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Controversial 'Cash B*tch' Ad Leaves Turn Right USA Super PAC $8K In Debt

Ryan J. Reilly | July 26, 2011, 6:00AM

Donors didn't exactly throw money at the political action committee behind an offensive campaign video that featured "gangsters" tossing cash at a stripper portraying Rep. Janice Hahn (D-CA), who won the special election for CA-36 earlier this month.

Turn Right USA's recent report to the Federal Election Commission (FEC) shows the group took in just $285 in July, a reporting period that covered the two-week period after the group released the controversial Internet video aimed at drawing attention to Hahn's supposed connections to "hardcore gangsters."

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Topics: FEC, Federal Election Commission, Janice Hahn, Turn Right USA

Janice Hahn

Director Of CA-36 'Stripper' Ad Says He Reset Hahn Election

Ryan J. Reilly | July 13, 2011, 9:20AM

In an exclusive interview with TPM, the creator of what has been called the most offensive political ad in history claimed credit for resetting the election and forcing Democrats into defense mode ahead of Janice Hahn's win in the special election to replace Rep. Jane Harman (D-CA).

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Topics: Janice Hahn, Ladd Ehlinger Jr., Turn Right USA

Federal Election Commission

Inside Turn Right USA, The Group Behind The Most Offensive Political Ad Ever

Ryan J. Reilly | June 16, 2011, 9:30AM

The treasurer of a new "super PAC" which released what has been called the most offensive political advertisement in history is considering disassociating himself with Turn Right USA because he "just can't approve" of an ad featuring an actress portraying a pole-dancer in booty shorts standing in for a Democrat running for Congress.

"It's not something I would have produced. I have a little bit more class than that," treasurer Claude Todoroff told TPM in an interview. "I just don't approve of that video. 'Gimme the money bitch' and a person doing a pole dance. ... that's not the kind of image I'd like to display."