Ads to Target 5 GOPers During Stimulus Debate
EmailABC News’ Teddy Davis reports:
A coalition of liberal groups, called "Campaign for Jobs and Economic Recovery," launched a television ad Thursday urging five Republican senators to back President Barack Obama’s economic stimulus bill.
The five senators targeted are Maine Sens. Susan Collins and Olympia Snowe, New Hampshire Sen. Judd Gregg, Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski, and Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley.
Three of the five senators — Grassley, Gregg, and Murkowski — are running for re-election in 2010.
"Tell Sen. Gregg to support the Obama plan for jobs, not the failed policies of the past," says the ad’s narrator in the Gregg version of the ad.
Watch the ads here.
Grassley was chosen as a target, according to the group’s spokesman, because he sits on the Senate Finance Committee which reported the bill. The other four senators were chosen because "they are moderate Republicans that we felt we had the best chance of convincing," said Jeremy Funk, spokesman for "Campaign for Jobs and Economic Recovery."
"Campaign for Jobs and Economic Recovery" is spending $500,000 in total to air the 30-second ads during the stimulus debate in the Senate.
The ads will air on local broadcast television in the senators’ home states. There is also a national version of the ad which will air on cable in the Washington, D.C., market.
The ads are paid for by a coalition of progressive groups including Americans United for Change, MoveOn.org, AFSCME, and SEIU.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid expects to begin debating the stimulus bill Monday.
ABC News’ Ferdous Al-Faruque contributed to this report.
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I can hardly wait to throw these GOP
(Grossly Offensive Punks) OUT on their BUTTS in 2010. The Irrelevant Party STILL hasn’t learned it’s lessons from 06 and 08.
Posted by: Leprkin | January 29, 2009, 1:04 pm 1:04 pm
I wish that “Campaigns for Jobs and Economic Recovery” was more concerned with getting a GOOD bill passed and not just one that throws a bunch of money at their pet pigs.
Posted by: I'm With Stupid | January 29, 2009, 1:05 pm 1:05 pm
Good. I say ‘bring it on’.
Posted by: hang | January 29, 2009, 1:09 pm 1:09 pm
Congressional Budget Office chief Douglas Elmendorf told the House Budget Committee this week.
Still, a glimpse of what might help the most was provided by the CBO analysis of the economic boost it estimates will come from the various provisions of the $825 billion stimulus legislation written in the House. Those that produce the most bang for the buck — about $2.50 in added economic growth for every dollar spent — are the precise opposite of what we’ve been doing until now. They are the very sorts of initiatives congressional Republicans still largely oppose.
The direct purchase of goods and services by the federal government produces as much as $2.50 in growth over several quarters, the CBO says. A dollar transferred to state and local governments for infrastructure spending also is estimated to produce $2.50 in growth. Getting money directly to people through programs such as expanded unemployment benefits and food assistance is estimated to produce $2.20 in growth. And general aid to states to alleviate the problems in balancing their budgets in the face of rapidly deteriorating revenues and rapidly increasing demand for basic public services would produce $1.90.
What element is the least effective? Giving businesses a way to cut their taxes by charging losses that are incurred now against profits made in prior years only produces about 40 cents worth of growth for every dollar spent, the CBO says. It also happens to be the part of the legislation House Republicans are most happy with.
(Marie Cocco – RCP)
Posted by: Paige | January 29, 2009, 1:11 pm 1:11 pm
So much for Change. The Poster from 1:04:33 was not able to state their position without falling back on personal insults and attacks along with demeaning an entire political party. Because of people like this, Obama will not get his much sought after second term in the Oval office.
Posted by: Sarah | January 29, 2009, 1:16 pm 1:16 pm
Looks like 2010 may bring an end to the GOP (Greedy Old Party).
Posted by: pt | January 29, 2009, 1:26 pm 1:26 pm
pt – I could not agree more. The individual gunning for the RNC Chair position has the lovely promotional CD with songs, Barack the Magic Negro and the Star Spanglish Banner ; Republican Congressman Gingrey from Georgia said yesterday that “Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity are the voices of the conservative movement’s conscience”
God help us all.
Posted by: Paige | January 29, 2009, 1:36 pm 1:36 pm
GOP stands for Grand Obstructionist Party. If it’s good for middle class Americans, you can bet the GOP are against it. Rest assured, more of them are gonna be looking for jobs next election.
Posted by: Clint | January 29, 2009, 1:42 pm 1:42 pm
People seem to think stimulus money is free. No one really seems to care the the cost of everything will escalate again in less than a year and we will all have to pay for the stimulus plus interest in the form of inflation.
Posted by: Max | January 29, 2009, 1:48 pm 1:48 pm
Being unemployed is NO JOKE!!!!
Thank you, Mr. President for looking out for the little people that are STRUGGLING!!!!!
It’s better than NO HELP AT ALL!!!!
PEACE!!!!!
Posted by: sisterdearest09 | January 29, 2009, 1:51 pm 1:51 pm
I have an Idea why cant they Take a chunk of that Money and Rebuild Factories and Start Making things Here In America Again? Instead of Relying on China,Mexico for our Goods With Factories and Infrastructure Jobs will be Produced Like crazy!
Posted by: Angie | January 29, 2009, 1:55 pm 1:55 pm
This targeting of individual senators by partisan special interest groups is so wrong in so many ways. It stinks. Debate is healthy and deserves respect, no matter which party is “obstructing”.
Pointing out unnecessary spending is hardly against the middle class who pays for all these “investments”. Look behind the words people.
Posted by: justahousewife | January 29, 2009, 2:01 pm 2:01 pm
what a group of whing crybabies you liberals are.
LOL, you won, you control the congress, and still you sit in the middle of the National Mall with your ball crying “No one will play with me!!!”
Perhaps one reason that the public sentiment is turning towards slow down and lets actually look at this bill is because of the way Liberals rushed through the TARP bill and then provided ZERO oversight, and today whine & fuss that the previous administration spent it wrong! Since they cant track a single dollar of it, I find it interesting that they think it was spent wrong.
That stimulus bill as it was first presented was FULL of CRAP! Pelosi looked more incompetent than usual going on TV to defend spending millions for birth control as somwhow being a way to stimulate job growth! AND you fools wonder why Congress’s approval numbers were miles below Bush’s!!!
That bill was written by Democrats 100%! And instead of change, we just more of the same old game!
Obama choked on a huge opportunity to SHOW Americans he was serious about change. He should ahve publically humiliated Pelosi by demanding that she take that bill back and remove all the garbage spending! He should have stood up to his party on this and used the “Bully Pulpit” to re-state his claim to change how Washington worked, and if they refused to follow his lead, He would use his VETO power!
That would have been real change I would beleive in!
Of course, He never even considered that option, and that was why Pelosi tried to slide that mess through! This is why you need an opposition party, so things like this get caught!
Posted by: Mike_C | January 29, 2009, 2:44 pm 2:44 pm
That bill was written by Democrats 100%! And instead of change, we just more of the same old game!
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Republicans requested one meeting with Obama, yet it was the president who invited them in and brought them back twice for input and discussion. Not only did he listen to Republican ideas, he incorporated them into the stimulus. Including tax cuts and the removal of some Democratic provisions Obama is now taking heat over.
He compromised – they had zero intention.
Posted by: Paige | January 29, 2009, 3:27 pm 3:27 pm
Why do President Obama and the
Democrats need Republican support for
this non-stimulus, bad bill?
They have the votes to pass it on their
own and should do so and Stop Whining!
It’s your baby, Dems, you sink or swim
with the results!
You’re in charge now.
You either get the glory or the blame!
Deal with it!
Posted by: reaganfan | January 29, 2009, 3:43 pm 3:43 pm
Why does the media not see fit to mention that eleven members of the Democratic Party did not vote for this stimulus package either. Also, who is it going to help: BIG BUSINESS. It is not going to help the average American at all. We are still going to be wondering from one day to the next how to make ends meet.
Posted by: BHSuperwoman | January 30, 2009, 11:14 am 11:14 am