Third-party groups ready multiple ads attacking health-care law
Conservative groups are gearing up to spend millions of dollars over the next three months on ads attacking President Obamas health-care law and Democrats who support it, but in many cases voters will have no way of knowing who paid for the barrage.
The ads amount to the next wave of opposition to Obamas health-care plan, which was upheld by the Supreme Court last month as constitutional under the federal governments taxing authority. Some of the groups most active on the issue have received funding from health-care firms opposed to parts of the legislation.
The American Action Network (AAN), for example, is targeting House Democrats who voted for Obamacare with $1.2 million in digital ads, mailings and other efforts. As a tax-exempt social welfare organization, the group is not required to identify its funders to the public.
How far will they go to protect Obamas agenda? a narrator asks in one digital ad, which equates a trio of New York Democrats with the Three Stooges comedy troupe. Tell congressmen Bill Owens, Tim Bishop and Louise Slaughter to repeal the health care tax.
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