Businesswoman Marie Newman, who is challenging Blue Dog Rep. Dan Lipinski in the March Democratic primary in Illinois’s 3rd Congressional District, is out with her first TV ad of the campaign, and she's going right on the attack. The spot hits Lipinski exactly where he's weakest: his conservative voting record.
Narrator: The more Democrats learn about conservative Dan Lipinski, the more they're done with Dan. Lipinski cosponsored 52 bills to restrict a woman's right to choose and repeatedly votes to defund Planned Parenthood. Lipinski voted against the DREAM Act, still opposes marriage equality, and was the only Democrat in Illinois to vote against Obamacare.
There's a better Democrat for working families: Marie Newman. Marie is 100 percent pro-choice and supports our immigrant and LGBTQ communities.
All of those are very good reasons to throw Lipinski out! Lipinski, of course, only responded to Newman's ad in rote fashion, saying in a statement, "I'm proud of my record of success solving problems for my constituents and helping provide better jobs, wages, healthcare, and education for the middle class." But in a joint appearance with Newman before the Chicago Sun-Times editorial board over the weekend, Lipinski repeatedly refused to back a $15 per hour minimum wage—something that organized labor, Lipinski's most important pillar of support, is in favor of (as is Newman).
The rest of that interview didn't make Lipinski look any better. Reporter Mark Brown says that Lipinski, who "spent most of the hour on the defensive," reiterated that he's "pro-life" because "science shows that life begins at conception," affirmed that "[p]ersonally, I don't support" same-sex marriage, and would only say that a Colorado baker who refused to make a wedding cake for a gay couple presented a "very difficult question" about free speech. (Newman called it discrimination.)
As Newman said, "I don't think he understands the district has changed beyond dramatically since his tenure." She just has to get that message out.
Please send $3 to Marie Newman ASAP so that she can expose Dan Lipinski’s conservative voting record.