Saint Paul -- Alliance for a Better Minnesota Action Fund today released the first television and online ads it will be running during the election to share Republican Tom Emmer’s abysmal record of voting against Minnesota’s economic interest, and siding with Tim Pawlenty.
The ads, which are running starting July 6 on broadcast and cable statewide, share with viewers just some of the countless ways Emmer has voted against the things that make our state great, and prosperous.
“We need a leader who will fight for us,” said Denise Cardinal, Executive Director of Alliance for a Better Minnesota Action Fund. “Voters need to know that Tom Emmer is just like Tim Pawlenty, who sides with the big corporate special interests over working families. Emmer’s record shows he’s not on our side.”
The size of the buy for this ad is more than $500,000 for television and is the first ad ABMAF plans on running this year, with others coming in the following weeks and months. ABMAF is also launching online ads statewide as well.
Alliance for a Better Minnesota Action Fund is the political arm of Alliance for a Better Minnesota and conducts state-based political independent expenditures. ABMAF is funded by progressive donors and institutions that want strong leadership for clean lakes, great schools, safe infrastructure and civil rights in Minnesota.
In less than 48 hours, thousands of pro-health care reform Minnesotans wrote over 160,000 emails to Republican legislators, and the state legislature's email system couldn't handle that many messages.
That's incredible.
Don't worry -- we're going to make sure your voice is heard. I'm going to go through our software to find all the emails that didn't make it through -- and I'm going to deliver them in person.
Thanks again for helping us tell the 68 anti-reform Republican legislators that they don't speak for Minnesotans. As someone who traveled across the state on the Obama campaign, I know how much Minnesota needs health care reform. The last thing Minnesotans need is for Republicans to succeed and return us to the status quo we've fought so hard to change.
We've already flooded their inboxes, now let's flood their Twitters. Below is a list of some of the anti-reform Republicans on Twitter, click the links to send them a message on Twitter:
Last week many Minnesotans, including myself, wrote their legislators demanding that they get back the money Tim Pawlenty and his allies took from renters during his budget slashing last summer.
Good news -- our letters are getting noticed.
I want to share with you portion of the response I got from my state Senator, Scott Dibble, who has successfuly stopped proposed cuts to the renter's credit in the past:
"It is vital that you keep talking to lawmakers, your own colleagues, friends and family about the importance of the renters' credit. We face even more daunting budget deficits in years to come, so I fully expect similar proposals to crop up before the legislature in the future. It is only the strong activism of people like yourself that has allowed us to turn them back."
If we don't make our voice heard loud and clear during this session, we may not be able to get back the money Gov. Pawlenty and his allies took last summer.
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