NEWS RELEASE
October 17, 2000
Contact: John Brockelman, (617) 423-2000
Tax Rollback Committee Releases
Fact Check
on "No on #4" Ad
Misspellings, a paid actress, and a distortion of the facts all in 30 seconds!
The Tax Rollback Committee today released a fact check on the first "No on #4"
advertisement. In addition to misspelling the governor's name and the state of Massachusetts,
the first "No on #4" campaign blitz plays fast and loose with the facts.
"If they can't even spell the name of our state and our governor correctly, in their opening
campaign blitz, why should anyone trust anything else they have to say?" said spokesman for
the Tax Rollback Committee John Brockelman. "It is also pathetic that they were forced to hire
an actress to play a 'real person from Massachusetts' to distort the facts about this popular tax
rollback."
"The state and the governor's last name are missing letters on the Web site, as taped for the
commercial. (Both errors, 'Celluci' and 'Massachusets,' have since been corrected on the Web
site.)" (Boston Globe,
10/17/00)
Brockelman was also referring to the star of the "No on #4" campaign's new ad Nancy Villone
from Medfield who, according to the Associated Press and State House News Service, was
paid to appear in the commercial to pretend that she is a "real person" opposing the tax
rollback to 5%.