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From The Holland Sentinel - Posted 2/5/2012

Senate candidate, former congressman Pete Hoekstra pays $150,000 for Super Bowl campaign ads

Peter PiperPete Hoekstra’s Senate campaign is pretty tight-lipped about a Super Bowl commercial, but Democrats have plenty to say.

“We’re not getting into the content too much,” said Paul Ciaramitaro, a Hoekstra campaign spokesman.

However, he would say the ad aims to “satirically highlight Debbie Stabenow’s record on spending and job creation — obviously a record we think is abysmal — and the real world consequences of that record”

Michigan Democratic Party Chairman Mark Brewer called the ad an attempt to fix Hoekstra’s public image.

“The way to fix your image is not to run a TV ad, but to do the right thing and resign,” Brewer said in a reference to Hoekstra’s work as a senior advisor for Washington law and lobbying firm Dickstein Shapiro. “We’ve been calling on him to resign from that job for some time because we think it creates a conflict of interest.”

Hoekstra’s camp welcomes the added attention from the Democratic outcry.

Sitting Sen. Debbie Stabenow, whom Hoekstra would face in November if he wins the Republican primary, used the ad buy as a fundraising opportunity.

“He is betting that if he spends enough money on flashy Super Bowl ads, he can gloss over his record and buy the election,” a Stabenow campaign email states. It encourages supporters, “When Hoekstra’s ads come on TV, tell your friends that you helped Debbie fight back by making a donation of $25, $50, $100 or whatever you can afford now!”

The “strategic buy” ad will air during the game in some Michigan markets; in others, it will air immediately prior at a total cost of $75,000, Ciaramitaro said. The ad will continue to run for two weeks after the Super Bowl. Those spots will run the campaign another $75,000 — totaling $150,000 for the ad to air. Donations to the Hoekstra campaign netted some supporters an early peek.

“Pete has a record as a penny pincher and even with the campaign that’s been the case,” Ciaramitaro said.

The Hoekstra campaign used the same man as behind Gov. Rick Snyder’s 2010 “One tough nerd” Super Bowl campaign spot. They’re hoping for the same results.

 

Posted 1/30/2012

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DSCC Fundraising Drive -- 24 Hours to Go

Friend - The next 24 hours will determine our nation’s political path: We either re-elect President Obama. Or President Gingrich or President Romney destroy working families and hand everything to the top 1%.
 
I really need you to take a look at this spreadsheet. Our make-or-break FEC deadline is 24 hours from now, and we’re still $255,000 short. This is the first deadline since the GOP presidential contest turned from circus to serious. Whether or not we hit this goal will determine who wins: President Obama, or a radical Republican.

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Reach this goal, and we have a fighting chance to keep President Obama in office and prevent a total GOP takeover. Fall short, and President Gingrich or President Romney will be calling the shots before a Republican Congress a year from now.
 
Can you chip in $5 now?
 
We can’t get there without your help – 90% of our donations come from grassroots supporters. Thanks in advance.

Jason

Jason Rosenbaum
DSCC Director of Online Communications

Posted 1/29/2012

DSCC Banner from Sunday's e-mail

Karl Rove painted a target on my 2010 race.

Thanks to the Supreme Court’s Citizens United ruling, shady groups – including Rove’s – dumped millions in unregulated cash into Colorado.

With your help, we fought back. We won. But there are now 23 Senate races that are facing the exact Graphic to sign petitionsame threat. And we need to be ready for the onslaught that's coming.

Democrats are up against a critical FEC deadline. Raise $270,000 in the next 48 hours, and we'll be able to counter the Karl Rove cash machine. Fall short even a dollar, and that's a dollar of nasty attack ads we can't combat.

What you do right now will either help re-elect President Obama and Senate Democrats -- or swing the door wide open for Tea Party extremists.
 
I need your help right now. Can you give $5 or more to join the fight? The DSCC still has $270,000 left to raise to keep pace with Karl Rove!
 
Citizens United has turned our electoral system into a silent auction. My Democratic colleagues and I are taking Karl Rove head-on with an amendment to reverse the ruling, but we can't wait to fight back.
 
The math is tough: Republicans have half as many seats to defend. If they gain just 4 seats, they’re in charge.
 
If we can go toe-to-toe with them on the ground – like I did – we can keep President Obama in the White House and hold onto the Senate. But fall short, and we’re looking at total Republican rule. We won’t be able to counter Citizens United and the other huge challenges our nation faces.
 
I need your help right now. Can you give $5 or more to join the fight? The DSCC still has $270,000 left to raise to keep pace with Karl Rove!
 
Thanks to the DSCC and its half a million grassroots donors, I’m able to fight against Citizens United and for America’s middle class. Join me, and let’s make sure all Americans have an equal voice in our future.
 
Sen. Michael Bennet

Posted 1/1/12

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If it doesn’t help billionaires and huge corporations, Republicans can’t be bothered.

John Boehner’s radical Republicans left town rather than pass a bill to protect middle class families from a $1,000 payroll tax hike. But Senate Democrats stood firm. Boehner caved. The interests of the 99 percent were protected.

This time.

10 Senate races are dead heats. If Republicans flip 4, they will seize complete control of Congress.  We wouldn’t be able to stop their next attack on the middle class.

That’s why we must stop them now. And we only have 4 days to do it (before the end of the year).

We’re still $234,000 short of meeting our Dec. 31 FEC deadline. If we miss this goal, the first stories of 2012 – election year – will be how Democrats fell short. We will lose momentum. Republicans will surge. We can’t let that happen.

Can you give $5 or $10 right now? We can’t stop the Republicans without your help.

We’ve reached the turning point in the upcoming election. The Iowa caucuses are only days away. This is when we grab momentum – or cede it to the Republicans.

This is when choices are made. We can have a fighter for the middle class Elizabeth Warren – or Wall Street’s favorite senator Scott Brown. We can have a safety net beneath us – or nothing but bootstraps. We can strengthen the middle class – or favor billionaires by shifting the burden onto workers’ backs.

I need you to be part of this choice. Join us. The DSCC relies on its more than 500,000 supporters to elect the Elizabeth Warrens, defeat the Scott Browns and ensure that the middle class has a voice in the Senate. Without you, we will fall short. We will lose.

I need you to give $5 or $10 right now. We still have $234,000 left to raise before our most important FEC deadline – only 5 days away. We can’t stop the Republicans without your help.

I’m not about to let Republicans get away with their blatant attacks on the middle class – and I know you aren’t either. It’s time to back up our beliefs with action. Let’s start 2012 with a massive sign of strength.

Guy Cecil
DSCC Executive Director

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Help NAACP Stop Voter Suppression:

Help Stop Voter Suppression

Friend,

Last week, NAACP issued a call for voting rights in the streets of New York, at the United Nations and across the nation through the media. The far right is now on the defensive about their attack on voting rights.  In collaboration with NAACP, we have put together a video about the impact of the voting right attacks on communities of color. Please take a moment to watch and spread the message to everyone you know.

In the rural South, many people of a certain age have no birth certificate because they were born to a midwife. For them, the barriers to getting a state issued ID without a birth certificate are tremendous. Others are dependent on rides to the polls provided by church-organized Sunday voting drives, which have been shut down in some states.

In 2012, we will work with NAACP to ensure every American has the ability to vote.   Across the country, community activists are joining us in that effort. As our video shows, South Carolina doctor Brenda Williams has spent countless hours and thousands of dollars helping her patients clear the financial and legal hurdles associated with satisfying the state's new strict voter ID law.

Dr. Williams is a hero in her community – but she cannot do it alone. It is going to take the efforts of people like you to help strengthen our front line and ensure our right to vote in 2012 and beyond.  I urge you to take this opportunity to make this movement your own and stand on the right side of history. Please take a moment to watch this story and  share it with your friends.

We would like to make sure that everyone has a voice!

Best,

Robert Greenwald

 

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