Five GOP Special Interest Groups Launch NH Ads to Bail Out Bass
$500k This Week from Oil Company & Job-Outsourcing Award-Winners, and more
CONCORD, NH - As Congressman Bass falls in the polls and fails to keep pace in fundraising, five different 'independent' Republican groups rushed to buy almost $500,000 in air time in New Hampshire this week to help Bass hide from his twelve-year record of ushering-in the economic mess that our country is dealing with today.
"In Washington, Congressman Bass supported subsidies for oil companies and bailouts for big Wall Street executives - now those same interests are subsidizing his campaign and bailing-out his faltering effort," said Kuster Communications Director Neil Sroka
In the past 48 hours, five outside groups have rushed to Bass' defense, including one -- Americans for Prosperity -- funded by a billionaire oil executive whose company won the "Outsourcing Excellence Award" for its work shipping American jobs to China.
*** FOR THE WEEK OF 10/5 - 10/11 ***
AMERICANS FOR PROSPERITY --- $44,568 in television ads
NATIONAL REPUBLICAN CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEE --- $137,833 in television ads
REVERE AMERICA PAC --- $241,571 in television ads
NATIONAL FEDERAL OF INDEPENDENT BUSINESSES --- $40,415 in radio ads
SAFARI CLUB INTERNATIONAL PAC --- $6,000 for online ads
Voters interested in learning the real record that these out-of-state interest groups are trying to cover-up can get the facts at www.NHFactCheck.com.
"It's no wonder Congressman Bass' out-of-state friends are rushing to his defense. His support for tax breaks for big oil and tax loopholes for companies that outsource jobs matches the agenda of these shady, outside groups," said Sroka. "Charlie's outsourcing friends are understandably concerned about Annie Kuster's plan to close the tax loopholes he supported during his twelve years in Washington."
Founded by billionaire oil executive David Koch, Americans for Prosperity has made waves this election cycle for channeling corporate cash into negative and misleading advertisements aimed at electing candidates sympathetic to their interests.
One of Koch's companies, Invista, received the "Outsourcing Excellence Award" from the Outsourcing Center for its work exporting jobs to China. Another of his companies, Georgia Pacific, was included on Lou Dobbs' list of companies sending American jobs overseas. Koch Industries was the subject of two Justice Department suits accusing the company of being responsible for more than three hundred oil spills.
Like Americans for Prosperity, Revere America has taken advantage of a new loophole opened up by the Citizens United decision, allowing it to funnel corporate donations to political advertisements without disclosing the identity of donors. The out-of-state group was founded by former New York Gov. George Pataki and has also launched ads in New Hampshire against Rep. Carol Shea-Porter (D-NH).
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