Grassley Criticized By Longtime Iowa Republican In New Health Care Ad

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/08/31/grassley-criticized-by-fe_n_272725.html

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Two progressive groups launched a hard new television ad on Monday, using the testimony of a longtime Iowa Republican voter to attack Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) for his opposition to a public option health care option.

Sponsored by Progressive Change Campaign Committee (PCCC) and Democracy for America (DFA), the spot charts new ground in the health care reform debate. To date, the allied groups have used their ad money to target conservative Democrats who have been hesitant to support a government-administered plan for insurance coverage.

In going after one of the key Republican negotiators in the Senate their goal is twofold: To exert a political price for opposing President Obama's agenda and to persuade Democrats that Grassley is not negotiating in good faith.

To deliver the message, PCCC and DFA have an ideal narrator. Kevin Shilling of Greenfield, Iowa, starts the ad by noting that he "voted for Reagan, Nixon, George W. Bush and Senator Chuck Grassley too."

"I served my country for over 24 years in the army," he says. "I've talked to friends and neighbors around Iowa and one thing is clear. No matter what the politicians in Washington D.C. say, Democrats and Republicans back home want the public insurance option."

"I voted for Senator Grassley in the past," Shilling adds. "But when Grassley takes over $2 million from the big health and insurance industries that oppose reform and then says he won't give Iowans the choice of a public option, I have to ask: Senator, whose side are you on?"

The ad, according to a PCCC official, will air in Washington D.C. as well as several Iowa markets -- Cedar Rapids, Davenport, Des Moines, and Sioux City. The initial purchase has the spot running 200 times in Iowa and 100 times in DC, starting tomorrow. But additional fundraising will determine how many weeks it will stay on the air.

grassley..are you hanging yourself out there against a Public Option and Taking money from Insurance Companies?!!!

Too sick how much bad chutzpah grassley is full of.

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It's time to get personal.

"All politics are personal" Ted Kennedy.

and he has voted for Dems and other Communists all his life.

Just getting a jump on the Swiftboaters. If this ad attracts any national media attention at all, you just know they'll go after this guy.

I don't believe the people that put this ad together are so stupid as to not check out whether this man is telling the truth or not. Where did you obtain your information? Also you outed yourself by calling Democrats communists. You people just can't help but LIE can you?

discredit him if the ad takes off.

How quickly they forget. Nice to know someone here gets it. I was starting to wonder there for a minute.

I outed myself?

:rofl:

See post 11. And maybe get a sense of humor while you're at it. Sheesh.

Sure. Whatever

:D

To hell with the Republicans let them go down opposing the most popular legislation of the 21st century.

Let's see more of this, please, in all of the states. Let's acknowledge what the majority of the people want for a change!