Club PAC Releases Ads in MD-01
Club PAC Releases New Ad in Md-01
Gilchrest and Pipkin = Pelosi and O’Malley
Washington – Today, the Club for Growth PAC released a new television and radio ad in a $250,000 ad buy across Maryland’s First Congressional District.
Entitled “Four of a Kind,” the television ad (see below) points out that Wayne Gilchrest voted with Nancy Pelosi and liberal Democrats more often than any other Republican House member (CQ Politics) and that E.J. Pipkin joined the Democrats in voting for Governor Martin O’Malley’s massive, big-spending FY 2008 budget (HB 50, 04/02/07). “Maryland Republicans deserve better than Nancy Pelosi and Martin O’Malley look-alikes,” said Club for Growth President Pat Toomey. “They deserve a principled conservative like State Senator Andy Harris.”
Entitled “Masquerade,” the radio ad (MP3 file) demonstrates that Gilchrest and Pipkin are pretending to be conservatives, but beneath their masks, they are two economic liberals who side with Pelosi and Governor O’Malley. Pipkin even voted for an eminent domain bill (HB 907, 04/04/05), giving the government the power to take private property from one person and give it to another and donated money to Democrat Kathleen Kennedy Townsend’s campaign. That doesn’t sound very conservative.
“No matter what Wayne Gilchrest and E.J. Pipkin say on the campaign trail, their records demonstrate that they are not conservative, and they will not fight for taxpayers in Congress,” Mr. Toomey added. “In Congress, Gilchrest has a long record of voting for pork, voting for tax hikes, and voting against political free speech. In the Maryland State Legislature, Pipkin has demonstrated a similar tendency, voting for massive increases in government spending and eminent domain abuse.”
“In stark contrast, Andy Harris has a long track record of voting against bloated state budgets and fighting tax increases. If elected to Congress, Andy Harris will be a congressman Maryland Republicans can be proud of.”
The $250,000 ad buy will run on broadcast and cable television stations and radio stations in the Baltimore and Salisbury markets for two weeks. The scripts are below and documentation is attached.
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