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The Coleman campaign is also extending a proposal that both campaigns fight off outside advertising.

"They let their supporters run this attack ad," says Wellstone campaign manager Jeff Blodgett. "Last week they claim that they have nothing to do with it and can't do anything about it. The second the DFL Party runs an ad that corrects the record on this vicious ad, they somehow cry foul; it's ridiculous."

"Money grubbing ain't a strong enough word for what Wellstone's trying to do," the ad says. "Our folks paid their fair share. When will Wellstone understand that simple fact."

spot features a couple distraught then outraged that they owe estate taxes on a farm inherited from one of their diseased parents.

"We're asking a group that has run ads, not to run additional ads, we would ask Sen. Wellstone to do the same. We invite him to do what he didn't do in March, which was to agree to try and keep to the best that we can that third party ads out of Minnesota," Whitney said.

The DFL ad links the special interest group "Americans for Job Security," with the insurance industry and Norm Coleman's law firm.

But Wellstone's campaign says it will not ask outside groups to stay out of the Senate contest and will not ask the Minnesota DFL Party to pull an ad the Democrats say sets Wellstone's estate tax record straight.

And Whitney is using the latest ad flap as an opportunity to extend a proposal to the Wellstone campaign in which both candidates would begin fighting off any special interest or soft money advertising aimed at bolstering their respective campaigns.

The ad attacks Wellstone for his vote against repealing the estate tax, known to critics as the "death tax."

At a state Capitol news conference, Coleman's campaign manager, Ben Whitney demanded the DFL pull its response ad. He accused the DFL of citing a relationship between Coleman and the special interest Nike Air More Uptempo Basketball Shoes group that Whitney says does not exist.

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And, perhaps more importantly, makes clear that Wellstone voted in favor of exempting family farmers and small business owners from the controversial estate tax.

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Whitney also told reporters he's asked Americans for Job Security to stop running ads attacking Wellstone even though, he says, the ad that started the battle is completely factual.

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And in the latest skirmish in the battle, Americans for Job Security has released another version of the estate tax ad.

The Wellstone campaign called the ad vicious and untruthful. Minnesota DFL Party leaders labeled it "one of the most negative ads in Minnesota politics. The DFL then responded with its own radio ad.

called "Americans for Job Security." It began running early last week.

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In March, the Wellstone campaign called the Coleman independent expenditure/soft money ban proposal a "gimmick and a sham."