Short one but a sweet one to start off the week:
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/...
In a dark new web ad, Alison Lundergan Grimes hits Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) for signaling confrontation that could spark a government shutdown if he becomes majority leader.
The spot — published Monday on the Democrat's YouTube page — plays news clips, spliced with ominous music, about the economically damaging shutdown last fall which one anchor is seen saying it was "hurting Kentuckians."
"And Mitch McConnell wants to do it again," the ad says, displaying headlines of McConnell's recent remarks to Politico in which he vowed to use bills which keep the government operational as a vehicle to rein in President Barack Obama's policies.
A Grimes spokesperson said it was a "web ad" that the campaign was spending "thousands" of dollars on as part of a week-long effort to hit McConnell on the issue. - TPM, 8/25/14
Grimes is hitting McConnell over indicating he would shutdown the government as Senate Majority Leader in order to get his way on spending:
http://dyn.politico.com/...
In an extensive interview here, the typically reserved McConnell laid out his clearest thinking yet of how he would lead the Senate if Republicans gain control of the chamber. The emerging strategy: Attach riders to spending bills that would limit Obama policies on everything from the environment to health care, consider using an arcane budget tactic to circumvent Democratic filibusters and force the president to “move to the center” if he wants to get any new legislation through Congress.
In short, it’s a recipe for a confrontational end to the Obama presidency.
“We’re going to pass spending bills, and they’re going to have a lot of restrictions on the activities of the bureaucracy,” McConnell said in an interview aboard his campaign bus traveling through Western Kentucky coal country. “That’s something he won’t like, but that will be done. I guarantee it.”
McConnell is facing one of the toughest reelection battles of his three-decade Senate career. But Republicans are tantalizingly close to winning majorities in both houses of Congress for the first time in nearly a decade, and McConnell is making an aggressive pitch to voters here that they have the chance to pick the Senate’s next majority leader.
But there are clear risks for McConnell. First, he must defeat a spirited Democratic challenger in November, while hoping that the class of Senate candidates he helped recruit doesn’t blow the GOP’s best chance in years to retake the majority. And, perhaps just as challenging, McConnell would need to bring unity to a party that is struggling to overcome divisions between establishment stalwarts like himself and young GOP upstarts pushing for conservative purity. - Politico, 8/20/14
The government shutdown took a hit to McConnell and the GOP's image in the polls. Reminding voters that they could do this again if they're in power is a good strategy. Lets help Grimes get the message out so please do contribute and get involved with her campaign:
http://alisonforkentucky.com/