Labor’s mailers target Toomey, House hopefuls

The next round of organized labor’s big direct-mail campaign is zeroing in on Republican Senate candidate Pat Toomey and five GOP House candidates.

The AFL-CIO mailers, obtained by pa2010.com ahead of their formal release Monday morning, are part of a massive effort by the umbrella labor group to help Democratic candidates who risk drowning in a deluge of third-party spending by conservative groups. Most of the labor organization’s first targets in Pennsylvania have been previously reported, but the content of the mail pieces has not.

The direct-mailers, part of a campaign that includes more than 2 million mail pieces that will hit homes across the country, hew to the familiar Democratic attack lines this cycle. The mailer targeting Toomey says he “profited while working families struggled.” The pieces targeting 8th District Republican Mike Fitzpatrick and 10th District Republican Tom Marino depict an elderly union couple saying: “We worked hard. We did everything we were supposed to do. Now Mike Fitzpatrick wants to change the rules.”

Other mailers targeting Mike Kelly in the 3rd District, Pat Toomey in the 7th District and Tim Burns in the 12th District accuse the GOP nominees of pledging to protect tax breaks for companies that ship jobs overseas. The attack refers to the Americans for Tax Reform pledge that a plethora of candidates have signed. It doesn’t actually pledge those candidates to protect such tax breaks as a rule, but the conservative group has said that some measures which would end the tax breaks would also violate the pledge.

Click here to see the mailer targeting Toomey.

Click here to see the mailer targeting Kelly.

Click here to see the mailer targeting Meehan.

Click here to see the mailer targeting Fitzpatrick.

Click here to see the mailer targeting Carney.

Click here to see the mailer targeting Burns.