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TAMPA, Fla., Oct. 21 (UPI) -- Florida Senate candidate Betty Castor is pulling an ad linking President Bush with a Palestinian fundraiser, but her opponent said she was "insincere."
Castor, a Tampa Democrat, said she was pulling all negative ads and challenged Republican candidate Mel Martinez to do the same, the St. Petersburg Times reported Thursday.
She said the only ad she was pulling was the only one she could control, because the others were paid for by the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee and an independent political group.
"I'm going to start with the ads that I can control, and set an example," she said.
"It's an insincere effort to curry political favor," Martinez said. "If I were to say I'll take down my negative ads, it would be unilateral disarmament. I cannot do that because I don't know that any other group is going to have ads on the air."
The ads in question involve charges that Castor was soft on alleged terrorist fundraiser Sami al-Arian when he was a professor at the University of South Florida and she was the school's president.
Al-Arian now is awaiting trial on federal terrorism charges.
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