Or B.S.

The Rochester and Monroe County area is rapdily gaining the reputation for political ads from both parties and independent expenditure groups that are slinging untruths and lies.

Consider the increasingly nasty race between Democratic Rep. Louise Slaughter and Republican Maggie Brooks, which has featured ads and mailers that have been slammed for inaccuracies by the Fair Elections Practices Committee.

Slaughter has repeatedly claimed that Brooks is part of a cabal of corruption as the Monroe County executive, only the numbers her ads have used have been called wrong by the panel. And the Karl Rove-helmed Crossroads GPS has been criticized for inaccurate claims made about Slaughter’s time in office as well.

And it’s not just that race.

Today the committee told the state Senate campaigns of Democrat Ted O’Brien and Republican Sean Hanna that ads and mailers run either by them or independent groups aren’t accurate, either.

One of the TV ads from the New York State Teachers Union’s Vote COPE that claimed Hanna approved sales tax increases, was declared inaccurate, as were claimes that O’Brien voted against bridge repair funding.

The campaign has also seen the involvement of the Virginia-based Republican PAC Common Sense Principles that makes questionable claims and keeps its donors hidden.

FYI — Jessica Alaimo at the Demcorat and Chronicle in Rochester is a must-read fact checker on all these ads and is very much worth following.

Hanna v OBrien 10-25-12

OBrien v Hanna 10-25-12

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