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From NBC's Mark Murray Ken Calvert (CA), Charlie Dent (PA), and Lee Terry (NE) -- for voting against the recent war supplemental bill.
The ads will begin July 1 and will run for a week.
Here's a sample of one of the ads: "When
George Bush asked, Congressman Terry voted to fully fund our troops in Iraq and Afghanistan," a narrator says. "And last year he said, quote, 'We must give our military every resource it needs.'"
It continues, "Seems like Congressman Terry is playing politics now. Last month Congressman Terry voted AGAINST funding for those same troops... It’s a shame. Call Lee Terry. Ask him why he voted against our troops. Ask him: What changed?"
Republicans who voted against the legislation say they supported the troops, but opposed it because it contained unnecessary spending, like money for the International Monetary Fund.
From NBC's Mark Murray and Domenico Montanaro President Obama's televised town hall tomorrow on health care, the Republican National Committee is airing a new 60-second TV ad that criticizes Obama's plans to overhaul the system.
Per the RNC, the ad will air on "select national cable outlets." An RNC spokeswoman wouldn't disclose the size of the ad buy, but said it was neither small nor large.
Script: "Today a national TV network turns its airwaves over to President Obama's pitch for government-run health care."
From NBC's Mark Murray Sotomayor TV ad. Well, here comes an anti-Sotomayor ad, courtesy of the conservative Judicial Confirmation Network.
Per a source familiar with this ad, it is currently not airing on TV -- instead, it's running on Web sites and has been emailed to conservative activists across the nation. The source adds that the Judicial Confirmation Network is assessing whether to go with a national buy.
From NBC's Pete Williams
Saying it wants to be prepared when
President Obama announces a nominee, a conservative group has prepared short
internet-only ads , attacking three of the women most often mentioned as potential Supreme Court choices.
The Judicial Confirmation Network, which pushed strongly for the nominations of
John Roberts and
Samuel Alito during the
Bush administration, says
Elena Kagan ,
Sonia Sotomayor , and
Diane Wood are not moderates or centrists. "They are hard-left activists who would decide cases based on their feelings and their personal political agendas," said Wendy Long, a former law clerk to Justice
Clarence Thomas .
The video on Elena Kagan criticizes her decision, as dean of Harvard's law school, to re-impose a ban on allowing military recruiters access to law school facilities. Kagan said Harvard's anti-discrimination policy required the action, because the military does not permit gay people to serve. The ad says she "kicked the military off campus, incredibly during a time of war."
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From NBC's Mark Murray Creigh Deeds -- perhaps the sleeper in this race, at least to the national media -- is up with his first TV ads.
The one below is on education.
If Deeds bests Terry McAuliffe and Brian Moran in the primary, that would set up a general election against Republican Bob McDonnell , who beat Deeds by just a few hundred votes in Virginia's attorney general election in 2005.
From NBC's Mark Murray Tim Pawlenty to certify Al Franken (D) if he remains ahead of Norm Coleman (R) after the Minnesota Supreme Court considers the case.
"Most Minnesotans -- including Republicans -- believe that once the Minnesota Supreme Court rules, it will be time for Gov. Pawlenty to do his legal duty and certify Al Franken as our senator," the ad goes. "But the national Republican donors don’t want Minnesota to have its rightful representation in the Senate... Call Gov. Pawlenty... Ask him to put Minnesota’s interest ahead of political ambition."
From NBC's Mark Murray President Obama's first 100 days in office. The ad recounts Obama signing his economic stimulus into law, as well as the Lily Ledbetter Act and S-CHIP.
The DNC says the ad will run on national cable and in DC (read: it's a relatively small buy).
It ends with Obama saying, “Now is the time to act boldly and wisely -- to not only revive this economy but to build a new foundation for lasting prosperity. Now is the time to jump-start job creation, restart lending, and invest in areas like energy, health care, and education that will grow our economy, even as we make hard choices to bring our deficit down.”
From NBC's Mark Murray President Obama was touting his economic stimulus, the National Republican Congressional Committee announced a new ad campaign targeting congressional Democrats who voted for the stimulus and other new spending.
Tellingly, this ad campaign -- in the form of television ads, radio ads, and robo calls -- links these Democrats with Speaker Nancy Pelosi , not President Obama.
Here's an example: A TV ad hitting Ohio Rep. Zack Space (D).
“We will continue to hold these Democrats accountable for rubber-stamping Nancy Pelosi’s agenda that will burden middle-class families and inflict further damage on an already fragile economy for years to come,” NRCC communications director Ken Spain said in a statement.
Spain tells First Read the ad campaign is a "significant" buy.
In addition to Space, the NRCC is targeting 42 House Democrats, including Reps. Jason Altmire (PA-4), Michael Arcuri (NY-24), Chris Carney (PA-10), Stephanie Herseth Sandlin (SD), Larry Kissell (NC-8), and Ron Klein (FL-22).
From NBC's Mark Murray GOP's weekly radio address , Republican New Hampshire Sen. -- and one-time Obama Commerce secretary-designee -- Judd Gregg blasted President Obama's $3.6 trillion budget proposal.
He continues, "We believe you create prosperity by having an affordable government that pursues its responsibilities without excessive costs, taxes or debt. That it is the individual American who creates prosperity and good jobs, not the government. We believe that you create energy independence not by sticking Americans with a brand new national sales tax on everyone’s electric bill, but by expanding the production of American energy."
Meanwhile, in a new TV ad , the liberal group Americans United for Change ridicules House Republicans, who this week announced a budget alternative that had no hard numbers in it; House Republicans say that the hard numbers will come out next week.
"For weeks the Republicans just said NO to the president’s plan and refused to propose one of their own," the ad goes. "They finally presented their alternative. How many numbers were in their alternative 'budget'? That’s right – none. A budget with no numbers? Tell the Republicans that Americans won’t take NO for an answer. Tell them we want our President -- and America -- to succeed."
From NBC's Mark Murray Obama's Organizing for America is the latest group to air a TV ad touting the president's budget. The ad is running on national and DC cable (read: a relatively small buy).
