from MSP Star-Trib:
Clark will air TV ad hitting Bachmann over BPThe spot will air Sunday night on WCCO, Channel 4
By ERIC ROPER, Star Tribune
Last update: June 18, 2010 - 9:43 PM
The oil saturating the Gulf spilled into Minnesota's political scene Friday as Michele Bachmann's Democratic challenger released a new ad targeting the congresswoman's comments on the disaster.
Bachmann is one of several members of Congress under fire for criticizing the Obama administration's request that oil giant BP create a $20 billion escrow fund to pay claims from the massive oil spill.
Bachmann called the proposed escrow account "more of a redistribution-of-wealth-fund," and warned BP not to become "chumps" at the hands of the Obama administration.
After President Obama's speech this week, Bachmann said that the president "continues to focus on blaming and on extorting money out of a company rather than letting the courts deal with making victims whole, which they should, and actually stemming the leak in the Gulf." ...........(more)
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