NRCC pumps $102,000 for a week of attack ads into Minnesota's Fighting First

An email is circulating to Democrats in the First from Walz campaign manager Richard Carlbom. Following on the heels of today's Washington Post article, Republicans aim to take out future Democratic stars, Carlbom's pitch is to fight back on behalf of Southern Minnesota's star:

The NRCC (National Republican Campaign Committee) will launch $102,000 worth of negative attack ads in southern Minnesota this Friday. They are coming after Tim Walz because he is a rising star and gets the job done for working families (see Washington Post story today by Aaron Blake).

 Today we are launching an effort to raise $100,000 to counter this latest bailout for career politician Randy Demmer.

 National Republicans are not coming after Tim Walz because they believe he is vulnerable, they are coming after Tim because he is strong. While Tim has focused on solutions that will improve people's lives, the NRCC leaders have chosen to help Randy Demmer because they know he will be a reliable vote for Wall Street and health insurance companies.

 We can’t let them get away with this – we need your help now. Alert your friends to this attempt of the NRCC to steal a seat in Minnesota – we need to get the word out now.

The choice is clear in southern Minnesota: Tim Walz is an authentic leader fighting for Minnesota’s working families. Randy Demmer is a career politician who has done nothing but line his own pockets with government money. From personal business subsidies in the hundreds of thousands to his plan to cut taxes for millionaires like himself and billionaires that will add $700 billion to the debt, it is clear we can’t afford Randy Demmer.

The email concludes with the following action items:

. . .Now that Randy Demmer’s plan to partially privatize Social Security has been exposed, Republicans are pouring money into a last ditch effort to bail out his campaign.

 That’s right, this is just another John Boehner Bailout.

 We need help in the following ways:

 1.) Help us get more of Tim Walz on TV: contribute to his campaign today: CLICK HERE TO CONTRIBUTE  Or call our Finance Director Alex Knewtson to find out how you can help now: alex@timwalz.org or call 507-381-1002.

 2.) Help us speak to voters. We have phone banks all over southern Minnesota and probably one very near you – contact Steve today: steve@timwalz.org

Now is the time to respond. Now is the time to act. Now is the time to make sure voters know the choice is clear.

Richard

Reached via email for comment about the email, Carlbom reiterated the point, ""This is just John Boehner's latest bailout delivered by the NRCC."

I'm surprised that there is no television buy yet coming from the Demmer campaign itself. Walz has been on the airwaves for weeks, and has begun to pile up an impressive list of endorsements from groups like the NRA-LIA, the VFW's PAC, and moderate Republicans. Demmer has little ground game--and the NRCC's buy is pure air war from DC.

This could get interesting.

Photo: Tim Walz in Worthington, wearing his NRA-endorsed hat.

 

Comments

[Phoenix Woman]

I'm surprised the NRCC itself is getting involved. Usually this cycle they've been letting Bush flack Gretchen Hamel's "Public Notice" front group do their dirty work for them.(Hamel's folks are the ones running the "Bankrupting America" ads with the guy digging the debt-grave for America; if they were honest, the guy should have Bush's face, since he's the one who ran up the debt with his two wars and two tax cuts.)