Club For Growth To Dump $250K Into Anti-Climate Law Push; Tester, Baucus, Byrd Among Targets - WP

[hatrack]

WASHINGTON -- A conservative, free-market advocacy group will begin airing ads this week pressing Senate Republicans and Democrats to vote against a bill that aims to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

The Club for Growth wants to scuttle a bill by Sens. Joe Lieberman, an independent from Connecticut, and John Warner, R-Va., that the Senate is scheduled to begin debating next month. Despite the ad campaign, the bill seems to lack the votes needed to overcome a filibuster.

With $250,000 in radio and television spots, the Club for Growth is targeting Republican Sens. Elizabeth Dole of North Carolina and Lamar Alexander of Tennessee, and Democratic Sens. Robert Byrd and Jay Rockefeller of West Virginia and Max Baucus and Jon Tester of Montana. Dole, a co-sponsor of the bill, as well as Alexander, Baucus and Rockefeller face re-election this year.

"Congress is at it again," a television ad airing in Tennessee says. "This time they're pushing massive new taxes and regulation in the name of global warming. But let's ask ourselves, are the unproven benefits of legislation worth the major job losses, new taxes and increased energy costs that could result? "Call Senator Lamar Alexander and tell him to vote no on the Lieberman-Warner climate bill. Tennesseans just can't afford another huge, costly government program." All but the Montana ads will air Tuesday. Ads aimed at Tester and Baucus will air next week.

EDIT

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/27/AR2008052700058.html

[papau]

1. LOL - What has happened to make those folks so cheap? - $250 K doesn't cover a Wednesday breakfast !

[TheFarseer]

2. wouldn't it be cheaper to just pay their taxes?

these bastards shell out millions every 2 years to get the biggest crackpots in the country into Congress. I'm sick of these Wall Street assholes deciding who represents my district.

[Shoelace]

3. oh my, how to rid the world of these dinosaurs? NY Times article about this bill

who have helped set the US back into the Dark Ages. I can well imagine that their ads would work in Tennessee but elsewhere?:shrug:

More info on the Club for Growth here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Club_for_Growth

Also, an interesting editorial about the bill before the Senate next week by NY Times just today:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/28/opinion/28wed1.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin