May 15, 2010 01:54 AM UTC

Frontier Airlines Slaps GOP for Slimy Anti-Hickenlooper Ads

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• by: jaytee

Frontier airlines is having none of the opportunist Republican Governors Association ads attacking Democratic gubernatorial candidate John Hickenlooper. The company actually sent out a release saying that the ads were a low blow even in politics. The Colorado Independent:

The ads claim that Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper cost the city more than 39,000 jobs as a result of increased taxes. The ads claim Frontier told Hickenlooper that taxes in Denver were too high and that he did nothing. The ads say these higher taxes “forced” Frontier to move 340 jobs out of state.

Friday, Frontier issued a statement to “set the record straight about a political ad run by the Republican Governors Association using Frontier Airlines as an example in the center of a Colorado political campaign.

“We are disappointed to be drawn into a political attack ad,” said Bryan Bedford, chairman, president and CEO of Republic Airways Holding, Inc. (Frontier’s parent company) “Frontier is not affiliated with any political organizations. Our decision to relocate certain maintenance jobs from Denver was a difficult one, but it was based on many factors. Taxes were not the compelling factor in our decision to relocate jobs to other cities.”

Frontier spokesperson Lindsey Purves said Frontier took the unusual step of sending out the release because “We really didn’t appreciate being used in this way, especially because these attack ads don’t tell the whole story, and we thought it was important to get the truth out.” She said the Republican Governors Association did not discuss the ads with Frontier before running them.

Now proxies for McInnis are being called out for doing more of what McInnis has so far done with his campaign: making it a mess of exaggeration and b.s.