CONLEY COMMENTARY (WSAU) – Tammy Baldwin’s campaign is airing a television commercial that’s supposed to tug at your heartstrings. In it, Brook McKearn talks about the drug overdose death of her son Nick.
She says that Senator Tammy Baldwin authored a bill to stop fentanyl from coming into the country. Mrs. McKearn says “Tammy Baldwin has been with us every step of the way.” The commercial shows the senator and the mother hugging.
The commercial, which plays to our emotions not our logic, leaves out that Tammy Baldwin’s efforts to stop the flow of fentanyl are failing. Fentanyl, which comes from China, flows across our southern border with Mexico. Senator Baldwin has been a roadblock, not a helper, to efforts to close the border. Former President Trump’s policies, like Stay In Mexico, reduced the flow of illegals into our country. What’s happening at the border today is an unmitigated disaster.
Baldwin’s challenger Eric Hovde should make the following commercial: “I’m Eric Hovde, and I want to speak directory to Mrs. McKearn. I’m also heartbroken that you lost your son to a drug overdose. Nick and others like him will continue to die from fentanyl until we close our southern border and stop that poison from coming into our country. My opponent Tammy Baldwin offers her sympathy. I do, too. But I also offer a solution. Close the border. Let’s honor those we’ve lost in the war on drugs by doing things that work.”
There would be some who say that such an ad cynically plays on a mother’s grief. Not true. It’s the grieving mother and the Baldwin campaign who put the death of Nick McKearn into the spotlight.
Eric Hovde’s message should be: I’m ready to solve the problem, while my opponent is busy making campaign commercials.
Chris Conley
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