Super Pac Founded by Karl Rove Targets Elizabeth Warren with Attack Ads
Posted: November 10, 2011 Filed under: #Occupy and We are the 99 percent!, Republican politics, U.S. Economy, U.S. Politics | Tags: Crossroads GPS, Ed Gillespie, Elizabeth Warren, Karl Rove, Massachusetts Senate race, Mindy Meyers, Scott Brown, super pac 8 CommentsCrossroads Grassroots Policy Strategies (GPS), an organization that Karl Rove founded with Ed Gillespie, is spending nearly $600,000 on ads targeting Massachusetts Senate Candidate Elizabeth Warren over her support for the Occupy Movement. From the Boston Herald:
“Fourteen million out of work, but instead of focusing on jobs, Elizabeth Warren sides with extreme left protests,” a voiceover says in the ad as text identifies Warren as “professor.”
The 30-second ad released by the conservative group Crossroads Grassroots Policy Strategies comes after League of Conservation Voters launched their own television campaign blasting Republican U.S. Sen. Scott Brown for backing “big oil.”
The ad blasts the conditions surrounding the Occupy movement’s protests.
“At Occupy Wall Street protestors attack police, do drugs and trash public parks. They support radical redistribution of wealth and violence,” the voiceover says. “But Warren boasts, ‘I created much on the intellectual foundation for what they do.’ ”
The ad ends stating, “We need jobs not intellectual theories and radical protests.”
Here is what Elizabeth Warren actually said in an interview with The Daily Beast last month:
TDB: I’m curious: Is there something that is keeping you away from this movement? Is there a reason why you haven’t embraced it?
EW: Look, everybody has to follow the law. That’s the starting point. I’ve been fighting this fight for years and years now. As I see it, this is about two central points: one, this is about the lack of accountability. That Wall Street has not been held accountable for how they broke the economy. The second is a values question, a fundamental fairness around the way that markets have been distorted and families have been hurt. I’m still fighting that fight. I’m just fighting it from this angle. I’m fighting it from … I want to fight it from the floor of the United States Senate. I think that is a place to make this difference.
TDB: Is showing solidarity with them going to get in the way of that?
EW: It’s not a question of solidarity. I just don’t think that’s the right way to say it. I support what they do. I want to say this in a way that doesn’t sound puffy. I created much of the intellectual foundation for what they do. That’s the right thing. There has to be multiple ways for people to get involved and take back our country. The fight that I’m fighting now is one that is directed towards the United State Senate. That’s just how I see it.
I found out about the huge ad buy in an e-mail from Warren’s new campaign manager Mindy Meyers.
A former chief of staff to Sen. [Sheldon] Whitehouse (D-R.I.), Myers managed Whitehouse’s first campaign, as well as successful 2010 campaign of Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.). She also worked for President Bill Clinton’s administration and advised Al Gore’s 2000 presidential campaign.
“Mindy’s leadership, political savvy and strong organizing skills, along with her experience winning tough races, makes her the perfect choice to lead this campaign,” Warren said in a statement.
All I have to say is, Go, Elizabeth, Go!!
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She seems like the genuine article!!!
I hope Karl Rove and compatriots gets his head handed to him.
And, Happy 236th Anniversary Marine Corps!
I am still waiting for TIME or 60 Minutes to do an article on Karl Rove’s connection in Sweden and its government while working for the Bush Administration. I suspect Karl Rove has his hand in the cookie jar to extradite Julian Assange to Sweden too. Where are the journos when you need them…
I hope Elizabeth Warren wins and that the Occupy Boston people GET MAD AS HELL and go out and register voters to show KARL ROVE his ‘dirty MONEY’ and Trash politics aren’t selling anymore. We are waking up to their tactics, working people aren’t radical, they simply want everyone to pay their fair share of taxes…no more corporate welfare or BailOuts for the ultra rich.
Go Elizabeth GO!
Wow, BB. The Rovians must see Warren as a real threat. She’s the Woman Who Would Throw Stones, the Matriarch of Mayhem, a Marxist/Socialist, a Supporter and the Intellectual Theorist of Radical, Violent Groups [OWS], etc.
Holy Smokes! Call in Homeland Security. The woman’s a national threat!
Hyperbole anyone???
I’m really glad Warren has a seasoned professional managing her campaign. Sounds as if the Repugs are going to throw the kitchen sink at her. Hopefully, she’ll whip their butts. I read earlier, she’s drawing very impressive numbers for her volunteer teams. Even in conservative districts.
Go, Sister!
Btw, here’s an interesting tidbit from Greg Sargent’s Plum Line:
“I don’t know how much of Crossroads’ current fundraising comes from the “one percent,” but as Laura Clawson points out, this Michael Isikoff scoop on the group’s overall 2010 fundraising efforts is worth recalling:
A substantial portion of Crossroads GPS’ money came from a small circle of extremely wealthy Wall Street hedge fund and private equity moguls, according to GOP fundraising sources who spoke with NBC News on condition of anonymity.”
Someone suggested the best response to the GOP assault? “This ad is brought to you from the 1%, for the 1%.
Hahahaha!
Time to donate to her efforts……………..