Club For Growth Jumps Into Five Senate Races
The Club for Growth is the latest big conservative group to get up on the airwaves during the general election, announcing yesterday the release of five attack
Jul 31, 202042.8K Shares1.7M Views
The Club for Growth is the latest big conservative group to get up on the airwaves during the general election, announcing yesterdaythe release of five attack ads targeting “the liberal, out-of-touch records of U.S. Rep. Joe Sestak, Gov. Charlie Crist, and U.S. Sens. Russ Feingold, Michael Bennet, and Harry Reid”:
“„“Pat Toomey, Marco Rubio, Ron Johnson, Ken Buck, and Sharron Angle belong in the Senate, and Club for Growth Action is going to do everything it can to get them there,” said Club President Chris Chocola. “This five-state, $1.5 million buy adds to the first wave in a campaign that we expect to be the most successful economic freedom has had in decades.”
It’s the Club’s first purchase in all these states, with the exception of Pennsylvania, where the group has already spent $500,000 attacking Rep. Joe Sestak (D-Pa.) and bolstering their former president, former Rep. Pat Toomey (R-Pa.). Sestak’s camp shot back yesterday, drawing Pennsylvania voters’ attention to a new website, www.therealtoomeyforsenate.com, which plays upon Toomey’s history as a former Wall Street trader and a Club for Growth president.
Styled as a slick, corporate website — the bottom reads “The Real Pat Toomey | New York | Hong Kong | Washington, D.C.” — it’s a one stop shop for damming quotes about Toomey, including one from Derivatives Strategy magazine, which argued that, with Toomey in Congress, “now the derivatives industry can claim representation by one of its own.”
The Club for Growth, meanwhile, has two main entities: a traditional PAC, which has reportedraising a little over $2 million through the end of July, and a new, independent expenditure group, which has raised over $600,000 fromjust four contributorsthrough the same time period. A full half million of it came from Jackson Stephens Jr., whose father helped buildArkansas-based Stephens, Inc., into one of the largest investment banks outside Wall Street. Stephens Jr., who serves on the Club for Growth’s board of directors, is listed as an executive at EOE, Inc., or ExOxEmis,** **a privately-held biological company based in Little Rock.
Hajra Shannon
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