Conservative Group Crossroads GPS Launches Ad Blitz Against House Dems

Radio ads criticizing 12 House Democrats for their votes against a GOP bill to fund the government for the remainder of the fiscal year hit the airwaves this week, paid for by the independent conservative group Crossroads GPS.

The spots, costing $450,000, also praise 10 Republicans for voting for the legislation.

The bill, which passed over the weekend largely along party lines, trims nearly $61 billion in federal funding from March to October.

The ads slam the Democrats for voting to "continue the failed spending policies" of the White House and former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.

"They just don't get it," the narrator intones.

"The new Congress was elected to deal with the fiscal mess left by the Pelosi-Obama spending spree over the past two years," Steven Law, director of Crossroads GPS, said in a statement Tuesday. "One of our top priorities this year is to use educational spots to frame the issue debate for congressional action on reining in spending, blocking job-killing regulations and dismantling ObamaCare, and we identified the President's Day recess as a key inflection point in the national debate."

The Democrats targeted by the ads are Reps. Leonard Boswell (Iowa), Jim Costa (California), Joe Donnelly (Ind.), Ben Chandler (Ky.), Tim Walz (Minn.), Martin Heinrich (N.M.), Tim Bishop (N.Y.), Bill Owens (N.Y.), Mark Critz (Pa.), Jim Matheson (Utah), Mike Michaud (Maine) and Rick Larsen (Wash.).

The Republicans getting a "job well done" ad from Crossroads are Reps. Bob Dold (Ill.), Chip Cravaack (Minn.), Jon Runyan (N.J.), Robert Hurt (Va.), Sean Duffy (Wis.), David McKinley (W.Va.), Quico Canseco (Texas), Jamie Herrera Beutler (Wash.), Lou Barletta (Pa.) and Frank Guinta (N.H.)

Crossroads GPS and its related group, American Crossroads, which count Karl Rove among their founders, raised $71 million for the 2010 election and are expected to spend heavily again in the current election cycle.

Listen to the ad targeting Costa:



Listen to the rest of the spots at the Crossroads website.