Oklahoma Political News Service has already brought you in-depth coverage of the Club for Growth advertising on behalf of State Representative Kevin Calvey and exposed its misstatements and half-truths. We also covered the Mick Cornett radio ad days before it was attacked by other candidates and covered by traditional media sources. They are now regularly following our lead on political new stories. Continuing in this important series, we turn our attention to the third ad run by State Corporation Commissioner Denise Bode, who was criticized by her opponents for arguably stretching the truth in her 2002 primary campaign for Attorney General against Tim Green, and Drew Edmondson in the general. Our analysis of the ad does uncover one untruth and one exaggeration:. UNTRUTH… • ANNCR: Denise Bode wrote parts of the historic Reagan tax cut plan… According to a 1985 *Time Magazine article, Denise Bode was the lead Democratic staffer in the U.S. Senate working to thwart part of the Reagan tax cuts. Time credits Bode with Senate passage of the 1983 gas tax hike, which more than doubled the federal gas tax. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ *PULLING STRINGS ON CAPITOL HILL, THESE LOBBYISTS ARE TRYING TO UNRAVEL REAGAN'S TAX REFORM "Bode was still working in the Senate three years ago when she showed her mettle. Exhausted and eight months pregnant, she helped shepherd the 1982 gas tax bill through the Senate." ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ EXAGGERATION… • ANNCR: [Denise Bode] …led the fight to kill Clinton’s BTU tax… The defeat of the Clinton tax increase, according to a case study published by American University, is credited to the work of the National Association of Manufacturers and the Aluminum Manufacturers. Mrs. Bode’s role - with Senator Boren’s support - on the Senate floor is unclear. If she truly played a role, it is an exaggeration to claim she lead the fight. Posted at 6/21/2006 01:27:00 PM