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Related: About this forumKoch-Backed Group Opens 2014 With $2.5 Million Obamacare Ad Assault
http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2014/01/koch-obamacare-ad-blitz-landrieu-hagan-shaheenAmericans for Prosperity, the national conservative group backed by the billionaire industrialists Charles and David Koch, has kicked off 2014 right where it left off in 2013. On Thursday, AFP unveiled a TV ad campaign hammering three Democratic senators for their support of the Affordable Care Act.
AFP has spent more than $2.5 million on a three-week run of ads starting this week that criticize Sens. Kay Hagan (D-N.C.), Mary Landrieu (D-La.), and Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.). Two of those three senatorsHagan and Landrieuare among the most vulnerable Democratic senators running for reelection this November, according to polling. (Polls consistently show Shaheen with strong support back home.)
Here's one of the AFP ads, this one attacking Hagan:
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Koch-Backed Group Opens 2014 With $2.5 Million Obamacare Ad Assault (Original Post)
hue
Feb 2014
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Sunlei
(22,651 posts)1. Kochs could have provided free lunches to all school children in those districts with that money.
Make the Rs look like good, people lovin' guys for once in their lives.
CBHagman
(16,992 posts)2. "All In with Chris Hayes" on MSNBC led with this story.
The news was that the Koch brothers/Americans for Prosperity already started running ads against incumbent Democratic senators in red states. Midterms are challenging enough without the preemptive strike, but this is what's going on.
We need to boost turnout, for starters, and much more.
blm
(113,131 posts)3. Those ads are dishonest - who is working to expose the lies being told?
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Blue Idaho
(5,067 posts)4. We got ours - fuck you America!
The richest 1% of the 1% have money to burn and these bastards want to throw the rest of us on the fire.
Fuck Them.