Republican Senate candidate Tom Leppert has aired a new TV ad stressing his executive experience in corporations and a national business-consulting firm -- and dissing Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst, who made a fortune in the energy business, as "a career politician."
The 30-second spot, called "Didn't Do," shows Leppert standing in a warehouse, talking about jobs.
"I've created thousands of good jobs," he says.
Leppert rhetorically asks how he did it, then answers by saying he sure didn't seek advice from "my opponents -- a career politician and a lawyer. And I certainly didn't call Barack Obama. They don't know how to create jobs."
The lawyer, by the way, is tea party darling Ted Cruz, a hotshot Houston appellate lawyer who used to be the state's top appellate lawyer.
Over the weekend, the Houston Chronicle's Gary Scharrer reported in this piece that Dewhurst at the very least created more than 100 jobs in the 1980s, before the oil bust, at his company Falcon Seaboard, a Houston-based energy and investments firm.
A Leppert release Wednesday said he helped create 2,300 jobs at Turner Corp., a national construction firm he headed.
Both Dewhurst and Leppert claim to have fostered pro-job policies while holding elective office. Both men are rich investors, so it's unclear how one referees not just the question of their pasts, as company executives, and how many positions they helped create years ago, but whether they're still "job creators," given that both men help capitalize job creators through their investments.
There's no question, though, that Leppert went into politics more recently -- in late 2006. And so his business experience is fresher than Dewhurst's. Now lieutenant governor, Dewhurst went into politics in 1998, becoming state land commissioner.
The Leppert camp said the ad "will be running in major media markets across the state including Houston, Dallas-Fort Worth, San Antonio and Austin."
"Didn't Do," a new 30 second TV ad by Tom Leppert, Republican candidate for U.S. Senate:
Leppert to camera: "As the only businessman in this race, I've created thousands of good jobs. How did I do it? Well, I didn't call people like my opponents -- a career politician and a lawyer. And I certainly didn't call Barack Obama. They don't know how to create jobs. But I do. Let's get government out of the way so business can do what it does best -- create growth and opportunity. I'm conservative Tom Leppert. I approve this message because creating jobs is my job."
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