Today's edition of the Hotline reports that an organization named Americans for Job Security is running television ads touting Rick Santorum in every Pennsylvania media market except Philadelphia. The organization has reportedly spent about $450 thousand on its ad buy.
So what is Americans for Job Security and why do they like Rick so much? Here's how OpenSecrets.org describes the group: "A pro-Republican, pro-business organization, Virginia-based AJS was established to directly counter labor's influence." And here's a recent description from the Texas Observer:
Meanwhile Nelson had co-founded the GOP media shop Dawson McCarthy Nelson Media (DMNM) in 2001. Among the clients claimed on DMNM’s website is Americans for Job Security (AJS), a shadowy Virginia-based group that the American Insurance Association helped launch in 1997 by supplying $1 million in seed money. AJS takes out attack ads against liberal and moderate candidates nationwide without disclosing its political contributions or expenditures. This track record of spending large quantities of undisclosed funds on attack ads has fostered the perception that AJS is a for-hire corporate attack dog. Last year Austin-based Campaigns for People filed a complaint with Travis County District Attorney Ronnie Earle, urging him to investigate if AJS violated Texas’ prohibition on corporate electioneering. At issue were 2003 attack ads that AJS unleashed to help defeat moderate Tommy Merritt in the Republican primary for a vacated senate seat in 2003 (“Meet the Attack Dogs,” March 12, 2004).
We'll try to post the video of the ad as soon as we can get a hold of it. Stay tuned.
They don't give a rat's ass about my job or your job Ryan (unless ofcourse you are an insurance executive some other executive.)
Being pro-corporate in PA is absurd. Have you ever been to a steel town you fuck?!
When he's oput of the Senate, you can be sure he'll be a lobbyist. No baaackbone whatsoever!