Friends of Democracy, the new super-PAC from Jonathan Soros targeting congressmen who oppose campaign finance reform, is up with $700,000 worth of ads attacking Reps. Dan Lungren (R-Calif.), Chip Cravaack (R-Minn.), Sean Duffy (R-Wis.) and Charlie Bass (R-N.H.) for the donations they've received from special-interest groups.
The ads feature two lobbyists sitting in the front row of an empty baseball park, who tell a family they can't sit near them because "those seats are paid for" multiple times until the family is sitting on the roof outside of the park.
"Do you feel frozen out like this when it comes to Congres? No wonder — corporate lobbyists have your congressman's full attention," one version of the ad says. "Your congressman, Dan Lungren, took over $1 million from financial interests and voted against holding them accountable. If we don't vote against Dan Lungren, middle-class families will never get in the game."
The group plans to spend more than $5 million this election attacking these and other congressmen for opposing legislation to require all outside advocacy groups to disclose their donors.
