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Dean has already posted about the announcement by Americans for Job Security that it is targeting both Kelly Ayotte and John Lynch.
AJS has always refused to disclose where it gets its money, so we can only guess about who is funneling the cash this time. However, we can lift the veil of secrecy a tiny bit, and it leads to a couple of interesting facts, which lead to some interesting speculation.
Fact 1: According to the corporate fililngs of AJS in Virginia, one of the members of the Board of Directors of AJS is Patrick Hynes, of Faux!Hampshire, the phoney "news" web site, and sometimes guest on Granitegork. Hynes also is on the payroll for Tim Pawlenty. If I were Kelly Ayotte, I would be on the phone right now to the possible 2012 presidential candidate and ask him why one of his paid PAC consultants is working against her United States senate campaign. And if I were Pawlenty, I'd be on the phone to Hynes asking him why he is making trouble for him in NH, because this kind of thing will be remembered by Ayotte supporters come 2012.
For Hynes' employment by Pawlenty, see: http://www.politico.com/news/s...
For Hynes' being on the board of directors of AJS, see:
https://cisiweb.scc.virginia.g...
I don't know why Patrick Hynes is trying to defeat Kelly Ayotte; perhaps he or one of the companies he is affiliated with are also on the payroll for, or are negotiating with, one of the other United States senate candidates. But these are the types of things he does not write about at Faux!hampshire.
2. AJS has a long history with New Hampshire Republicans, not just current director Steve DeMaura and Patrick Hynes, but also Sununu family advisor David Carney. I don't know what if any control over AJS Carney may still have, but, if you are of a conspiratorial mind, there are some interesting dots to connect. Paul Collins, who also has a long and close relationship with the Sununu family, including working on John E. Sununu's staff, and also as John H. Sununu's e.d. at the NHGOP, left the state party in the not too distant past to work for Bill Binnie's senate campaign. We also know that Bill Binnie is willing to open his wallet to win this nomination. Hynes did take a couple of swings at Binnie very early on, but has been quiet lately.
Is all this a coincidence? I don't know, but if I were on the Ayotte campaign, or an enterprising political reporter, I would be asking this question: who is behind the AJS effort to defeat her? Where is the money coming from?
For more info on AJS, see:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...
and
http://www.adn.com/2008/08/17/...