Republican Terri Lynn Land may not be shouting her message from the mountain tops, but almost.
Her campaign, in a press release, announced Monday that it will launch 85 billboards in the Detroit, Flint and Grand Rapids areas.
The press release says:
The advertisements will feature Terri Lynn Land’s Michigan First plan and also highlight Congressman Peters’ hypocritical profits from the Detroit water shutoff and petcoke as well as his ties to the California billionaire, Tom Steyer, and his radical, job-killing agenda.
“Terri Lynn Land has a plan to put Michigan First by fixing our roads, securing the border, and creating good-paying jobs. Meanwhile, Gary Peters faces serious charges of hypocrisy over profiting from the Detroit water shutoff and petcoke, as well as his ties to the radical California billionaire Tom Steyer and support of cap-and-trad," said Heather Swift, Land Campaign Spokeswoman
Land has been accused by the media of being an invisible candidate, who shies away from public appearances, particularly when there's the possibility of being asked spontaneous questions. Last Friday, she appeared on a call-in show on public radio. Afterward, Free Press columnist Brian Dickerson blasted her, calling her appearance " a maddening exercise in evasion, obfuscation and incomprehensibility."
On the other hand, she's been ominpresent on television, flooding the airwaves with commercial after commercial.
So far, she trails Peters in the polls.
Peters' spokeswoman Haley Morris was quoted in the Detroit News as saying:
“Nothing screams desperation louder than 85 billboards from the invisible Senate Candidate Terri Lynn Land who won’t even make her increasingly absurd accusations face to face in a debat. Michiganders will reject Land’s failed retro campaign strategy just like they are rejecting her anti-middle class agenda to turn back the clock on equal pay, stem cell research, and access to women’s health care.”