Democratic group to launch ads targeting six GOP senators over shutdown

[Eugene]

Source: Washington Post

Democratic group to launch ads targeting six GOP senators over shutdown

By Sean Sullivan January 17 at 3:48 PM

A Democratic group plans to launch a television advertising campaign criticizing six Republican senators for the partial government shutdown, escalating the political battle as the standoff reached its 27th day.

Majority Forward, a Democratic nonprofit group aligned with Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.), has produced 30-second ads taking Republican senators facing potentially competitive reelection campaigns to task over the lapse in government services.

The ads target Sens. Martha McSally (Ariz.), Cory Gardner (Colo.), David Perdue (Ga.), Joni Ernst (Iowa), Susan Collins (Maine) and Thom Tillis (N.C.), the organization told The Washington Post.

As ominous music plays, a narrator points out that this is “the longest government shutdown in history,” and warns of the impact on food safety inspections and air travel security.

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[mucifer]

1. why not mitch?????

[Jose Garcia]

7. Kentucky is a very red state when it comes to Senare elections

[allgood33]

16. But they too have furloughed workers. Mitch should be at the top of the list.

[msongs]

2. meanwhile, democrats' group launches campaigns to unseat...fellow democrats nt

[rurallib]

4. what have I missed now?

[The Truth Is Here]

6. JD wants to unseat Cuellar with a progressive.

What's wrong with that?

[rurallib]

8. I do not know who JD is. I had heard a blurb about challenging Cuellar

hoping that whoever is behind it think long and hard before doing anything.

[The Truth Is Here]

9. Justice Democrats

[rurallib]

10. oh joy - are we going to go cut our own throats again?

Good lord, people - the enemy are those guys on the other side of the aisle.

[The Truth Is Here]

12. Yes they know, but they also know that some of the D's aren't really true D's.

One can make an argument for removing Cuellar since he votes with Trump at least 69% of the time.

He's way out of touch.

[Blue_true]

13. Cuellar failed to back a democrat over a republican in a US House race in Texas.

He is a longtime bluedog. I see people routinely pan Gore about his 2000 VP pick, well Cuellar is about the same as the VP pick. I am no Justice Democrat by a longshit, but I too want him primaried, preferably by a left-center democrat who can then have a chance of holding the seat.

[grumpyduck]

3. This is all fine well and good, but

unless the ads are being run as public-service announcements, I think the money would be better spent helping unpaid government employees.

[Blue_true]

14. Or on voter registration drives in the states those Senators stab in the back,

as opposed to represent.

[The Truth Is Here]

5. Waste of dollars, IMHO.

They should be focusing on one fucknut: Mitchell "FucknuTurtle" McConnell.

He's the one blocking the legislation needed to reopen the government.

[W_HAMILTON]

15. They are the ones up for reelection in 2020.

Think of it as an early campaign ad.

[The Truth Is Here]

17. Gardner's history, no matter what.

Turtle is up in 2020. I want him out.

[Midnightwalk]

11. Good

We need to pick up these seats in 2020. I blame the gop senators as much as Mcconnell and trump.

Spending money against Mcconnell doesn’t help as much. He can’t be shamed and Kentucky is hard to win in 2020. He won by 15% in 2014.