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Club For Growth Misses The Point In New Anti-Young Ad

Someone is finally going directly after GOP Congressman Don Young over his suspicious earmark for the Coconut Road interchange in Florida — but they’re just skimming the surface.

The Club For Growth, which is backing Young’s GOP primary challenger Sean Parnell, is airing this new ad attacking Young for putting a $10 million earmark for Florida in the budget in order to benefit a contributor:

Unfortunately, the ad doesn’t mention the really juicy part — that Young’s staff inserted the earmark in after the whole budget had passed in Congress, making the whole thing almost certainly unconstitutional as well as ethically questionable.

If this whole blogging thing doesn’t work out, maybe we’ll go into the ad-writing business.

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