Subject: POLITICO's Morning Score: Club for Growth attacks Russ Feingold — Advancing Colorado goes after Sen. Michael Bennet — WALKER OUT
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Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2015 08:01:52 -0600

By Elena Schneider | 09/22/2015 10:00AM EDT

With Kevin Robillard

The following newsletter is an abridged version of Campaign Pro's Morning Score. For an earlier morning read on exponentially more races - and for a more comprehensive aggregation of the day's most important campaign news - sign up for Campaign Pro today. (http://www.politicopro.com/proinfo)

FIRST IN SCORE - AIR WAR, IN WISCONSIN - Club for Growth will launch a $700,000 ad buy against former Democratic Sen. Russ Feingold, with two spots that will air on broadcast and cable stations throughout Wisconsin, highlighting Feingold's record, which the group calls, "too liberal, too Washington, too yesterday." "In 2010, Wisconsin voters had enough of Feingold's support for bailouts, big government, and record debt," said David McIntosh, the group's president. "Club for Growth Action is putting up this initial round of television ads just in case any Wisconsinites need a reminder of why they should not let Russ Feingold and his liberal agenda back in office." 

- Watch "18 Long Years" here: http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=661877de2ee483028c2f5d5d755918dcaa071c95f17863fe949b1b95f3106243

- Watch "Remember" here: http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=661877de2ee4830208689d0f29a4dfc747993bae4a0691df070e89fed5a4b70b

FIRST IN SCORE - AIR WAR, IN COLORADO - Advancing Colorado, a free market advocacy group, will kick off a six-figure television ad buy in Denver, targeting Democratic Sen. Michael Bennet for his support of the Obama administration-backed Iran nuclear deal. The ad depicts children counting down from ten, when a nuclear bomb explodes, with an accompanying mushroom cloud with, "a nuclear Iran is a threat to the entire world," superimposed over the image. The ad goes on to say that Bennet's Iran vote "is jeopardizing our safety." Watch the ad -- billed as "shocking" on its YouTube entry-- here: http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=661877de2ee48302a7ce831d299423f994310d5b5048ac523b47e265419b3981

WALKER AFTERMATH - "The emergency meeting that led Walker to quit," by POLITICO'S Shane Goldmacher and Alex Isenstadt, with Kenneth P. Vogel, Katie Glueck and Kyle Cheney: "It's almost always bad news when a candidate's spouse calls an emergency meeting. But that's what happened late last week when Scott Walker's wife, Tonette, and his campaign chairman, Mike Grebe, reached out to a small number of longtime Walker aides and summoned them to the governor's mansion on Monday morning. ... The top of the agenda, according to campaign sources: polling and fundraising. And the numbers were bad. Shortly after the meeting wrapped, Walker arrived at his decision: He was out. It was a shocking and
 sudden move that blindsided many of Walker's closest allies, threw the power of super PACs into doubt, and opened opportunities for rivals to pick up patrons, staff, and supporters." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=661877de2ee48302f00cbd97b16901e57f74b6d6f622bba4e85ab5320edc61f0

- "How Scott Walker became an asterisk," by POLITICO's Glenn Thrush: "Before there was Donald Trump or Ben Carson or Carly Fiorina, there was Scott Walker - a defiant outsider who portrayed himself as the regular-guy champion of the GOP's burn-the-Beltway base. After a promising start last winter, the three-term Wisconsin governor turned out to be a tentative and mistake-prone candidate who badly fumbled core Republican issues - especially birthright citizenship - that Trump and other top GOP candidates handled with relative ease. Several senior Republicans with knowledge of his campaign said ... [Walker] was simply too confident in his own abilities and often acted, ineptly, as his own
 campaign manager. ... But his sudden exit from the race on Monday said just as much about the toxicity of the environment as the flaws of the man." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=661877de2ee483028edcbc45c1bbbf6cac4374923a07a970b730d2124886ff43

Days until the 2015 election: 42. Days until the 2016 election: 413.

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DSCC GOES SOCIAL - The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee will go after Republican senators who are seeking reelection in 2016, targeting them on whether they will support shutting down the government over defunding Planned Parenthood in ads on Twitter and Facebook, CNN reported. The nine GOP senators include Sens. Pat Toomey (R-Penn.), Mark Kirk (R-Ill.), Richard Burr (R-N.C.), Kelly Ayotte (R-N.H.), Rob Portman (R-Ohio), Ron Johnson (R-Wisc.), Roy Blunt (R-Mo.), John McCain (R-Ariz.), Rand Paul (R-Ky.). http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=661877de2ee48302521c1269cda9c5e4bee0be06eb06da76f8bf81a50e5c7c79 

DAVIS OPEN TO ANOTHER RUN - Failed Democratic Texas gubernatorial candidate Wendy Davis told Rolling Stone in an interview she hoped to run for office again. "I have no particular path in mind at this point," she told the magazine. "I am simply keeping myself open for opportunities that make sense." Davis also said she feels her "voice was getting lost" as the months went by during her campaign against now-Gov. Greg Abbott. http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=661877de2ee483020007e926510b3f8119f5ae064dc50ce42fbfc5902863436a

PRESIDENTIAL SPEED READ - SOUTHERN STRATEGY - "Hillary Clinton taps Arkansas network in bid to finish Sanders," by POLITICO's Gabriel Debenedetti in Little Rock, Ark.: " ... The former first lady has returned to her onetime home state to court Democratic convention-goers, knowing every southern delegate could prove crucial to ending Bernie Sanders' run. ... But local officials caution that her support in Arkansas doesn't guarantee primary victory. Clinton doesn't have any paid staffers on the ground there. Her network of longtime connections is still active, which gives her an advantage over Sanders, but Monday's visit is only her second to the state since she announced her candidacy in
 April in a region that the Brooklyn braintrust sees as critical to her win." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=661877de2ee48302ee39b448308d37282298236737557d582da8f0a8068dea18 

- "Biden insiders feel Clinton stalking," by POLITICO's Edward-Isaac Dovere: "Clinton and her aides have their line - the vice president deserves the time and space to decide, they repeat over and over and over - and so far they've held off the heavy artillery. Instead, they're firing warning shots. Tightly targeted warning shots. The hints from the campaign come in heavy: Biden would be to Clinton's right if he ran, more out of touch with the party's progressive base. Surrogates have sounded off, questioning his chances and his political abilities, wondering if he'd be up to the job. Clinton even leapt in herself, bringing him up out of nowhere as she spoke to a woman in a diner last week
 in New Hampshire to knock him for how disappointing he'd been when they were working on the bankruptcy bill in the Senate. That was followed by her campaign chair John Podesta, sprinkling a little of his own shade in front of the pro-Clinton Priorities super PAC in New York - it's already too late for Biden to mount a real challenge, and he's not going to decide for a few more weeks on top of that." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=661877de2ee483021c6ef043586f857f6dec519207e9149286eac8f9e20cb603

- "Rubio staffer won't be charged for shoving incident," by POLITICO's Daniel Strauss: "The prosecutor for Michigan's Mackinac County said he won't file charges against a top campaign staffer for Sen. Marco Rubio who was accused of assaulting Sen. Rand Paul's Michigan strategist last week. http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=661877de2ee48302a4d3b86922b7c234444cfbc6c52c6cf2c2b81fbe92df1a84

MONEY STANCE - The Sunlight Foundation President Chris Gates wants to know where all the presidential candidates stand on campaign finance. He wrote a blog post about the six "fundamental questions" he wants answered, including: "Should the Citizens United and McCutcheon Supreme Court rulings be overturned? ... Should super PACs supporting your candidacy turn away donations when their source can't be traced to a specific donor?" Read the rest here: http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=661877de2ee48302ffa74b1f870bb8bd4a356c7a19ecb365af79ad1a9f0b90c6 

CODA - QUOTE OF THE DAY: "I know Sen. Vitter has promised at least three people the U.S. Senate seat." - Louisiana Lt. Gov. Jay Dardenne (via a tweet from Times-Pic reporter Julia O'Donoghue) http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=661877de2ee48302dbec9defdf9fb93453df257953af566f2dc51f8b389fa0ff

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