Just heard an The Alliance for a New America Edwards commercial WONDERFUL!

[Omaha Steve]

I couldn't find a file of the ad on the net anywhere. Found this. Since it lists the love baby story, I don't know what to think of this site.

http://jre-whatsnottolike.com/category/pacs/alliance-for-a-new-america-527/

December 16, 2007
Edwards 2004 campaign manager advising pro-Edwards Labor 527
Filed under: 2008 Primary, Alliance for a New America 527, Labor, PACs — is @ 11:48 pm

A handful of local Service Employees International Union affiliates have banded together to form a third-party advocacy group championing many of the same issues emphasized by former senator John Edwards in his presidential campaign.

The Alliance for a New America’s stated goal, according to its Web site, it to “ask the candidates how they will make the middle class and working Americans their top priority in Washington, while ensuring that special interests and corporate America lose their stranglehold on our government.”

To that end, the group, which is incorporated under Section 527 of the Internal Revenue Code, will begin running radio ads in Iowa this week featuring a nurse named Beth Junk. “For years, the insurance companies, drug companies and their Washington lobbyists have blocked reform,” Junk says in an obvious echo of Edwards’s rhetoric on the stump. “It’s time someone had a plan to take them on.” The ad’s narrator goes on to provide details of Edwards’s plan.

The ads are being financed by six local branches of SEIU — two in California, two in Minnesota and one each in Oregon and Ohio. The Chicago branch of United Here is also involved in the effort. Nick Baldick, who managed Edwards’s presidential campaign in 2004 but is not involved in his campaign this time around, is serving as an adviser to the group.

To date, the Alliance for a New America has raised nearly $850,000 and spent $590,000 — all of it on the radio ads. In addition to the radio campaign, the organization is planning a direct-mail program in Iowa and has not ruled out the possibility of television ads as well.

Another pro-Edwards 527 — Working for Working Families — launched TV ads in Iowa late last week touting Edwards’s call to eliminate tax breaks for companies who move jobs offshore. That group is affiliated with the United Brotherhood of Carpenters, according to forms filed Friday with the IRS.

[jsamuel]

1. That is an anti-Edwards site.

I wouldn't post that link. :(

[Omaha Steve]

2. I figured that too

Since the Alliance site is pretty bare, the link at least has the story. His labor connection sure doesn't bug me. I emailed the station to see about getting a copy of the ad to post.