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Green group hits Romney, George Allen in $1.7M homestretch ad buy
http://thehill.com/blogs/e2-wire/e2-wire/264523-green-group-hits-romney-allen-in-17m-homestretch-ad-buyThe League of Conservation Voters (LCV) hopes to tip Colorado in President Obama’s favor by highlighting Mitt Romney’s opposition to wind energy tax credits in the campaign’s final days.
The group is spending $850,000 to re-launch an ad in Denver media markets that features a worker who lost his job at Vestas Wind Systems, which has shed hundreds of jobs this year at manufacturing plants in the Centennial State.
“I got laid off because Mitt Romney and his friends in Congress want to eliminate tax credits for the wind industry,” says Chris Maese in the advertisement slated to run through Election Day.
The Obama campaign and allied green groups are using the wind credit to try and hurt Romney in Colorado and Iowa – swing states where the wind industry is a major employer.