Subject: POLITICO's Morning Score, presented by Pandora: Left rips Denver Post for Gardner endorsement — Carter trashes Deal’s deal — Can GOP create a wave?
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Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2014 08:07:12 -0600

By Kyle Cheney

With James Hohmann and Steven Shepard

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SNEAK PEEK -MoveOn and NARAL are taking out a full-page ad in the Sunday Denver Post to rebut the paper's recent editorial endorsing Republican Cory Gardner for Senate. "Coloradans won't be fooled, even if The Denver Post was," the ad reads, ripping Gardner for his positions on abortion, pollution and immigration. 
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EXCLUSIVE - Tisei on the air with contrast spot in MA-06: Republican Richard Tisei is going on the air with a 30-second spot that calls Democrat Seth Moulton untrustworthy and supported by "Wall Street special interests." Looking into the camera, Tisei mentions his husband, Bernie Starr, and says he'll fight "for working families, the disabled, seniors and small businesses." The ad is supported by a six-figure buy, according to Tisei's campaign. 
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- The spot comes as the DCCC signaled plans to shift dollars away from Moulton, confident they'll keep the seat Democratic in November. POLITICO's Alex Isenstadt reports the decision cuts short about $430,000 of air time the committee had planned on Moulton's behalf. Another $800,000 marked for two vulnerable New Hampshire Democrats is still on track to be spent. 
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AIR WARS - Carter camp nails Deal on ethics issues: Democrat Jason Carter is on the air this morning with an ad targeting Georgia's GOP Gov. Nathan Deal for what it describes as enriching himself while in office. "How'd he get rich? Deal sold his salvage yard for over $3 million to a company that owes Georgia $74 million in back taxes," a female narrator says. "Nathan Deal, putting money in his pocket, not ours." It's a hard-hitting spot as Democrats hope to inch ahead in a tight race against the incumbent. 
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- Tillis rips Hagan on stimulus vote: North Carolina Republican Senate candidate Thom Tillis is launching his first ad Friday that suggests his opponent personally profited from the stimulus. The 30-second spot, 
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shared first with POLITICO , notes that Democratic Sen. Kay Hagan's husband co-owns a company that received nearly 
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$390,000  in federal grants for energy projects and tax credits created by the 2009 stimulus law."She's 96 percent for [Barack] Obama, 100 percent for herself," says a narrator.The ad, produced by OnMessage Inc., will air statewide and comes as the National Republican Senatorial Committee invests $6.5 million more in the Tar Heel State. 
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- First in Score: DCCC slams Republicans in AZ-01 and TX-23: The committee is out with a pair of spots this morning hitting Arizona Republican Andy Tobin - the state House speaker - for cuts to education funding, and Texas Republican Will Hurd for what it says is favoring millionairs over seniors, students and the middle class. The AZ-01 ad: 
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POPPING THIS MORNING - GOP trying to turn ripple into a wave, by POLITICO's Alex Isenstadt: 

"Aiming to stretch the political map, two prominent conservative groups, American Action Network and Congressional Leadership Fund,on Friday will announce a joint $3 million investment in seven House races, including contests in deep blue districts that are just now starting to be seen as realistic targets for Republicans ... The coming offensive will reach as far as President Barack Obama's home state of Hawaii, where recent polling in one district has shown Republicans to be surprisingly competitive. It will also take them to a liberal northeastern Iowa seat where Democrats are suddenly on defense, and to an upstate New York district not long ago seen as safe for the president's party." 
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FIRST IN SCORE - RNC gambles to ride wave: The RNC said earlier this week that strong fundraising in September ($13.3 million) had allowed them to transfer an additional $4 million to the NRSC, $1 million to the NRCC and $1.5 million to state parties with key Senate races. Just ahead of the Oct. 20 deadline to report their financial activities to the RNC, the committee tells POLITICO Campaign Pro that they also took out a $5 million loan to help finance those transfers, arguing that the favorable environment warrants additional investment. "This is the time when you double down to win," RNC Chairman Reince Priebus said. "I feel really good about where our campaigns are, and we're going to
 do everything we can to take back the Senate in November."

As Rick Scott pushes back on fan-demonium and Connecticut partisans get physical, here&#39;s POLITICO&#39;s Morning Score: your daily guide to the 2014 midterms.

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FANNING A CONTROVERSY - Scott shrugs off fan-gate: Florida Gov. Rick Scott defended his role in a public spat with Democrat Charlie Crist over Crist's use of an electric fan during a Wednesday night debate. Speaking on CNN's The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer, Scott insisted that he wasn't even aware of the fan controversy until later. Despite numerous reports that he refused to join Crist on stage as a result of the fan, Scott told the station that he was simply sitting around waiting for the debate organizers to give him the green light.

But the Miami Herald reports that the Scott camp was angry about the fan before the debate: "As Scott waited in an RV parked outside, his advisers loudly protested the presence of Crist's portable fan, which he has used for years to appear cool under hot TV lights. Scott's advisers urged Wendy Walker of Leadership Florida and Dean Ridings of the Florida Press Association to end the debate before it started. But the host station, Miami's WFOR, refused to pull the plug. Scott debate adviser Brett O'Donnell found WFOR news director Liz Roldan and started yelling about the fan. Dan Gelber, Crist's debate point man, insisted the fan would stay. Roldan, who declined to comment for this story,
 stood firm. 'We're producing the debate,' she said. 'We go live at 7.'" 
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POLICY ON THE BALLOT - Advocacy group plans to play in 2014 and 2016: Save the Children Action Network, the political arm of a nonprofit focused on early intervention services for kids, is hoping to make a splash in the midterms with a series of ads in battleground states - a preview of what the group says will also be a full-throttle effort in 2016. It's an early look at what the group says is an attempt to advance a specific policy goal through sophisticated political advocacy. So far, the group's ads have been aimed at thanking supportive elected officials from local, state and federal governments. It's also touting "extensive polling and research work" by Republican firm TargetPoint
 Consulting and Democratic firm Greenberg Quinlan Rosner to help identify target demographics in the races it's watching, including IL-08 and CA-07 House races. 
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FIGHT NIGHT - Score's roundup of last night's debates:

IA-Sen: "Iowa Senate candidates clash on Ebola," by Campaign Pro's James Hohmann: Thursday night's debate between Democrat Bruce Braley and Republican Joni Ernst featured a heavy focus on ebola and the government's response to the outbreak. Pro's Hohmann reports: "Braley, locked in a margin-of-error race, said at the start of his hour-long meeting with Republican Joni Ernst at Morningside College in Sioux City that he asked 'tough questions and demanded answers' during a House Energy and Commerce subcommittee hearing earlier in the day ...'We need to do more,' responded Ernst. 'Unfortunately our administration, including Congressman Braley, has been very reactive, rather than proactive.'"
 The debate also featured fights over personhood, foreign policy and negative ads. 
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ME-02: The second debate between Republican Bruce Poliquin and Democrat Emily Cain got testy as the two were offered a chance to ask questionns of each other, CentralMaine.com reports: 
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CT-Gov: An increasingly tense contest between Gov. Dan Malloy and Republican Tom Foley got even sharper Thursday - and spilled into the streets, where supporters of each candidate scuffled ahead of the pair's second debate of the week and fifth overall, The Day reports: 
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D.C. Mayor: Democrat Muriel Bowser easily won the Ward 8 straw poll that followed Thursday night's debate at Anacostia H.S.; the debate was recorded and will air tonight at 7 p.m. on WUSA-TV. 
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AIR WARS, CONT'D -- Foley family wants son out of conservative attack ad: "The parents of James Foley called on the conservative group Secure America Now to take down web ads that use a picture of their son just before he was beheaded by ISIL ... 'I think it is deplorable, and there should be an apology,' John Foley told the New England Cable News channel today. The ad: 
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IOWA - "Ernst pushes back against sexual harassment suit," by Campaign Pro's James Hohmann: "Republican Senate candidate Joni Ernst is pushing back after being mentioned in a sexual harassment lawsuit filed today by the former communications director for the Iowa state Senate Republican Caucus Kirsten Anderson, 35, was fired last year and says it was because she brought forward allegations of sexual harassment against her former boss. Ernst is not a party to the case ...Indeed, the lawsuit mentions Ernst only once in passing. 'By way of just one example, Sen. Joni Ernst of Red Oak and Sen. Sandra Greiner of Keota witnessed sexual innuendo and inappropriate behavior exhibited by their male
 colleagues and did and said nothing while female staffers stood by unable to say anything,' the suit says." 
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"As Dems sweat Iowa, Harkin sits on millions," by POLITICO's Manu Raju and John Bresnahan: "Senate Democrats are pleading with donors to give to Rep. Bruce Braley's campaign ... But there's one key player holding onto his campaign cash: Iowa Sen. Tom Harkin. Despite direct appeals from Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and other top Democrats, Harkin has refused to transfer money from his $2.4 million campaign account to the [DSCC], according to sources and campaign finance records.

"Instead, the retiring Iowa senator has informed party leaders that he plans to use the campaign funds for a charitable contribution to an entity that bears his name: The Harkin Institute for Public Policy and Citizen Engagement at Drake University in Des Moines, according to sources close to discussions with the senator." 
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"Bill Clinton to Louisiana for Landrieu," by Campaign Pro's James Hohmann: "Former President Bill Clinton will campaign in Louisiana on Monday with Democratic Sen. Mary Landrieu, joining the endangered incumbent in the state capital of Baton Rouge. Clinton, unlike President Barack Obama, can be an effective surrogate in the red Southern states where the Democratic majority hangs in the balance. The visit, Clinton's second for Landrieu this election cycle, comes a day before the start of early voting, which runs from Oct. 21-28." 
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FACTCHECK.ORG WHOPPER OF THE WEEK - The Kentucky Senate race is becoming the home of the Whopper. Last week, Democratic candidate Alison Lundergan Grimes was our "winner" and this week it's Republican Sen. Mitch McConnell. A McConnell ad purports to show "shocking" video evidence from Grimes' "own staff" that proves "Grimes is lying" about her support for coal. But these are not the Watergate tapes. None of those featured in the ad is a paid staffer with the Grimes campaign, and all of them are expressing their personal opinions - not revealing campaign strategy. The Grimes supporters were surreptitiously videotaped by conservative activist James O'Keefe's 
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Project Veritas Action Fund  as they were meeting with undercover actors who posed as liberals concerned about Grimes' coal-friendly statements. The McConnell campaign says "Grimes is lying" without considering the possibility that the supporters shown in the video are just telling the undercover actors what they think the actors want to hear. Full story: "
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No Proof of 'Lying.' "

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CODA - QUOTE OF THE DAY: "Perhaps he was just too busy as an attorney representing a guy who was convicted of spying for communist China or perhaps he was lobbying for some big outfit on Wall Street, but the fact is I voted against the Affordable Care Act." - Democrat Mike Ross during a nasty 90-minute debate in the Arkansas gubernatorial race. 
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