For months, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has been unrelenting in his criticism of Charles and David Koch, the wealthy industrialists who have backed some of the nation's most effective conservative groups. Democrats said the GOP messaging plan only confirmed their suspicions that the constant campaign against the national health care law wasn't succeeding in moving public opinion. Republicans are now discontinuing the strategy they've employed the last 18 months," senior Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee aide Matt Canter wrote in his own strategy memo, "and are now mounting an aggressive defense of the Koch brothers. Strategists from both parties are betting heavily that voters, distrustful of Washington, take their word that shady outsiders stand to benefit if their favored candidates prevail. In Florida, a tea party leader pledged to "rip the gavel out of Harry Reid's hand." [...] in an ad in North Carolina, leading GOP Senate hopeful Thom Tillis gives Reid credit for an ad he is not directly behind: Know who's paying for the sleazy ads? "The out-of-state billionaire Koch brothers funded the fight to let flood insurance premiums soar, helping the insurance companies," says one Louisiana television ad from the Senate Majority PAC, a group run by former Reid aides that is also behind the North Carolina ads. In the memo, the RNC urges allies to amplify reports that Reid reimbursed his political campaign for more than $16,000 in holiday gifts made by his granddaughter and given to his friends and supporters. [...] Reid announced he would pay out of his own pocket after the Federal Election Commission asked for more information and Republicans ridiculed the payments to his granddaughter's company, which makes jewelry and similar items.
Boogeymen And Shady Deals Define Spin For Senate
By PHILIP ELLIOTT, Associated Press, Seattle Post-Intelligencer: Business
Wed, 04/23/2014 - 11:31am
Topics: senate majority leader harry reid charles david koch democrats democratic senatorial campaign committee matt canter strategists washington in florida harry reid gop senate thom tillis senate majority pac rnc federal election commission reid reid koch gop republicans in north carolina shady brothers months strategy granddaughter memo ads
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