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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/0 ... f=politicsGOP Candidates Battle Over 'Despicable Attack'
A pair of Missouri Republican Senate candidates are in something of a barnyard fight over an ad that accuses one of them of donating to a farm animal rights group. The candidate, businessman John Brunner, calls the ad an attack on his family because the donation really came from his daughter.
The ad, aired by the campaign of state Treasurer Sarah Steelman, accuses Brunner of giving $10,000 to an "extreme animal rights group that was founded to give farm animals rights."
The spot goes on to say that the group, the Humane Farming Association, worries about the animals' feelings, and asks, "What's next, therapy?"
It then segues without warning to Steelman saying she opposes partial-birth abortion and gay marriage and that she "loveto hunt."
According to the campaign, the Brunner household's Christmas tradition is to donate to military families through the Brunner family foundation. But some years the kids have been allowed to choose their own charity, and once Becker chose Humane Farming, which says its goals are "to protect farm animals from cruelty and abuse, to protect the public from the misuse of antibiotics, hormones, and other chemicals used on factory farms, and to protect the environment from the impacts of industrialized animal factories."
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