"The National Republican Congressional Committee, the official Republican Party body that helps candidates for the United States House of Representatives, announced on July 28, it was spending $265,000 for television ads in the Cincinnati market, covering the western part of the district, and $250,000 for ads in the Huntington, West Virginia, market, covering the eastern half.Carl Forti told "The Cincinnati Enquirer" "we decided to bury him" after Hackett told "USA Today", in a story published that morning, "I don't like the son-of-a-bitch that lives in the White House but I'd put my life on the line for him."