Burns attacking Critz on ethics – DNC bashes Romney on banks – Van Hollen: GOP 'siding with Wall Street' – NY-29 lawsuit coming – Poll: Marshall leads N.C. primary
| SPECIAL REPORT — THE NEXT FRONT: Republican businessman Tim Burns plans to open up a new front in the air war for Pennsylvania’s 12th Congressional District, according to a GOP official, launching a television ad of unspecified size attacking Democrat Mark Critz’s record on ethics. The ad will link Burns’s special election opponent to the House investigation of the late Rep. John Murtha’s earmarks and spotlight Critz’s tenure at a company with a record of accumulating tax liens. The commercial follows a Washington Post report this week showing Critz’s campaign buoyed by donations from companies that received Murtha-backed federal contracts.
Both sides are making Critz’s work for Murtha an issue in this race, and Critz has attempted to deploy his connection to the congressman as a selling point of his campaign. As Burns and the NRCC have tied him to national Democratic positions on health care and energy, Critz has been running ads billing himself as “Jack Murtha’s economic development director, helping bring in thousands of new jobs.” As Marco Rubio files, Kendrick Meek gets Magic and the DGA remembers “Remember November,” here’s POLITICO’s Morning Score: your daily cheat sheet for the 2010 midterm elections. POLITICO SNEAK PEEK — BANKING ON IT: Democrats are planning to capitalize on the Senate GOP’s unanimous vote against the financial reform bill Monday, using the issue to paint Republicans as water-carriers for Wall Street. DCCC Chairman Chris Van Hollen plans to say in a statement today that Republicans should “join Democrats in putting the needs of middle class families before our nation’s biggest banks,” jabbing: “It’s unfortunate that Senate Republicans followed House Republicans Monday in siding with Wall Street over Main Street, despite the American people overwhelmingly wanting an end to the risky behavior on Wall Street that brought our economy to the brink of collapse.” And the DNC is releasing a video taking aim at 2012 hopeful Mitt Romney as “Wall Street’s Best Friend” — featuring a clip of Dick Morris saying “the country club, upper-income, Wall Street business community is Romney,” and showing the former Massachusetts governor arguing on C-SPAN: “Wall Street is certainly, and to a large degree, to blame for what happened. But so is Main Street. THE NUMBERS: The Washington Post/ABC poll released Monday gave Democrats reason to feel confident on this issue, showing 63 percent of Americans said they support “stricter federal regulations on the way Wall Street firms conduct their business,” compared with just 29 percent who said they were opposed. **A message from Building Star: America’s buildings need an upgrade. Building STAR would create up to 200,000 jobs for skilled American workers by investing in commercial building retrofits that will cut waste and reduce bills. Learn more at www.RebuildingAmerica.org ** TOGETHER AT LAST: Missouri Secretary of State and Senate candidate Robin Carnahan, who found herself out of town the last time President Obama visited her state, will appear with him during a visit to an ethanol plant in Macon Wednesday, her campaign confirmed Monday. Also expected to appear with the president during his three-state Midwestern swing this week: Iowa Gov. Chet Culver and Illinois Senate candidate Alexi Giannoulias. TODAY — FINAL COUNTDOWN: As the days tick away until Florida’s filing deadline on Friday, former state House Speaker Marco Rubio is holding a public event in Miami today to sign documents officially declaring for Senate as a Republican. Gov. Charlie Crist continues to insist he hasn’t decided how to proceed with his campaign, telling the Miami Herald’s Beth Reinhard he’s still “hearing the advice of the people of Florida.” And asked if he would return donations to Republican supporters in the event that he ran as an independent, Crist declined to say: “You know, I think that’s a decision that you have to make if you made a decision to go independent. I haven’t made that decision yet.” SPECIAL REPORT — THE NEXT FRONT: Republican businessman Tim Burns plans to open up a new front in the air war for Pennsylvania’s 12th Congressional District, according to a GOP official, launching a television ad of unspecified size attacking Democrat Mark Critz’s record on ethics. The ad will link Burns’s special election opponent to the House investigation of the late Rep. John Murtha’s earmarks and spotlight Critz’s tenure at a company with a record of accumulating tax liens. The commercial follows a Washington Post report this week showing Critz’s campaign buoyed by donations from companies that received Murtha-backed federal contracts. Both sides are making Critz’s work for Murtha an issue in this race, and Critz has attempted to deploy his connection to the congressman as a selling point of his campaign. As Burns and the NRCC have tied him to national Democratic positions on health care and energy, Critz has been running ads billing himself as “Jack Murtha’s economic development director, helping bring in thousands of new jobs.” As Marco Rubio files, Kendrick Meek gets Magic and the DGA remembers “Remember November,” here’s POLITICO’s Morning Score: your daily cheat sheet for the 2010 midterm elections. POLITICO SNEAK PEEK — BANKING ON IT: Democrats are planning to capitalize on the Senate GOP’s unanimous vote against the financial reform bill Monday, using the issue to paint Republicans as water-carriers for Wall Street. DCCC Chairman Chris Van Hollen plans to say in a statement today that Republicans should “join Democrats in putting the needs of middle class families before our nation’s biggest banks,” jabbing: “It’s unfortunate that Senate Republicans followed House Republicans Monday in siding with Wall Street over Main Street, despite the American people overwhelmingly wanting an end to the risky behavior on Wall Street that brought our economy to the brink of collapse.” And the DNC is releasing a video taking aim at 2012 hopeful Mitt Romney as “Wall Street’s Best Friend” — featuring a clip of Dick Morris saying “the country club, upper-income, Wall Street business community is Romney,” and showing the former Massachusetts governor arguing on C-SPAN: “Wall Street is certainly, and to a large degree, to blame for what happened. But so is Main Street. THE NUMBERS: The Washington Post/ABC poll released Monday gave Democrats reason to feel confident on this issue, showing 63 percent of Americans said they support “stricter federal regulations on the way Wall Street firms conduct their business,” compared with just 29 percent who said they were opposed. **A message from Building Star: America’s buildings need an upgrade. Building STAR would create up to 200,000 jobs for skilled American workers by investing in commercial building retrofits that will cut waste and reduce bills. Learn more at www.RebuildingAmerica.org ** TOGETHER AT LAST: Missouri Secretary of State and Senate candidate Robin Carnahan, who found herself out of town the last time President Obama visited her state, will appear with him during a visit to an ethanol plant in Macon Wednesday, her campaign confirmed Monday. Also expected to appear with the president during his three-state Midwestern swing this week: Iowa Gov. Chet Culver and Illinois Senate candidate Alexi Giannoulias. TODAY — FINAL COUNTDOWN: As the days tick away until Florida’s filing deadline on Friday, former state House Speaker Marco Rubio is holding a public event in Miami today to sign documents officially declaring for Senate as a Republican. Gov. Charlie Crist continues to insist he hasn’t decided how to proceed with his campaign, telling the Miami Herald’s Beth Reinhard he’s still “hearing the advice of the people of Florida.” And asked if he would return donations to Republican supporters in the event that he ran as an independent, Crist declined to say: “You know, I think that’s a decision that you have to make if you made a decision to go independent. I haven’t made that decision yet.” |