Pennsylvania Democrat Katie McGinty is about to face $3 million of Koch money as she tries to unseat Republican Sen. Pat Toomey. That’s how much the Koch-backed Super PAC Freedom Partners Action Fund is spending on an ad now:
The ad, titled "Whose Job," charges that McGinty, as head of the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection sought subsidies for companies that later paid her after her role in the government ended.
McGinty's Communications Director Sarbina Singh responded to the ad, calling it "desperate."
"Toomey - the best Senator Wall Street and the Koch Brothers ever had - is going to need all the help he can get to hide his abysmal record of putting his special interest allies ahead of Pennsylvania's middle class families," Singh said in a statement.
The Koch network has also recently reserved $30 million in ad time in Senate races for August and September.
The good news for McGinty, besides that she’s doing well enough for the Koch brothers’ people to be targeting her, is that their ads in other races haven’t done so well.
TV stations pulled a deceptive ad against Russ Feingold in Wisconsin. An ad assailed Nevada’s Catherine Cortez Masto for successfully doing her job and getting a settlement her Republican opponent praised. An ad in Ohio featured a businessman who was on the record saying his company had done well during Ted Strickland’s time as governor. It’s starting to seem like a Koch-funded attack ad is an opportunity for Democratic Senate candidates to get good press, because those ads backfire so regularly.
But this $3 million isn’t the last outside money McGinty will face in this campaign. Please give $3 to help send Katie McGinty to the Senate. The future of the Supreme Court depends on it.