Fred Davis, Joe Ricketts Disavow Rev. Wright Proposal

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Fred Davis, the Republican ad man whose firm was responsible for the plan to attack President Obama by emphasizing his connection to the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, sent the following statement to TPM from his firm Strategic Perception:

The document referred to in today’s New York Times story was one proposal prepared and submitted by Strategic Perception Inc. The Ricketts family never approved it, and nothing has happened on it since the presentation. The vendors listed were as proposed, and had nothing to do with this proposal.

Brian Baker, president of the super PAC Ending Spending Action Fund, released the following statement on behalf of Joe Ricketts, the founder of TD Ameritrade who commissioned the proposal:

Via Politico:

Joe Ricketts is a registered independent, a fiscal conservative, and an outspoken critic of the Obama Administration, but he is neither the author nor the funder of the so-called “Ricketts Plan” to defeat Mr. Obama that The New York Times wrote about this morning. Not only was this plan merely a proposal – one of several submitted to the Ending Spending Action Fund by third-party vendors – but it reflects an approach to politics that Mr. Ricketts rejects and it was never a plan to be accepted but only a suggestion for a direction to take. Mr. Ricketts intends to work hard to help elect a President this fall who shares his commitment to economic responsibility, but his efforts are and will continue to be focused entirely on questions of fiscal policy, not attacks that seek to divide us socially or culturally.

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