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Coleman group airs ad boosting Dent, Gerlach
Months ahead of competitive general election contests, Congressmen Jim Gerlach (R-6) and Charlie Dent (R-15) are already getting some help.
American Action Network, a conservative policy group, recently began airing a TV ad that bills the two incumbents as lawmakers who “understand what businesses need.”
The size of the ad buy remains unclear; since the spot doesn’t directly advocate the election or defeat of a political candidate, the group was not required to immediately disclose its expenditure. But the ad was seen airing Monday night in the Philadelphia media market.
The American Action Network is controlled by former Senator Norm Coleman of Minnesota.
“Congressmen Gerlach and Dent have supported policies and principles that protect small businesses during these difficult economic times,” Coleman said in a statement. “Both men know the importance of a fiscally responsible Congress and the horrible impact Washington’s over-regulation and over-spending is having on our small business owners.”
Dent’s campaign manager said he was unaware of the ad when asked about it by a reporter. The ad bills the two lawmakers as ones who “know how hard we work to make a dollar.”
“They keep a sharp eye on Washington spending,” a local businessman says in the ad, “and keep my taxes down.”
Gerlach faces Reading doctor Manan Trivedi in November. Dent faces Bethlehem Mayor John Callahan.
See the ad below.
May 25, 2010 at 4:01 pm
Tags: Charlie Dent, Jim Gerlach, John Callahan, Manan Trivedi, PA-15, PA-6
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Wood for SCOTUS
May 25th, 2010
The ad doesn’t directly advocate for the election or defeat of a candidate. Give me a break.
How broken are our campaign finance rules? This is a right-wing front group, and to say this ad isn’t advocating the re-election of the Congressmen is ridiculous.
Bruce Bailey
May 25th, 2010
It’s not just “a conservative policy group.” Not by a longshot.
The American Action Network is part of a multi-prong attack plan hatched by — surprise! — Repub propaganda czar Karl Rove.
According to a May 6 article that appeared on Politico (http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0510/36841.html), Rove, along with former Repub party chair Ed Gillespie and others, have launched five overlapping organizations including this one in hopes of recapturing Congress and the White House.
And the financial backers for this effort (http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/02/american_action_network_who_is_putting_up_the_mone.php) are interesting, too. The three Repub sugar daddies who are paying the freight for these ads are:
– Billionaire Kenneth Langone, whose money funded Home Depot, is former director of the New York Stock Exchange, and a financial backer of Ross Perot, Rudy Guiliani, and John McCain.
– Robert Steel, who served a “30-year illustrious career at Goldman Sachs”, was a crony to Bush Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson.
– Fred Malek, who served on the board of Fannie Mae, has moved “in the very highest circles of business and Republican politics” and made one of his earliest Republican marks “responding to Nixon’s request for a count of Jews employed in the Bureau of Labor Statistics.”
Stellar company that Gerlach and Dent are keeping here, don’t you think?
please
May 25th, 2010
the liberal groups like moveon.org and countless other soros-funded groups have been doing this for years. wow one group helps a republican and all of a sudden some crime has been committed. get a life.
Bruce Bailey
May 25th, 2010
Who said it was a crime? I think it’s pretty honest and refreshing that Gerlach and Dent are so up-front about getting support from Karl Rove and Wall Street tycoons.
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Gerlach is a Gold Digger
May 27th, 2010
Gerlach marrys for Money He dumped his wife so he could go after the Kraph Girl who has a Ton of Money Gerlach is a Metrosexual maybe even GAY