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Iowa group spends big to oppose Rand Paul
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| Contributor | particleman |
| Last Edited | particleman May 08, 2010 10:50am |
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| Author | Jack Brammer |
| News Date | Saturday, May 8, 2010 04:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | FRANKFORT — An out-of-state advocacy group is spending big bucks on television ads in Kentucky to criticize Republican U.S. Senate candidate Rand Paul for threatening "Kentucky values." The 30-second spot says Paul is "opposed to helping farmers" and calls coal "the least favorable form of energy."
American Future Fund, based in Des Moines, Iowa, launched the ad Friday, spending $104,296 to air the the spot 148 times in the Lexington TV market before the May 18 election, according to the public ad file at WKYT-TV. That spending dwarfs the amount being spent for Lexington TV ads by either Paul or his chief opponent, Secretary of State Trey Grayson. Paul is spending about $26,000 to air ads on WKYT from May 3 to May 18, compared with $51,105 being spent by American Future Fund to air ads on the channel from May 7 to May 17. Grayson is spending $17,880 with WKYT for ads that air from May 3 to May 10.
"If this attack group really cared about Kentucky issues, they would be talking to Rand Paul instead of running misleading $100,000 ad campaigns against him," said David Adams, Paul's campaign manager. "Fortunately, Kentuckians aren't buying what these people from Iowa are selling." Adams said it was interesting that Grayson campaign pollster Jan van Lohuizen is affiliated with the American Future Fund. Van Lohuizen is listed on the organization's Web site as a founder of the group.
Grayson's campaign manager, Nate Hodson, said the campaign had no idea that American Future Fund intended to play a role in the race. |
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