NRCC Weekly Rundown: New ads, House Majority PAC pulls out of MN-03, Brad Ashford runs from Obamacare, and more!
And here’s this week’s edition of the NRCC Weekly Rundown:
NEW TV ADS:
CA-24: The NRCC’s new ad exposes Salud Carbajal’s tax hike hypocrisy. Carbajal has repeatedly supported raising taxes, but has been hit with three federal tax liens for failing to pay his own taxes.
FL-18: The NRCC is on the air with a new ad, contrasting Brian Mast’s career of service to our country with Randy Perkins’ record of sleaze, making millions off of grief-stricken victims of natural disasters.
FL-26: The NRCC is out with a new TV ad and radio ad highlighting Joe Garcia’s embarrassing behavior. From election fraud, to campaign payoffs, to boneheaded comments, Garcia has embarrassed South Florida long enough.
IA-01: The new ad from the NRCC exposes Monica Vernon’s history of taking taxpayer funded pay raises for herself, and doling out deals for developers who donated to her campaigns. It pays to be Monica Vernon!
IL-10: A new NRCC ad highlights Brad Schneider’s support for the dangerous Iran nuclear deal. The deal gives the world’s leading state sponsor of terror $150 billion in sanctions relief, but Schneider supports it 100%.
ME-02: A new TV ad and radio ad showcase another of Emily Cain’s extreme policies. This time, the focus is on Emily Cain’s sponsorship of a bill to force public schools to weigh its students, including teenage girls, and report the data to the government.
MI-01: The NRCC’s new TV ad exposes Lon Johnson’s latest act, as he poses with a gun despite supporting Obama’s radical gun control agenda.
NE-02: A new ad from the NRCC highlights Brad Ashford’s reckless votes to allow the release of terrorists from GITMO back to the battlefield.
NY-03: The NRCC’s new ad re-introduces Long Island voters to Taxin’ Tom Suozzi. The ad reminds voters that Suozzi raised taxes by hundreds of millions of dollars during his disastrous tenures as Nassau County Executive and Mayor of Glen Cove.
NY-22: In a new ad, the NRCC exposes multi-millionaires Kim Myers and Martin Babinec for their track record of outsourcing Upstate New York jobs.
PA-08: The NRCC is on the air with a new ad exposing Steve Santarsiero’s consistent votes in favor of higher taxes for middle class families.
WI-08: The NRCC’s new ad targets Tom Nelson for his record of raising taxes and fees while accepting a taxpayer funded pay raise for himself during a financial crisis.
OTHER ITEMS:
National: A new round of co-op failures has analysts discussing whether Obamacare has entered a “death spiral. 17 of the original 23 Obamacare co-ops have now failed, leaving more than 800,000 members without a health insurance plan.
National: House Democrats like Ami Bera, once again stood with the disastrous Iran nuclear deal over national security. House Democrats opposed two bills aimed at preventing sanctions relief funds from making their way to terrorist groups, and prohibiting future ransom payments to Iran.
CA-24: Salud Carbajal was called out at a public meeting in Lompoc for calling the community the “armpit” of Santa Barbara County. He previously faced protests at his campaign office before Carbajal sent a staffer to apologize.
CA-36: Raul Ruiz outdid himself with his disrespectful remark to a Navajo elected official. Ruiz referred to San Juan County Commissioner Rebecca Benally as a “token” spokesperson for her nation. The NRCC called on Ruiz to apologize.
CO-06: A Denver Post editor commented on the Sixth District race, stating the obvious, that Morgan Carroll’s campaign is “struggling.”
IL-10: As a series of candidate forums began in IL-10, the NRCC suggested some questions that Brad Schneider needs to answer on issues like his flip-flop on the Iran nuclear deal, his refusal to release personal financial information, and his rebuke by the Human Rights Campaign for false attacks in his ads.
MD-06: John Delaney voted this week to continue fining families who lose health insurance due to the midyear failure of an Obamacare co-op. Delaney’s support, at all costs, for Obamacare comes even as Maryland regulators announced that Obamacare will drive the cost of health insurance up by 20% or more next year.
MN-02: Washington liberals are rallying around their handpicked candidate, Angie Craig. A Soros-backed Super PAC announced its plans to air ads attacking Jason Lewis, and Nancy Pelosi made plans to head to Minneapolis to campaign on Craig’s behalf.
MN-03: Terri Bonoff’s campaign took a major blow this week as Nancy Pelosi’s Super PAC pulled its money out of the race. House Majority PAC was to begin airing ads on Bonoff’s behalf in October, but decided to pull the money out of Minnesota. Apparently Bonoff’s embrace of Pelosi for Speaker wasn’t enough to keep her Super PAC in the race.
MN-08: Rick Nolan had what has become his average week. Nolan lied to reporters in Minnesota about his record of voting to increase his own pay as recently as June, then headed back to Washington to vote to fine families who lose their health insurance through no fault of their own.
NE-02: Blue Cross ran from Nebraska due to Obamacare, as Brad Ashford ran from his support for Obamacare this week. Ashford also told a reporter that he’ll vote for Nancy Pelosi for speaker no matter what, even if he doesn’t agree with her on anything.
NV-04: The FBI recently began subpoenaing records in their case involving Las Vegas City Councilman Ricki Barlow and the Ramirez group, the company at which Ruben Kihuen is a principal. Kihuen has been frantically trying to distance himself from Barlow, who previously was prominently featured in Kihuen’s campaign. Perhaps the investigation will bring details of their relationship to light.
NY-19: An anti-Super-PAC Super PAC is airing Super PAC ads on behalf of Super PAC hypocrite Zephyr Teachout. The ad uses B-roll footage that Teachout recently put online, claiming that it was for aspiring volunteer videographers.
NY-22: Multimillionaire heiress Kim Myers rolled up to this week’s debate in a car worth more than the average salary for NY-22 families. The car had Pennsylvania plates, bringing up the question of whether it is a company car from her family business that Myers moved to Pittsburgh.
NY-24: Colleen Deacon told The Auburn Citizen that keeping America safe is her number one priority. If Deacon is being sincere, she may want to edit her website, which does not even contain a section on national security on its issues section.
PA-08: Slippery Steve Santarsiero has stopped showing up for work. Santarsiero has missed 40 of 59 votes in the past ten days, including skipping a joint legislative session addressing the opioid abuse crisis in Pennsylvania.
TX-23: Pete Gallego is having trouble being straight with voters about where he lives. According to the AP, Gallego lists his official address at a boarded up home in Alpine, and keeps a San Antonio apartment that’s his base while campaigning, but his wife and son live 80 miles north of San Antonio in Austin.
VA-10: Luann Bennett is back to pushing her tall tale that she lived at her rural Virginia estate, and not the Ritz-Carlton apartment she owns blocks from her office, saying she used the 110 mile commute to listen to books on tape. The NRCC suggested an audiobook for Bennett to listen to on her next commute: How to Stop Lying: The Ultimate Cure Guide for Pathological Liars and Compulsive Liars.
NEWS AND NOTES:
Really, Randy Perkins? You Think Wounded Vets Owe YOU?
Chris Pack, spokesman for the National Republican Congressional Committee, kept his reaction short and definitive. “Randy Perkins is unfit to represent the people of Florida’s 18th District in the House of Representatives,” he said. READ
NRCC Says Joe Garcia Has Embarassed South Florida ‘Long Enough’ In New TV Spot
Joe Garcia has consistently embarrassed the people of South Florida with his never-ending scandals and lewd sexist comments,” said Chris Pack, an NRCC spokesman in a statement. “The people of South Florida deserve better than someone like Joe Garcia, who just doesn’t get it.” READ
New NRCC ad attacks Schneider in IL-10
The NRCC is out with a new TV ad faulting Democrat Brad Schneider for supporting the Iranian nuclear deal (which Schneider had previously opposed). “Schneider supports Washington’s dangerous deal with Iran 100 percent, even though Iran is the leading sponsor of terrorism.” Watch
NRCC Ad Knocks Myers and Babinec
The National Republican Congressional Committee on Tuesday released a TV ad knocking both the Democratic and independent candidates in the 22nd congressional district. READ
PA-8: NRCC Goes After Santarsiero in New TV Spot (VIDEO)
The NRCC is ratcheting up the fight against Steve Santarsiero. In a new thirty-second spot, titled “Dead End”, the GOP take aim at some of Santarsiero’s votes as a Township Supervisor and State Representative. READ
GOP poll: Bishop 53, Shkreli 34 in MI-08
GOP Rep. Mike Bishop has a big lead over his Democratic challenger in his suburban Detroit swing district, according to a new poll conducted for the NRCC and Bishop’s campaign. Bishop leads Democrat Suzanna Shkreli 53 percent to 34 percent among likely voters.
Poll: McSally has double-digit lead over Heinz in CD2
A new poll has Rep. Martha McSally well ahead of her Democratic challenger, physician Matt Heinz, in Congressional District 2. In a poll of 400 likely voters, Wilson Perkins Allen Research released results of a poll that has Republican incumbent, with 56 percent of the vote, while Heinz has 37 percent. Seven percent of those responding to the live phone poll were undecided. READ
Poll: Claudia Tenney leads in 3-way congressional race
State Assemblywoman Claudia Tenney is leading the three way race to succeed retiring Republican Rep. Richard Hanna in a new poll released Wednesday evening by Time Warner Cable News/Siena College. The Republican assemblywoman from New Hartford led Democrat Kim Myers of Vestal, 35 to 30 percent, in the survey 649 likely voters conducted Sept. 21-26. READ
Young Leads Mowrer by 15 Points in New Iowa 3rd Congressional District Poll
According to Open Secrets the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee is the only outside group that is significantly spending any money for Mowrer in the district, and they’ve only invested $34,000 more than the National Republican Congressional Committee has for Young. The American Wind Action 527 has also spent $190,000 in the district on behalf of Young. READ
Rep. Poliquin extends his lead over Cain in District 2
Republican U.S. Rep. Bruce Poliquin is widening a lead over Democratic challenger Emily Cain in the race to represent Maine’s 2nd District, according to a new poll by the Portland Press Herald/Maine Sunday Telegram. READ
Dold slams Iran nuke deal, Schneider says enforce it
Republican U.S. Rep. Bob Dold calls the United States’ nuclear agreement with Iran “a historic mistake” that won’t prevent that nation from getting a nuclear weapon. Dold also is concerned about how the pact separates Israel and the U.S. “Our national security is directly tied to the strength of Israel,” he said. READ
Suozzi passed major tax hikes in Nassau County
“Long Island voters who are actually living and breathing are clearly still unhappy with Suozzi raising taxes by hundreds of millions of dollars,” Chris Pack of the National Republican Congressional Committee said. READ