(The Minnesota Star Tribune)
New Dem radio spot attacks Cravaack on Medicare
Dems attack vulnerable freshmen
April 20, 2011 at 9:18PM
Minnesota Republican Chip Cravaack, one of 87 GOP House freshmen, is again the target of Democrats in Washington who hope to grab the momentum on the great budget debate in Congress. The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) targeted Cravaack earlier this week, albeit in a relatively paltry $160 radio ad that probably got more mileage in the press than on the air. Now the House Majority PAC, a newly formed group to help Democrats win back the majority in the U.S. House, is launching a slightly larger radio buy in northern Minnesota, spending some $5,700 on a radio ad attacking Cravaack on proposed GOP Medicare cuts. Cravaack is one of 10 GOP House members on the receiving end of the ad "offensive," which faults him for voting on a budget plan authored by Wisconsin Republican Paul Ryan that Democrats say would gut Medicare. This comes a month after yet another Democratic-allied group, Americans United for Change, put a billboard up in Dulth going after Cravaack on Medicare.
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