Club for Growth Action has launched a television ad against Democratic Senate candidate Joe Sestak with what the group calls a "very substantial" purchase of air time. The independent expenditure will boost Republican Pat Toomey, who was president of the Club for Growth after leaving Congress in 2005 until he launched his Senate campaign early in 2009.
The ad reprises familiar themes to argue that Sestak is too liberal for Pennsylvania, including his statement that the $787 billion stimulus was not big enough, the bailouts, the cap-and-trade "energy tax," etc. But it adds Sestak's vote for the $300 billion "mortgage bailout" - loans to underwater homeowners and propping up Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae - that passed in July 2008 and was signed into law by President Bush.
The Club has paid $335,285 to run the ad on broadcast and cable through Sept. 9 in the Harrisburg, Pittsburgh and Wilkes-Barre media markets, according to trackers of advertising buys.
"It's not surprising that Congressman Toomey's Wall Street special interest friends are coming in from out-of-state to mislead Pennsylvanians about Joe's record," said Sestak spokeswoman April Mellody. "Former derivatives trader Toomey led the biggest spending spree in history with all the benefits going to Wall Street at the expense of the middle class."
club for growth has never backed a winning candidate and its record will continue. Since toomey ran the club, why wouldn't it come up with a BS commercial against Sestak. This club for crowth had never grown anything except Wall Street's pockets. And why don't repubs ever admit that the vast majority of economists, conservatives, too, say the stimulus should have been larger. You do spend your way out of a recession. The more money in the marketplace, the better.— mike l
Comment removed.- This is nothing more than typical hatchet job by a dishonest and ruthless organization. Toomey and the CFG deserve each other.— matty177
- Rauol Duke you're exactly right. These Club for Growth jerks only work to grow their own fortunes. Sestak isn't perfect, but at least you get the feeling he's working for Pennsylvania.— Robhenniker
- Sestak is Pelosi without the pants suit. 4 years of these clowns is enough. Joe do us favor and go take that job Rahm offered you and leave the people who actually work for a living alone.— beeron
Shame on you Club for Growth!! How dare you want Growth!! How dare you want business friendly policies and stability in tax laws so that private business can start hiring again!! Every simple minded idiot like me knows that the only way to economic recovery is more public sector Union jobs. Organizations like the club for growth should be outlawed!— rudytbone
Pat Toomey targets Social Security for elimination and replace it with Wall Street hedge fund investment. He outlines this in his book that he wrote to show how great private Wall St investment is as compared to the Federal Government. Apparently, he thinks if he pretends that our private banking system has not totally collapsed, now for the 3rd time in the last 75 years, that no one else with notice. All you need to do is close your eyes, click your heels 3 times, and say "There's no one but Adam Smith, there's no one but Adam Smith, there's no one but Adam Smith to tell us what to do!" And all will be well. Of course it will be well for him and his Wall St looting investment backers. You didn't think the unemployed were giving him money to run for the Senate did you?- Comment removed.
- Mike I, the CFG has backed Sens Jim DeMint and Tom Coburn, both in the past and again this year. They both won, so there goes your theory. Also, the club is backing a number of Senate candidates that are currently leading in their races, like Rubio in FL, Toomey, Rand Paul in KY, and Mike Lee in Utah. Also, your contention that a majority of economists say the stimulus should have been larger is false. Economists are pretty well mixed on that. For each one that thinks it should have been bigger, there is another who thinks it shouldn't have happened at all. And if the stimulus was so great, why is the economy just getting worse? About the only thing you got right is that more money in the marketplace would be better. The question is, who should be supplying that money to the marketplace. Toomey will win this race. Sestak is too easily tied to failed policies.— buttermilk67
- Well, if you didn't have a reason to vote against Toomey, associating him with DeMint and Paul is a good way to make anyone with sense vote against him. Of course, expecting people to have sense in the U.S. is like expecting the U.S. to lead the world in education, happiness, or any other way you measure a country.— HandNik
- Current nutjobs on the Club for Growth's love list include Sharon Angle of Nevada,Rand Paul of Kentucky and Joe Miller of Alaska. Gloomy Doomy Toomey,you're in good company. Bush without the personality,indeed!— jimac51
