GOP Launches Early Vs. Mollohan

The National Republican Congressional Committee has paid for a weeks' worth of radio ads attacking U.S. Rep. Alan Mollohan, D-1st, in his district.

As The Associated Press reports, the spot running on Morgantown, Parkersburg and Wheeling stations "aims to remind voters of the apparent federal probe into the Democrat's financial dealings and earmark appropriations."

For whatever reason, the NRCC could not provide a script, a sound file or a link to AP. But a Mollohan spokesman said he's already heard the ad, and offers a ho-hum reaction.

"I'm feeling like I'm in a time warp,'' Gerry Griffith told AP. "The spot rehashed all the innuendo and all the dirty, nasty politics that we lived through a year and a half ago. But we know how the voters reacted to that.''