The campaign arm of House Democrats is planning to air radio advertisements critical of six Republicans who opposed President Obama's economic recovery law.
The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC), which is defending the party's House majority in the 2010 midterm elections, said Thursday that it will run the ads next week in the districts of Michael N. Castle of Delaware; Ken Calvert of California; C.W. Bill Young of Florida; Thaddeus McCotter of Michigan; Charlie Dent of Pennsylvania; and Michael McCaul of Texas.
The ad says that the Republican members, in opposing the stimulus law, "voted against tax breaks" to assist struggling families. No House Republican voted for the stimulus package, which GOP lawmakers generally said spent too much money. Castle said the measure had "too much unrelated, unfocused spending."
Castle, a moderate who is popular in his Obama-voting state, is weighing whether to seek re-election, retire or run for the Senate.
Calvert was narrowly re-elected last year in a southern California-based district that Obama also won.
Young, the longest-serving House Republican, has never faced a close race in his St. Petersburg-area district. Democrats would have a decent chance at winning his 10th District if the 78-year-old congressman chooses to retire.
McCotter has usually faced weak Democratic opposition, even though his 11th District west and north of Detroit is politically competitive. In 2008, when Obama dominated the vote in Michigan, McCotter won by 6 percentage points against an underfunded Democrat.
Dent, who represents Allentown and Bethlehem in Pennsylvania's Lehigh Valley, is one of just six House Republicans whose districts voted for Obama last year and for John Kerry in 2004. Yet Dent has won all three of his terms by convincing margins.
McCaul, who represents part of Democratic-leaning Austin and some very Republican-leaning suburbs of Houston, won a third term last year by 11 percentage points. Democratic businessman Jack McDonald announced Wednesday that he has raised more than $300,000 for a likely 2010 campaign.
The new radio ads comprise the fourth round of a media effort the DCCC calls its "Families First Ad Campaign."
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