Big Money Comes to State Attorney-General Races

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http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2014/05/us-chamber-targets-dems-in-state-attorney-general-races/361874/

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TV ads are targeting Nevada candidate Ross Miller even though he's running unopposed in a primary three months away. (Sandra Chereb/Associated Press)

The ads accuse Nevada Secretary of State Ross Miller, a candidate for state attorney general, of living a lavish lifestyle at the taxpayers’ expense.

Shots of Miller with Mike Tyson and Hugh Hefner’s former girlfriend flash across the screen as the narrator highlights more than $60,000 in gifts Miller has accepted from “special interests” since taking office in 2006.

“He lives the life,” the narrator says. “You pay the tab.”

The $500,000 ad campaign is being paid for by a nonprofit from Virginia called the State Government Leadership Foundation. It’s an impressive sum, especially considering the ads ran three months before a primary in which Miller is running unopposed, and for an office that doesn’t normally get so much attention. Miller’s campaign called on TV stations to pull the ads, challenging them as misleading.

[djean111]

1. it is ALL for sale - and in some cases, already bought and paid for.

[Erich Bloodaxe BSN]

2. Waitasec - if special interests are giving him all sorts of money

than how are 'you' (the taxpayer) picking up the tab? Sounds like the special interests are 'picking up the tab' to make his lifestyle more lavish.