The battle for Wisconsin is hitting the airwaves. Greg Sargent reports that a group partly funded by the billionaire Koch brothers is about to run some ads:
Here's something else that will ratchet up the stakes in the Wisconsin standoff and fuel suspicions about the real goal behind the push to roll back public employee rights: The well-funded conservative group Americans for Prosperity is set to start running ads in Wisconsin, I'm told.
"We're planning to run TV and radio ads in Wisconsin starting tomorrow, as well as host a few events across the state later this week," Americans for Prosperity spokesperson Mary Ellen Burke emails. "Things are happening quickly as the news story in Wisconsin progresses."(…)
Americans for Prosperity, of course, was partly created and bankrolled by the secretive billionaire Koch brothers, who are also major financial backers of Governor Scott Walker.
The arch-right-wing Club for Growth is already running ads in the state, according to an email on Saturday from the Wisconsin Senate Democrats.
Our side is not silent, however. The Wisconsin AFL-CIO, in conjunction with AFSCME, SEIU, the American Federation of Teachers and the National Education Association, has made a significant buy in Wisconsin promoting this:
At Daily Kos, we're going to get the protesters' backs and start running some ads of our own. We are going to run $2,000 of Facebook ads across the entire state of Wisconsin urging people to watch the awesome video of the protests set to the music of Arcade Fire. The goal will be to have as many Wisconsinites as possible see the real faces of the protests, not the distorted images that Fox News will show.
Contribute to Daily Kos on Orange to Blue to help us run these ads. We are going to run two ads a day, putting $500 behind each ad. The second day, we'll keep the ad that performs the best, and cycle in a new one. The ads we're opening with are on the left. If we raise more than $2,000, we can keep going for more than two days.
In addition to contributing, you can help out by posting the video onto your Facebook wall, and by liking the video when you see a friend post it on his or her wall. The embed code can be found on either YouTube or Vimeo. By combining the buzz that is already around the video with both volunteer action and paid ads, we can create a real multiplier effect to help the people of Wisconsin see the true face of the protests.
Once again, here is the video we are promoting:
Please, contribute $10 to Daily Kos to help us run these ads.