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DCCC Launching Radio Ad Offensive

By Erin McPike

The DCCC is fighting a tough defensive battle in the midterms to project its majority, but it still has a little money left over for some offense. And chair Chris Van Hollen sees financial regulatory reform as a political winner.

The DCCC today is launching 60-second radio ads in the districts of 5 GOPers who voted for TARP last year but against financial regulatory reform on Friday.

Targeted GOPers include Reps. Dan Lungren (R-CA), Mary Bono Mack (R-CA), Lee Terry (R-NE), Charlie Dent (R-PA) and Joe Wilson (R-SC).

A DCCC spokesman would not disclose the size of the ad buy. But Dems are accusing GOPers of hypocrisy, according to a script provided to Hotline OnCall:

"October 2008, the last months of the Bush presidency. The big banks and financial institutions almost collapsed, putting our entire economy at risk. Remember? We all know we should never let this happen again. That's why what our Congressman Lee Terry did last week is so disturbing," the ad's narrator says. 

"Congressman Terry voted to let Wall Street continue the same risky practices that crippled retirement accounts and left taxpayers on the hook for $700 billion dollars," the ads continue. "And he voted to allow the big banks to pay high rolling executives unchecked compensation and bonuses. Maybe the $234,000 dollars that financial special interests have given to Congressman Terry mattered more to him than protecting taxpayers and consumers. Doesn't that just make you mad? Call Lee Terry, tell him to stop standing up for the big banks and to start standing up for us."

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Quote : A DCCC spokesman would not disclose the size of the ad buy. But Dems are accusing GOPers of hypocrisy, according to a script provided to Hotline OnCall ...

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