Club for Growth launches anti-Kerry ads [View All]

[Feanorcurufinwe]

The Club for Growth, one of the nation's leading free-market political advocacy organizations, has launched a new television ad campaign that shows the voting similarities of four-term Republican Sen. Arlen Specter (Pa.) and liberal Democrat John Kerry (Mass.), the likely Democrat presidential nominee.

Showing still photos of Sen. Kerry, the narrator says: "He voted for eight (8) huge tax hikes. He supports greedy trial lawyers instead of doctors on legal reform. He's blocked school choice education programs. And he's rated one of the Senate's most wasteful spenders. John Kerry? No. Arlen Specter. Fact is, nearly 70 percent of the time, Specter and Kerry voted the same way. And that makes Arlen Specter 100 percent too liberal."

"The people of Pennsylvania need to see how liberal Arlen Specter truly is," said Club for Growth president Stephen Moore. "John Kerry is the model of modern-day liberalism and Specter appears to be his shadow. It is no surprise that National Review labeled Arlen Specter 'the worst Republican Senator.'"

The television ad will begin running Feb. 12 on select broadcast stations and on cable news channels statewide. The Club for Growth has budgeted over $150,000 for this phase of the ad campaign. The ad was produced by Warfield & Company.

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The Club for Growth was founded in 1999 to elect pro-economic growth fiscal conservatives. That organization forwards campaign contributions from its members to the most free-market oriented candidates in targeted congressional races. In the 2000 election cycle the Club for Growth spent $ 2.4 million to help elect 10 new Republicans to Congress. The Club for Growth has grown six-fold since the 2000 election cycle and the Club and its members raised or donated over $10 million to help elect seventeen new Members of Congress in the 2002 election cycle.

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