GOP Senate candidate in Missouri forced to pull videos explotiing 9/11 from website

Lazio web videos feature smoldering towers, World Trade Center debris, and frantic rescue workers

Today, Democrats demanded that Rick Lazio remove two inflammatory web ads from his website which feature poignant images of 9/11, including the smoldering towers, swirling debris, and frantic rescue workers racing to help the injured. 

Earlier today, Republican Congressman Roy Blunt, a Missouri Senate Candidate, acknowledged that his own video ads featuring imagery from 9/11 were inappropriate and took them off his website.  (FOX News, 8/19/10, click)

“No candidate, least of all one running for governor of New York, should exploit the imagery of 9/11 for political purposes.  That doesn’t even fly in Missouri, where a Republican candidate for Senate was rightly forced to pull a similar ad.  New Yorkers will never forget the pain of that day.  That makes Rick Lazio’s use of footage of 9/11 – the smoldering towers and the heroes racing through dust and debris to tend to the injured – completely shameless,” said Jay Jacobs, chair of the NYS Democratic Committee.

“There’s no justification for using images of that tragic day in a cheap political ad, especially when it causes more pain to so many families who lost loves ones on 9/11.  Lazio needs to remove those disgusting videos from his website and issue an apology to every New Yorker for having the gall to use the footage in the first place,” concluded Jacobs.