In his blog, Kevin Rennie details the scathing attack mailer the McMahon camp has unleashed against Democratic opponent Richard Blumenthal.
The brochure contains an open letter signed by 46 military veterans who accuse the AG of engaging in "a pattern of deception" about his military service.
"We are grateful for your service,'' the letter states. "For that, you should be commended, just as any veteran of any branch of the military should be. But you did not serve in Vietnam - and to claim so repeatedly over the years and to make up stories that are completely untrue is not simply a matter of 'misspeaking.'"
Rennie notes that the onslaught of negative messages from the McMahon campaign will test Blumenthal in coming weeks. "We'll find out how much of a fighter he is when we see his response to this barrage, which will no doubt be accompanied by television commercials,'' Rennie writes. "Mr. Blumenthal needs to come out of his foxhole and engage.''
I asked Blumenthal earlier this week how aggressively he intends to go after McMahon.
"We won't hestitate to set the record straight if necessary,'' he said. "I think people are tired and even fed up with the politics as usual of negative attack ads but we won't hestitate to set the record straight about our records...That's as much as I can say right now."