Rep. Michele Bachmann
(R-Minn.) has filed paperwork to create a Tea Party caucus in the House of
Representatives.
Bachmann sent a formal
request Thursday to the House Administration Committee to form the caucus that
Bachmann hopes would convene at the start of the next Congress in January 2011,
with her as chair.
The congresswoman said the
caucus would be “an informal group of members dedicated to promote Americans’
call for fiscal responsibility, adherence to the Constitution and limited
government.”
Bachmann’s call for a House Tea Party caucus comes after
Kentucky Senate candidate Rand Paul (R) suggested earlier this week that he
would like to form a Tea Party caucus in U.S. Senate.
Weld County District Attorney
Ken Buck (R) released his first TV ad of the Colorado Senate primary campaign.
The 30-second ad is airing statewide on broadcast TV beginning Friday and will
air on cable television starting on Monday, according to a Buck spokesman. The
ad was produced by Walt Klein’s Colorado Media Group.
Buck’s ad is entirely
positive, focusing on his desire to cut spending. Lt. Gov. Jane Norton, in
contrast, hammered her rival for the GOP Senate nod in her latest ad. She also
cited the recent spots by Americans for Job Security, a conservative
group that has been promoting Buck and criticizing her. “You think Ken would be
man enough to do it himself,” she says in the ad.
Pennsylvania Republican Tom
Corbett’s controversial remarks about the unemployed being unwilling to work
until government benefits expire appear not to have resonated among likely
voters.
Corbett still holds a
double-digit lead over Democrat Dan Onorato in the state’s gubernatorial race.
Corbett has a 49 to 39
percent lead over Onorato among 750 likely votes in a Rasmussen Reports pollreleased
Friday. The survey, which mirrors results from June,
was conducted July 14 — five days after Corbett said “the jobs are there” and
people just don’t want to work.
“People don’t want to come
back to work while they still have come unemployment,” he told Pennsylvania
Public Radio on July 9. “That’s becoming a problem.”
“The jobs are there, but if
we keep extending unemployment people are just going to sit there,” he said.
The state had a 9.2 percent
unemployment rate last month.
Onorato has already used the
comments in aWeb ad.
On Friday he was at an event in Lancaster where he again hit Corbett for his
comments.
“A Harrisburg insider like Tom Corbett who doesn’t even
recognize the problems families are facing will never be able to offer the
solutions that Pennsylvania needs,” Onorato said in a prepared statement.
Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu is back on TV pitching for Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.).
The sheriff is one of several law enforcement officers featured in a new 30-second spot released by the McCain camp Friday. Babeu appeared in McCain's earlier, and much-maligned, "Danged Fence" ad.
This one talks up McCain's efforts to secure the border and how he is "stand[ing] up" to President Obama, who has made protecting the border "incredibly difficult."
The ad's release comes as McCain prepares to meet primary challengers J.D. Hayworth and Jim Deakin in a debate Friday night in Phoenix. A recent poll shows McCain pulling ahead of his rivals.
A new Republican political
group launched a television ad Friday ripping Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid
(D-Nev.) for his state’s struggling economy.
American Crossroads, an 527
group backed by former Bush adviser Karl Rove and ex-Republican National
Committee Chairman Ed Gillespie, bought $120,000 of state airtime starting
Friday. The ad is one of the first GOP responses to Reid’s aggressive
advertising strategy against his opponent Sharron Angle (R).
“While Nevada’s economy was
falling apart, Harry Reid was using his position to promote the interests of
his Washington friends, not Nevada’s,” said Steven Law, president and CEO of
American Crossroads. “The one thing a Senate majority leader should be able to
control is what’s in the bill — but Reid was too busy taking orders from the
White House to put his own state first.”
A poll released Friday showed
that Reid had taken a
statistically significant leadover Angle for the first time in a
major poll since she won her primary contest last month. Reid’s surge followed
a string of television ads released by his campaign hitting Angle for being too
extreme.
The Senate majority leader
has spent $3 million in television ads since the beginning of April.
By law, American Crossroads’
527, tax-exempt status bars them from making direct expenditures that advocate
for the election or defeat of a specific candidate. The language of the ad does
not specifically call on voters to choose Angle over Reid.
But like other 527s, the group is working to get Republicans
elected in the fall midterm elections. After falling behind on their $50
million fundraising goal for the midterms earlier this year, the group raised
$8 million in June.
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