 2007 at 4:30 pm
Reed is the smarter candidate!
February 28th, 2007 at 6:12 pm
Whatever. It’s on a website. Shrewsbury has a lackluster commercial on TV for which he is paying a couple hundred thousand dollars.
but you could have said:
Whatever. It’s on a website. Shrewsbury has a commercial on TV, where people will actually see it.
Hmm… putting a commerical up on a medium that goes into voters’ living rooms. I think I know who the smarter candidate is.
February 28th, 2007 at 10:35 pm
Anonymous said…
Shrewsabury’s “Leave it to Beaver” commercial sucks. It’s as phony as he is.
2/28/2007 10:51 AM
This is great stuff…and it’s right. Shrewsbury’s ad was so cheesy and fake. Kinda like him.
February 28th, 2007 at 10:56 pm
Can’t we all just get along?
And be respectful. And non-partisan on blogs where partisanship is so transparent as to be meaningless. Just a thought. Try to have one a day.
Fair and respectful commentary would seem to be, uh, fair and respectful.
February 28th, 2007 at 11:59 pm
i don’t think shrewsbury has tried to sugarcoat anything - he says there are problems. but what has reed done to fix any of those? Shrew has at least passed bills that attempt to do something to help the crime rate…so far as i can tell, reed’s 270 bills are just tax breaks for developers. Woo hoo! give away tax breaks, then try to buy 30 new ambulances and repave entire roads to fix one pothole. Where’s the money going to come from? what kind of vision is that?
March 1st, 2007 at 12:26 am
i like how one of the ads shows Reed on the phone. That must be the only time he’s returned a phone call in 8 years! and you caught it on tape!
March 1st, 2007 at 7:19 pm
No personal attacks. Please keep it on the issues.
March 2nd, 2007 at 9:59 am
No personal attacks. Unless you have an asterisk by your name and that means you can create false, negative commercials about candidates because you are working for someone else.
March 2nd, 2007 at 10:24 am
ROTFLMAO
You haters are just ridiculous!!!!
Antonio, keep up the good work brother!
March 2nd, 2007 at 10:36 am
Anonymous, these commercials do not, nor have the mailers that I’ve designed for ANY of my clients, make any personal attacks.
The only mention of the opponent in these ads are in reference to specific, documented parts of his record as a public official.
March 3rd, 2007 at 2:33 am
Antonio, if you think Shrewsbury only works part time you pay less attention to things in this city than I had given you credit for. Or you are lying about Jim and his work ethic. I sincerely hope its the first.
March 5th, 2007 at 7:07 am
I think Jim Shrewsbury probably works full-time. It’s the fact that he works full-time as a lawyer in the county and only part-time as my elected official that bothers me.