Crossroads GPS, a conservative-aligned outside group backed by Karl Rove, is on the air in Nebraska with an ad attacking former Sen. Bob Kerrey (D-Neb.) for supporting the bank bailout.
Crossroads will spend $260,000 to air the ad in five Nebraska markets plus Denver, whose media market bleeds into southwestern Nebraska.
The ad campaign comes three days after the Republican primary in Nebraska, and as both parties are scrambling to define state Sen. Deb Fischer (R), a rural rancher who emerged from relative obscurity to pull off an upset victory in the primary on Tuesday.
Kerrey, who was recruited by Democrats to help hold retiring Sen. Ben Nelson’s (D-Neb.) seat, ran unopposed in his primary.
The ad accuses Kerrey, who served on the board of an insurance company that tried to access bailout funds, of trying to exploit the bailout for financial gain.
“For Bailout Bob Kerrey, it’s Wall Street ways, not Nebraska values,” says the narrator in the ad. “Tell him: Support balanced budgets, not bailouts.”
