When democrats lie and the Columbian helps them: Benton and Probst and the quarter-million..

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Benton, Probst begin to trade jabs in Senate race

Blog: Political Beat

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By Stevie Mathieu (Columbian Staff)

July 24, 2012

With the general election more than three months away, the claws have started to come out in the race between incumbent state Sen. Don Benton, R-Vancouver, and his lone challenger, state Rep. Tim Probst, D-Vancouver.

Benton recently mailed out a political advertisement that included a warning: “My opponent has been promised $250,000 in negative attack mail by the Seattle Democrat machine. They will stop at nothing to maintain their failed control of the State Senate including lying to you about my record.” The mail piece goes on to ask people to report any slanderous negative attacks against Benton to the Office of the Attorney General.

Michael King, executive director of the Senate Democratic Campaign Committee used strong language to condemn that statement in Benton’s ad. The committee was involved in recruiting Probst to run in the Senate race and plan to support him, but when asked if the campaign committee offered some sort of negative ad deal, King said that’s “blatantly untrue.”

King continued: "This is made up. This is not factually correct. Don Benton is making something up out of thin air."

King, of course, is a liar.

let me repeat that:

King, of course, is a liar.

The comments from the fringe leftists attacking Benton and puffing up that slimeball Probst: the kind of thing the downtown democrats are famous for... go to the comments on the article and read them yourself.

But here's the numbers... all for attacks on Benton:  $256,923.

Doesn't look like it was "made up out of thin air" to me.  How about you?

Report
SENATE DEMOCRATIC CAMPAIGN COMMITTEE    8/22/2012 
$35,000.00  
Report
17TH LEGISLATIVE DISTRICT DEMOCRATIC CENTRAL COMMITTEE    10/3/2012    $7,300.00            
Report
17TH LEGISLATIVE DISTRICT DEMOCRATIC CENTRAL COMMITTEE    10/10/2012    $6,023.25             
Report
SENATE DEMOCRATIC CAMPAIGN COMMITTEE    10/3/2012 
$5,000.00   
Report
17TH LEGISLATIVE DISTRICT DEMOCRATIC CENTRAL COMMITTEE    9/20/2012    $4,600.00        
Report
17TH LEGISLATIVE DISTRICT DEMOCRATIC CENTRAL COMMITTEE    7/9/2012    $4,000.00         
Report
17TH LEGISLATIVE DISTRICT DEMOCRATIC CENTRAL COMMITTEE    10/15/2012    $3,000.00   
Report
SENATE DEMOCRATIC CAMPAIGN COMMITTEE NON FREEZE    8/7/2012 
$2,500.00  
Reports        STRONG ECONOMY FOR THE 17TH  DIST             $165,207.06;
Reports        WORKING FAMILIES FOR THE 17TH DIST                 $25,000.00

So, Benton was obviously telling the truth.  Think that leftist rag will write anything about this?

Hell, no.

But then, that's how they roll.