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Reid: Ads targeting moderates ‘not helpful’

WASHINGTON — Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said today that a liberal group’s ad campaign to push moderate lawmakers in support of the president’s budget is “not helpful.”

The group Americans United for Change started running TV ads this week in 12 states that are home to some of the Senate’s moderate Democrats and Republicans who could provide key votes in the budget battle next week.

The ads tells viewers in North Dakota, home to the Senate Budget Committee chairman, Sen. Kent Conrad, and other states to call lawmakers “and tell them you support President Obama’s budget.”

With an expanded Democratic majority in Congress, Reid faces increasing challenges as he tries to keep the diverse senators on his side of the aisle in agreement. For example, Sen. Evan Bayh of Indiana has launched a new alliance of 15 moderate Democratic senators.

Ads are running in Bayh’s state, as well as in Maine, Nebraska, Virginia, Alaska, Louisiana, Arkansas, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Arizona and New Hampshire.

“It’s very unwise and not helpful,” Reid told reporters this morning. “These groups should leave them alone. It’s not helpful to me. It’s not helpful to the Democratic caucus.”

The group has been a friend of Reid, running several ads in Nevada since the start of the year in support of his leadership in the Senate -- helpful as he prepares for re-election in 2010.

Discussion: 3 comments so far...

  1. DON'T LET THESE POLITICIANS DISTRACT YOU FROM MAJOR ISSUES?

    Illuminate these Senators names on every billboard across the United States. These should be recorded and go down in history along with traitor Benedict Arnold.

    Don't let these lawmakers distract you from major issues, such as E-Verify and imminent AMNESTY?
    They are the ones who sold out American Workers by stamping out the federal E-Verify, to identify millions of ILLEGAL ALIENS IN THE WORKPLACE. With 10 million American jobless, these legislators left the door open for foreign labor. REMEMBER THEIR NAMES IN THE NEAR FUTURE. THEY REMOVED IT FROM THE STIMULUS/ OMNIBUS SPENDING BILL

    Reid-Akaka-Inouye-Begich-Bennet-Udall-Bingaman-Udall-Boxer-Feinstein-Brown-Burris-Durbin-Byrd-Rockefeller-Cantwell-Murray-Cardin-Mikulski-
    Carper-Kaufman-Casey-Conrad-Dorgan-Dodd-Lieberman-Feingold-Kohl-Gillibrand-Schumer-Harkin-Johnson-Kerry-Landrieu-Shaheen-Leahy-Sanders-
    Levin-Stabenow-Lincoln-Pryor-Menendez-Lautenberg-Merkley-Wyden-Nelson-Reed-Whitehouse-Reid-Warner and Lady Pelosi. Xavier Becerra, Luis Gutierrez,Jon Kyl, Jeff Flake could also used their influence. We need E.Verify as a permanent tool in immigration enforcement.

    Make your vote count and demand E-Verify in Washington. 202-224-3121 President Obama Switchboard: 202-456-1414/ The facts at JUDICIALWATCH, NUMBERSUSA, CAPSWEB.

  2. Yes and now Reid is claiming JUstice Roberts lied to Reid during his hearing for the Supreme Court. Reid you are a *** d** LIAR. You and obama ought to be ashamed of yourselfs and your lies.
    obamas craps and shove carbon tax is going to double the cost of food, double the cost of electricity, double the cost gasoline.
    I know this means nothing to your overpaid government hoards but to hard working taxpayers this is an abomination reid. take you budget bill and put it where the sun don't shine.

  3. Sarah Palin and Mitt Romney must beat Barack Obama and Joe Biden in 2012 because they are of the superior conservative right wing philosophy in that they are pro God and Christianity, pro life, pro marriage; pro guns-second amendment, pro low taxes, pro low government spending; pro small government, pro unintrusive government, pro traditional and judeo Christian values; pro Bible reading and prayer in our public schools, pro Christians schools and private education , pro private and free enterprise; pro military spending, anti arms agreements with Russia, pro creation; pro nuclear, pro conservative supreme court judges, pro American sovereignty; pro capitalism, anti communist, anti socialist; anti immigration, and pro constitution.Barack Obama and Joe Biden are of the inferior liberal and left wing ideology in that they are against every thing that Sarah Palin and Mitt Ronmney are for and they are for every thing that Sarah Palin and Mitt Romney are against

    Palin-Romney 2012 or Romney-Palin 2012

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