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2014: The Davis campaign's television ads

This address held a video from the 2014 governor's campaign. We have not been able to view it, so its contents are not described. What follows is the verified record of the campaign's own advertising that fall.

Original address
/sections/media/kansas-certified-video
Date of the original item
2014 (exact date not known)
Status
Archive note written by the Public Record editors. The campaign's original text is not reproduced.

About this address

The old campaign site kept videos under /sections/media/. The name of this one suggests a campaign video, but we could not retrieve it and do not know exactly what it showed. Rather than guess, this note sets out what was reported about the Davis campaign's ads in 2014.

The first ad, pulled the same day

Davis's first TV ad went up on September 3, 2014. His campaign said it presented him as a moderate who had worked across party lines for twelve years in the Legislature. Within hours the Kansas Republican Party released information about the criminal record of a man who appeared in it, and the campaign pulled the ad. It first cited "technical issues," then acknowledged the problem and apologized. The state GOP's executive director said the episode raised "serious questions about Paul Davis' judgment."

Schools and taxes

Later ads followed the campaign's two main themes. In mid-September the campaign released "Tradition," which argued that Kansas had a long tradition of strong public schools and blamed Brownback for what it called the largest cut to schools in state history. Another ad, showing a car driving in reverse to stand for the state's direction under Brownback, attacked the 2012 tax cuts and the credit downgrades that followed. The Christian Science Monitor ranked it among the year's nine catchiest campaign ads.

How it turned out

Davis lost on November 4, 2014, 46.1 percent to 49.8 percent. For the advertising aimed at Davis that fall, see 2014: ads against Davis.

Sources

  1. Lawrence Journal-World: Davis pulls first TV ad amid concerns about actor (Sept. 3, 2014)
  2. Kansas Public Radio: Davis pulls 1st TV ad for Kansas governor amid controversy (Sept. 4, 2014)
  3. Daily Kos: Paul Davis campaign email and ad 'Tradition' (Sept. 13, 2014)
  4. Christian Science Monitor: Catchiest campaign ads of 2014 (Nov. 4, 2014)

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