Ad Roundup: House edition:
• CA-07: The NRCC attacks Democratic Rep. Ami Bera over his father’s conviction for trying to illegally funnel money to Bera’s campaign. The ad frames the younger Bera as complicit, but investigators said there wasn’t any evidence the congressman knew of his father’s scheme. The ad pivots to touting Republican Scott Jones’ leadership as Sacramento County sheriff.
• CA-10: In this Spanish-language spot, Democrat Michael Eggman and the DCCC play some of Trump’s offensive statements, using them to criticize Republican Rep. Jeff Denham for not speaking out against Trump.
• CA-49: Democrat Doug Applegate slams Republican Rep. Darrell Issa and Tea Party Republicans for voting against health care for 9/11 first-responders.
• CO-06: The NRCC lambasts Democrat Morgan Carroll for increasing spending and taxes as a state senator.
• FL-13: House Majority PAC attacks Republican Rep. David Jolly for taking thousands from Duke Energy while voters keep paying for a power plant that won’t be built.
• FL-18: The Congressional Leadership Fund hammers Democrat Randy Perkins for profiteering off of tragedy with his disaster-relief company. The NRCC joins in and accuses Perkins of similar charges, while also claiming he disrespected veterans with attacks on Republican Brian Mast.
• IA-01: The NRCC hits Democrat Monica Vernon over taxes and increasing her own pay. Meanwhile, Vernon and the DCCC slam Blum for false attacks, claiming she donated her salary increases to charity while Blum kept his whole salary after first promising he would take only take half of it. She closes out by noting he wants to cut Social Security raise the retirement age.
• IL-10: Republican Rep. Bob Dold blames Both Sides™ for what’s wrong with Washington, touting his independence and bipartisanship.
• ME-02: House Majority PAC hits Republican Rep. Bruce Poliquin for being a “Wall Street millionaire” who claimed he was a logger solely to avoid taxes on a multi-million dollar waterfront property.
• MI-01: The NRCC attacks Democrat Lon Johnson for being “proud of Obamacare,” using the misleading claim of $700 billion in cuts to Medicare, even though those were to providers only, not beneficiaries. House Majority PAC has two spots that hit Republican Jack Bergman for wanting to privatize Social Security and supporting trade deals. Their spots are otherwise identical, except one says Bergman is wrong for Northern Michigan while the other says the Upper Peninsula instead.
• MI-06: Democrat Paul Clements highlights his biography and says he’ll fight for solutions for everyday people.
• MN-02: House Majority PAC and the American Federation of Teachers hit Republican Jason Lewis over the many atrocious things he has said during his conservative radio career.
• MN-08: The NRCC slams Democratic Rep. Rick Nolan as being weak on national security and fighting ISIS. House Majority PAC attacks Republican Stewart Mills over saying he was personally offended by the notion that the wealthy don’t pay their fair share in taxes, noting that he wants to privatize Social Security, raise the retirement age, and cut benefits.
• NE-02: House Majority PAC attacks Republican Don Bacon for wanting to cut Social Security by raising the retirement age.
• NV-03: The NRCC calls out Democrat Jacky Rosen for supporting Obamacare.
• NV-04: The NRCC slams Democrat Ruben Kihuen for backing “the largest tax hike in Nevada’s history,” which they of course neglect to mention was a signature accomplishment of Republican Gov. Brian Sandoval and the Republican-controlled legislature.
• NY-19: The NRCC attacks Democrat Zephyr Teachout over Pres. Obama’s Iran nuclear deal.
• NY-22: The NRCC hits Democrat Kim Meyers and right-leaning independent Martin Babinec for cozying up to Clinton and Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo.
• TX-23: The NRCC paints Democratic ex-Rep. Pete Gallego as a consummate Washington insider who will be Nancy Pelosi’s stooge if he returns to office.
• VA-10: The NRCC claims Democrat LuAnn Bennett is a Washington insider who took a “sweetheart deal” requiring her to build a preschool in D.C., but instead turned it into a parking lot after pocketing $30 million in tax breaks, yet they omitted key details. In 1990, D.C. broke many of its development agreements, and Bennett acquired the vacant property in a legal settlement, which required any development project to also include a preschool. It went undeveloped for two decades, during most of which the city let Bennett sublease it to the federal government to use as parking, until she turned it into a multi-purpose development including a Walmart in 2011. Bennett’s company didn’t have to pay property taxes during that time period, which certainly doesn’t look great, but isn’t quite as bad as the NRCC makes it seem.
• WI-08: Democrat Tom Nelson uses clips of Republican Mike Gallagher speaking to argue the latter opposes raising the minimum wage and wants tax cuts for big corporations.