•Conservative ad blitz targets Rep. Bill Owens on eve of debt limit vote

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Source: Syracuse Post Standard

Washington -- U.S. Rep. Bill Owens became a national target of conservative Republicans on Monday as the House prepared to vote on a bill backed by tea party supporters to solve the debt-limit crisis.

Crossroads GPS, a Washington, D.C. group formed with the help of former George W. Bush adviser Karl Rove, said it will spend $1.4 million in television ads over the next two weeks in 10 House districts occupied by Democrats.

The group said it will spend $141,511 on TV commercials in the Syracuse, Watertown and Burlington, Vt. (Plattsburgh) media markets that cover the 23rd Congressional District.

Such six-figure spending over a two-week period is unusual for a non-election year in Congress. The spending on the local TV commercials will top the entire quarterly fundraising totals of many House members.


Read more: http://www.syracuse.com/news/index.ssf/2011/07/conservative_ad_blitz_targets.html

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I smell Koch

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1. Rove is smuggling a few kilos across the border

Lots of Kochaine heading up from Alabama to Watertown, NY