New ad attacks Casey but who's paying for it? (Americans for Job Security)

[Blue State Bandit]

http://www.philly.com/mld/dailynews/14266543.htm

By BOB WARNER
[e-mail] 215-854-5885

A VIRGINIA-based group that refuses to identify its contributors is throwing another $400,000 into the U.S. Senate race in Pennsylvania.

The Americans for Job Security, classified by the Internal Revenue Service as a "nonprofit business association," is hitting the Philadelphia television market with an advertisement that criticizes the attendance record of Democratic state Treasurer Bob Casey.

The same group spent nearly $1 million last year for TV ads praising Casey's Republican opponent, U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum, for his work on Social Security and tax issues.

The new ads allege that Casey "skipped work more than 43 percent of the time... . Just three months after being sworn in as treasurer, Bob Casey was already skipping work to look for another job."


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Americans for Job Security is a Rebushican attack group using a tax code loophole to funnel corprate money into elections.
Read
http://www.stealthpacs.org/profile.cfm?org_id=41#1
and
http://www.texasobserver.org/showArticle.asp?ArticleID=1590
for back story of this group.

[UpInArms]

1. see also: Why the GOP war chest is even bigger than you think.

http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/2004/0405.confessore.html

But they were also eager to protect a whole other category of 501(c)s--one that has garnered little attention from campaign finance reform groups or reporters covering the 2004 election. Like the Democratic 527s, these groups have innocuous-sounding names: Americans for Job Security, for example, and Progress for America. Like the 527s, these groups are staffed by veteran party operatives and, in practice, are wholly or primarily devoted to getting their side's candidates elected. And like the 527s, they may raise and spend unlimited amounts of soft money on radio and television ads, direct mail, and voter contact efforts.

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[Blue State Bandit]

3. Sorry. Done.

[drm604]

4. Yep, I've been seeing these

broadcast in the Philly area. I've been wondering just what the heck "Americans for Job Security" was. I figured it was another phoney Republican front group. I wonder if they're trying to knock him out in the primary?

[salin]

5. then shouldn't they lose their nonprofit status?

er - big ad buys pro one candidate, and big ad buys anti the opposition candidate? That isn't even close to anything but crossing the nonprofit lines.

[AX10]

6. Where are the Democratic 501(c)'s?

Dems better get some of their own.