The nationally significant 20th Congressional District special election between Democratic candidate Scott Murphy and Republican candidate Assembly Minority Leader Jim Tedisco, has attracted the attention of a wingnut, Democrats-are-traitors outfit from California.
The Our Country Deserves Better PAC has spent some level of six figures on extraordinarily negative TV and radio ads in a little Congressional district 3,000 miles away.
Who these guys are, and what they've been saying, below.
In their own words, this is what the Our Country Deserves Better PAC is about:
Our Country Deserves Better PAC is leading the fight to champion the Reaganesque conservatism of lower taxes, smaller government, a strong national defense, and respect for the strength of the family as the core of a strong America.
Our nation's future is at stake, and we must stand up to Barack Obama and the Democrat-controlled Congress.
The head honchos of this outfit are Howard Kaloogian and Sal Russo, who helped coordinate the talk-radio campaign to recall California Gov. Gray Davis and elect a Republican in his place.
The co-vice chairman of this outfit is minor-league, and evidently unemployed, wingnut radio hater Mark Williams, whose infrequently-visited website calls Daily Kos and the "Democrat" Party "Domestic Enemies and other Moon Bats."
He also calls "President-elect Hussein Soetoro," Democracy Now, ACORN, and Jimmy Carter "21st Century Nazis."
The other co-vice chairman is Deborah Johns -- a military mom who was a vociferous anti-Cindy Sheehan campaigner, sponsored by the same California wingnuts under the Move America Forward name.
Back before the 2008 election, Williams, Johns and a few other wingnut nobodies did a cross-country Stop Obama bus tour that was a big FAIL.
Our County Deserves Better PAC has paid for several cross-country TV and radio ads trashing Scott Murphy.
The latest is a radio ad by Johns, that began running this week.
Here's what Johns says in that ad:
I'm Deborah Johns, the proud mother of Marine Sgt. William Johns.
William served in the War on Terror because he wanted to give back to the country he loves.
I've become very active supporting our military men and women, making sure our leaders stay loyal to our troops.
(Scary background music starts here)
Let me tell you, I'm furious with Scott Murphy, the liberal Democrat candidate for Congress.
Murphy was an anti-military activist, fighting to keep the military's ROTC program off the Harvard campus.
Murphy wants to close the terrorist prison at Gitmo, even though some of those terrorists would likely be released here, on American soil.
And now, Murphy opposes the death penalty for terrorists, even though who orchestrated the horrific 9/11 attacks.
Folks, our military men and women deserve better than liberal Democrat Scott Murphy.
So the California wingnut millionaires who support Johns wrote a script for her that slams Murphy for something he wrote when he was 19 and for his current principled opposition to the death penalty, which he first mentioned on Friday.
And uses the Gingrich/Limbaugh "Democrat" as an adjective.
As I wrote back in October, "this is just one little corner of Wingnuttia, but it's remarkable for its viciousness."
Nothing has changed since then.
It's never too late to give Scott Murphy some credit-card love.
And, if you're in the neighborhood, to volunteer to get out the vote.
Please do whatever you can.