A new TV ad from the Alliance for a Better Minnesota is critical of Republican candidate for governor Jeff Johnson over the minimum wage issue.

The Alliance, a third party group that supports DFL candidates, has aired a series of TV ads against Johnson. The group said the new ad would begin airing statewide on Tuesday.

The ad features a Minnesota woman, Jessica English, who talks about raising her kids for a time on minimum wage. "It was nearly impossible to get by," said English, raising concerns that Johnson would "reduce the minumum wage."

"Johnson opposes raising the minimum wage, but he supports tax breaks for big corporations," English says in the ad. The Alliance cited several votes that Johnson took as a state legislator in 2005 to back up those claims.

English, a former activist for Occupy Homes MN movement, is now an economic organizer for the progressive group TakeAction MN.

Gov. Mark Dayton signed a bill earlier this year raising Minnesota's minimum wage by $1.85, to $8 an hour for large employers. It will keep going up to $9.50 an hour in 2016, and start indexing to inflation in 2018.

Johnson has been critical of the minimum wage bill, and said he does not support automatic increases in the minimum wage.

"He agrees with the woman in the ad -- that it's impossible to raise a family on a minimum wage salary," spokesman Jeff Bakken said. Bakken said Johnson would not cut the current minimum wage, and noted recent economic measures showing Minnesota last in private sector job creation in the Midwest.

"We need more good-paying jobs in our state, and the only way to get them is to get rid of Mark Dayton," Bakken said.

It's the third Alliance ad targeting Johnson's record. The full ad can be viewed here.