Subject: [big campaign] Campaign Money Watch Expands Kentucky Ad Buy
From: David Miller <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2008 13:12:17 -0400
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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
Group¹s spending nears $1.2 million to challenge McConnell on his ³clout²
 
            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 ³clout² to
help donors and special interests, not his constituents.
 
            The group¹s ad, available online at
http://www.bigmoneymitch.com, will now air in virtually every media market
in the Commonwealth.
 
            ³Mitch 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,² said David Donnelly, Campaign Money Watch¹s director.
³Now he¹s telling Kentuckians that he has clout and power. It¹s fair to ask,
as our ad does, who does he use the clout for?²
 
            Last week, Campaign Money Watch announced a $385,000 purchase of
airtime in three markets  Lexington, Louisville and northern Kentucky. This
week¹s additional buy brings the group¹s spending to $1,185,000 across
broadcast and cable in seven media markets.
 
            ³McConnell wanted a debate on his own clout and now he¹s got
one,² Donnelly said. ³I 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.²
 
            Republican Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell¹s 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 Reed¹s primary race for lieutenant
governor in Georgia. Campaign Money Watch is a project of Public Campaign
Action Fund.
 
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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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