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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.
Josh
Zachary
Club For Growth Misses The Point? Can't imagine that. They've been so right about all of their financial positions over the last 8 years!
August 14, 2008 5:21 PM | Reply | Permalink
haven't you been watching "Mad Men" ???
honesty and accuracy have no place in advertising
don't quit yer day job
if you call this a "day job"
August 14, 2008 7:46 PM | Reply | Permalink
Alaskan republicans are so corrupt and stupid I'm starting to think Texas must have flushed its rejects north of the border.
August 14, 2008 8:50 PM | Reply | Permalink
Texas flushed, but I think it stopped in Oklahoma (see Inhofe, Coburn).
Maybe they hit Alaska with the 2nd flush :D
August 15, 2008 1:31 AM | Reply | Permalink
New slogan: 'They are not only cheap, they're easy.'
We can't wait for Don to be gone.
August 14, 2008 10:46 PM | Reply | Permalink
A reminder:
In September of 2007, TPm Muckraker covered Diane Benson's written request to the House Ethics Committee (Committee on Standards and Conduct), requesting an investigation into the unconstitutional changes.
It is remarkable that the early and courageous actions by this iconic figure in women's rights and civil rights in Alaska, marginalized by her own Democratic Party, and now neglected by TPM Muckraker, are being characterized by the Club for Growth for what they were - the right thing to do.
And, of course, the Club for Growth, just like TPM Muck and the Alaska Democratic Party, forget where all this querying started - at least in the realm of public figures.
The research efforts by TPM back in the late summer of 2007 were remarkable, but acknowledgment of Benson's efforts in September of 2007 warrant notice.
August 15, 2008 11:50 AM | Reply | Permalink