With over five months to go until the general election, Sen. Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) is already airing an ad touting his work in helping secure funding to help rebuild the Gulf Coast part of the state after Hurricane Katrina.
"In Congress, Wicker fought for us after Katrina... In Congress, he achieved bipartisan support working with Senators Lott, Cochran and Congressman Taylor," a narrator says in the ad. "Wicker helped secure billions of dollars for recovery, rebuilding infrastructure, bringing new jobs. He listens, he cares, he gets the job done."
The ad, which began airing last week, is only being broadcast in the Gulf Coast region of the state, and is designed to improve Wicker’s name identification outside of his old House district in northeast Mississippi. Wicker’s spokesman called it a “solid buy,” and said it is still airing in southeast Mississippi.
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Posted on Tuesday, May 27, 2008
by CBS