Subject: [big campaign] FW: Watchdog's New TV Ad Takes Aim At McConnell's "Clout"
From: David Donnelly <[email-masked]>
To: big campaign <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2008 11:53:44 -0400
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http://www.bigmoneymitch.com

A PRESS RELEASE FROM CAMPAIGN MONEY WATCH
 
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Wednesday, October 22, 2008
 
CONTACT
David Miller, Communications Manager
(202) 448-6154
 
Watchdog Group Takes Aim At McConnell¹s ³Clout² In New Television Ad
 
³Big Money Mitch² Using His Influence To Help Donors, Lobbyists, and Special
Interests, Not Kentucky Voters
 
Washington, D.C.  Today Campaign Money Watch, a nonpartisan campaign
finance watchdog group, announced the release of a new television ad calling
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell¹s (R-KY) ³clout² into question. The
ad connects McConnell¹s multimillion dollar fundraising from the health
care, investment, and insurance industries to the senator¹s voting record of
blocking efforts to help his Kentucky constituents.
 
³Mitch McConnell¹s clout is well-known to the big money special interests
and Washington lobbyists, but to average Kentuckians he¹s stood in the way
on health care and retirement security,² said David Donnelly, director of
Campaign Money Watch. ³Sen. McConnell loves money, and he is one of the
country¹s biggest defenders of the money-drenched, lobbyist-driven status
quo in Congress.²
 
Titled ³Clout,² the ad urges voters to contact McConnell to tell him to stop
opposing comprehensive campaign finance reform. It can be seen at
http://www.BigMoneyMitch.com. It will begin airing today in the Louisville,
Lexington and Cincinnati markets.
 
As the ad details, McConnell took $2 million from pharmaceutical, insurance,
and HMO interests and opposed efforts to lower drug prices for seniors.
McConnell received $1.3 million from Wall Street and the financial sector
and he¹s supported risking Social Security funds in the stock market.
 
On Tuesday, Campaign Money Watch launched BigMoneyMitch.com, a new effort
that offers a daily look at how McConnell puts the needs of his donors ahead
of voters on issue after issue. The site will examine one issue each day for
the next few weeks. The online campaign will also encourage supporters to
write letters to local newspapers to spread the word about McConnell¹s
pay-to-play politics and opposition to reform.
 
³As the chief apologist for a broken system, Sen. McConnell is responsible
for the way wealthy donors and powerful lobbyists have had their way in
Congress,² Donnelly said. ³Sen. McConnell may be driving all over Kentucky
this week, but there¹s no way he can escape the fact that he appears to care
more about money than people back home.²
 
Campaign Money Watch is a project of the nonpartisan Public Campaign Action
Fund. The organization works to hold politicians who are against
comprehensive campaign finance reform accountable for where they get their
political donations.
 
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