Subject: [big campaign] Re: Campaign Money Watch Expands Kentucky Ad Buy
From: "David Donnelly" <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Cc: [email-masked]
Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2008 13:46:06 -0400
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One slight correction on the link (which picked up a comma along the way):

http://www.bigmoneymitch.com

On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 1:12 PM, David Miller <[email-masked]>wrote:

>    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
> Wednesday, October 29, 2008
>
> CONTACT
> *David Donnelly*, Director
> (617) 899-1084
> *
> David Miller*, Communications Manager
> (202) 448-6154
>
>
> *Campaign Money Watch Announces Expanded Television Buy In Kentucky
> **Group's spending nears $1.2 million to challenge McConnell on his
> "clout"
>   *
>
>             Washington, D.C. – Campaign Money Watch, a national nonpartisan
> campaign finance watchdog group, announced today that it has increased by
> $800,000 its television ad campaign in Kentucky aimed at holding Senate
> Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) accountable for using his "clout" to
> help donors and special interests, not his constituents.
>
>             The group's ad, available online at
> http://www.bigmoneymitch.com, will now air in virtually every media market
> in the Commonwealth.
>
>             "Mitch McConnell has made a long career out of blocking and
> obstructing legislation in Washington, but he is known principally for his
> radical opposition to all campaign finance reform and his love of special
> interest fundraising," said David Donnelly, Campaign Money Watch's director.
> "Now he's telling Kentuckians that he has clout and power. It's fair to ask,
> as our ad does, who does he use the clout for?"
>
>             Last week, Campaign Money Watch announced a $385,000 purchase
> of airtime in three markets – Lexington, Louisville and northern Kentucky.
> This week's additional buy brings the group's spending to $1,185,000 across
> broadcast and cable in seven media markets.
>
>             "McConnell wanted a debate on his own clout and now he's got
> one," Donnelly said. "I think Mitch McConnell, in talking about his power in
> the Senate, is the only politician in America who is running *with*Washington, not
> *against* it."
>
>             Republican Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell's opposition
> to campaign finance reform and public financing of elections is well
> documented. He led filibusters against campaign finance reform throughout
> the late 1990s. McConnell threatened business leaders who supported reform
> with implied legislative retribution. He sued the federal government – and
> lost – over the McCain-Feingold law. In June 2007, McConnell testified
> before his own Senate Rules Committee in opposition to the bipartisan Fair
> Elections Now Act, a bill to make public money available to candidates who
> agree to spending limits.
>
>             Campaign Money Watch has a successful history of holding
> politicians accountable who oppose reform. The group led the effort to drive
> indicted former Majority Leader Tom DeLay from office, as well as conducted
> a voter education effort in Ralph Reed's primary race for lieutenant
> governor in Georgia. Campaign Money Watch is a project of Public Campaign
> Action Fund.
>
>
> ###
>
>
> --
> David Miller
> Communications/Web Manager
> Public Campaign Action Fund/Campaign Money Watch
> 1828 L St. NW #250
> Washington, DC 20036
> (202) 448-6154
>
> >
>

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