Koch-Backed Americans For Prosperity Ads Bring Health Care Debate To Iowa, Michigan Races
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — An outside conservative group began airing advertisements Tuesday that attack two Democratic lawmakers seeking Senate seats because they voted for the 2010 health care bill and repeated President Barack Obama's now-discredited assurance that people with private health insurance could keep their coverage if they liked it.
The move marks an expansion by Americans for Prosperity, whose roughly $1.8 million in television and radio ads in Iowa and Michigan, add to the string of vulnerable Southern Democrats the billionaire Koch brothers have been trying to weaken as Republicans eye gaining control of the Senate in November's elections.
The group has spent more than $20 million on advertising since the public enrollment of the 2010 health care law began in October. Since then, millions of private policyholders have received cancellation notices and enrollment in the insurance plans offered on state and federal exchanges has run well behind original administration forecasts.
The latest ads target Democratic Reps. Bruce Braley of Iowa and Gary Peters of Michigan.
"President Obama won Michigan and Iowa twice. I think it's telling for his supposed signature accomplishment, that it's even deeply unpopular in these two states," said Tim Phillips, president of Americans for Prosperity, the conservative group founded by billionaire brothers David and Charles Koch.
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Yep, heard the first one tonight on a mid-michigan TV station...
