ROVE ALERT! - Misdirection from Crossroads GPS

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http://factcheck.org/2010/08/misdirection-from-crossroads-gps/


Ads from a Rove-connected group attack Democratic Senate candidates with faulty claims on health care law.


A group with ties to Karl Rove sends viewers astray in a $2 million ad campaign attacking Democratic Senate candidates in Pennsylvania, California and Kentucky. The ads make badly misleading claims about the health care legislation that those Democrats supported.

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Crossroads GPS, an affiliate of the conservative, Karl Rove-connected American Crossroads group, is spending more than $2 million on the three ad campaigns: $500,000 in Pennsylvania, $1 million in California and $520,000 in Kentucky, according to the group. The ads began airing last week. Crossroads GPS is organized as a 501(c)(4) under the federal tax code and thus, unlike its parent group, isn’t required to disclose its donors — though it says on its website there are "no limits" to the amount of money it will accept from U.S. corporations (or unions, for that matter). Officially, the full name of the group is Crossroads Grassroots Policy Strategies, and it says "our goal is to provide a clear road map for concerned Americans." But we find this GPS is giving bad directions.

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wonder how much Rove is being paid - maybe the brothers Koch are paying him

[Sal Minella]

1. "Who's paying him?" would be my second question.

My first would be, "Who would pay any attention to anything this rancid little maggot says???"

[activa8tr]

3. The Koch brothers, from Koch industries and others funneling $

all over this campaign.

If people don't know who they are and what they are.. Google New Yorker Magazine, Koch Brothers.

[Sal Minella]

6. Link to New Yorker story

Jane Mayer's article:

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/08/30/100830fa_fact_mayer

[flamingdem]

7. Thanks for that link. Highly recommended reading nt

[activa8tr]

8. Yes, thank you! n/t

[Sal Minella]

9. It's been in my Bookmarks for days and I've sent it to several people.

Jane Mayer's interview with Terri Gross on "Fresh Air" (NPR) last week was also very interesting.

[activa8tr]

10. I LOVE your name! Makes me LOL !!! Thanks again! n/t

[flamingdem]

2. Rove has his hands all over the midterms, important story please REC nt

[Kajsa]

4. Their ad slamming Barbara Boxer

has been out a few weeks now, here in CA.

It claims she voted to "cut funding for MediCare"
and has seniors in CA " worried" they may lose
their benefits.

So far, every damn Repub. candidate running in CA
has resorted to nothing but lies and innuendos in
their campaigns.

Two of them,
Ms. Megabucks and Carly Fiorina, have very deep
pockets. Megabucks has bombarded the airwaves here
with her ads, spending over $120 million on her campaign
so far.

It's disgusting!

[The Wielding Truth]

5. Fitzgerald,why didn't you work harder to put Rove , the corrupt *#@*, in jail?