AFP starts fall campaign with ad buy against Democrats

CBS News:

Americans for Prosperity (AFP), which is backed by the conservative Koch brothers, is flooding the web with a seven-figure ad buy targeting nine Democrats, five senators and four representatives, ahead of the midterm elections.

Six of the ads target the politicians for their votes in favor of the Affordable Care Act, with several reminding viewers that Mr. Obama's promise that, "if you like your health plan, you can keep it," was named the Lie of the Year by fact-checking website PolitiFact in 2013.

A few lawmakers get special treatment, though. Alaska Sen. Mark Begich is called out for missing more votes than 80 percent of his colleagues in the Senate. Sen. Kay Hagan is hammered by a North Carolina mother for voting in favor of increased spending. And the ad aimed at Sen. Mary Landrieu of Louisiana highlights the fact that she owns a $2 million residence in Washington, D.C.

"Easy to forget your roots in a place like that, especially after almost 20 years in D.C.," the narrator says.

Landrieu's residency is playing a role in what is already a major uphill battle to re-election after a report in the Washington Post last week revealed that she listed her parents' home address in New Orleans as her voting residence.

"It is disappointing to see so many lawmakers around the country supporting the Obama Agenda, even at the expense of doing what is best for the families they were elected to represent," AFP President Tim Phillips said in a statement. "Our message to these representatives from Alaska to New Hampshire is this: start putting people before politics, and to rethink their support for harmful, short-sighted policies that are putting Americans' health and prosperity at risk."

The other ads target Sens. Mark Pryor of Arkansas and Mark Udall of Colorado, as well as Reps. Ron Barber of Arizona, Joe Garcia of Florida, Ann Kuster of New Hampshire and Nick Rahall of West Virginia.
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Democrats are vulnerable because the policies they supported have not worked and have hurt people.  It is smart to remind voters of that.  This fall should see more such ads.