I like it!
http://abcnews.go.com/...
Alison Lundergan Grimes is out with a new television ad hitting her opponent, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell on comments he made about his role in job creation in April.
ABC News got a sneak peak of Grimes’ second television ad featuring Kentuckians asking questions to McConnell. The ad—titled “Question from David”–begins with Grimes sitting next to David Stanley from Putney, Kentucky outside of a gas station.
“I’m Alison Lundergan Grimes and David Stanley lost his coal mining job in Letcher County, and he has this question for Senator McConnell,” Grimes says.
“Mr. McConnell, in the last two years, we’ve lost almost half of our coal jobs in Eastern Kentucky. Why’d you say it’s not your job to bring jobs to Kentucky?,” Stanley said, before taking a long pause.
There is no answer, but Grimes then says, “I couldn’t believe he said that either.”
“I approved this message because, Senator, that’ll be my number one job,” she says, while looking directly into the camera.
The ad refers to McConnell being asked by the Beattyville Enterprise in April what he would do to bring jobs to the county.
“Economic development is a Frankfort issue,” McConnell said then, according to the paper. “That is not my job. It is the primary responsibility of the state Commerce Cabinet.” - ABC News, 7/22/14
And of course McConnell is not happy about it:
http://www.washingtontimes.com/...
The McConnell camp countered that the ad is the latest example of how Mrs. Grimes is basing “her entire campaign on mischaracterizations and outright falsehoods.”
“We’re one year into Alison Lundergan Grimes‘ candidacy and the only factual argument for her campaign is that she’s Barack Obama’s Kentucky candidate,” said Allison Moore, a McConnell campaign spokesperson.
They campaign said that Mr. McConnell has protected jobs in the coal industry from the job-killing regulations pursued by President Obama.
This is the second ad in which Mrs. Grimes has had a coal miner pose a question of Mr. McConnell. The first featured Don Disney, a retired miner, who asked Mr. McConnell why he “voted to raise my Medicare costs to $6,000?”
The McConnell campaign said that ad also twisted the truth and said Mrs. Grimes was resorting to a scare tactic because her campaign was hitting the panic button. - Washington Times, 7/22/14
Boo hoo hoo. Really quickly, one of McConnell's old foes is back in the press:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/...
The price tag of businessman Matt Bevin's primary loss to Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.): a cool $5.3 million.
A review of Bevin's most recent quarterly fundraising report, which was filed with the Federal Election Commission last week, also shows he loaned his campaign nearly $1.6 million of his own money, which he has yet to repay. He raised an additional $3.8 million from donors.
McConnell skated to victory in the May 20 primary, defeating Bevin, who ran to his right, 60 percent to 36 percent.
Bevin's spending is easily tops among challengers who tried to unseat sitting U.S. senators in a primaries this year. So far, no senator has lost.
Still, McConnell had to work for his win. He spent a whopping $11.6 million through the end of June, much of which was for the primary. - Washington Post, 7/22/14
Grimes has been kicking ass and we need to make sure this ad stays on the air. Click here to donate and get involved with her campaign:
http://alisonforkentucky.com/