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<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">see rep for earlier</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></div><div><div><span style="line-height: 30px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">---</font></span></div><div><span style="line-height: 30px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">816</font></span></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span style="line-height: 30px;">http://www.opensecrets.org/news/2016/08/outside-groups-dominating-senate-contests-this-cycle-report-finds/</span></font></div><div><p style="padding: 5px 0px; margin: 5px 0px; line-height: 24px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Outside groups have aired almost half of all political ads for Senate races this election cycle, an all-time high at 49 percent. Entities not associated with campaigns – such as PACs, super PACs and political nonprofits – are especially dominating the competitive contests, sponsoring more than 80 percent of ads in Ohio, Pennsylvania and New Hampshire, according <a href="http://mediaproject.wesleyan.edu/releases/aug-2016/" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">to an analysis released Wednesday</a> by the<a href="http://mediaproject.wesleyan.edu/" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Wesleyan Media Project</a> and the <a href="http://www.opensecrets.org/" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Center for Responsive Politics</a>.</font></p><p style="padding: 5px 0px; margin: 5px 0px; line-height: 24px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“With the presidential election garnering so much of the media and the public’s attention, the real ad fight is in down-ballot races,” said Sheila Krumholz, executive director of the Center for Responsive Politics. “And what we’re seeing there, especially in Senate contests, is that dark money groups are buying tens of thousands of ads – and they’re doing so without any donor disclosure and, often, without even reporting their spending to the FEC.”...</font></p></div><div><span style="line-height: 30px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></span></div></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font><div><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style=" line-height: 18.2px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">And McGinty isn’t their only target. The Koch group Freedom Partners Action Fund has spent $24 million so far trying to protect the climate-denying majority in the Senate. They’re making huge investments against Ted Strickland in Ohio and Catherine Cortez Masto in Nevada, as well. And their friends at the</span><span style=" line-height: 18.2px;"><span style=" background-color: #FFF200;"> U.S. Chamber of Commerce have spent hundreds of thousands to “greenwash” Senator Mark Kirk’s record in his campaign against climate champion and veteran Tammy Duckworth in Illinois. 8/16</span></span></font></p></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font><div><p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px 20px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 22px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: rgb(250, 250, 250);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><culink class="culinks" culang="en" href="http://curiyo.com/en/topic/Freedom Partners" title="" style="border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dashed; cursor: help; z-index: 9000; display: inline !important; float: none !important; padding: 0px !important; margin: 0px !important; border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 151, 247) !important;">Freedom Partners Action Fund</culink>, a group at the center of <culink class="culinks" culang="en" href="http://curiyo.com/en/topic/Charles Koch" title="" style="border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dashed; cursor: help; z-index: 9000; display: inline !important; float: none !important; padding: 0px !important; margin: 0px !important; border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 151, 247) !important;">Charles Koch</culink>'s conservative political network, unleashed its first political ad of the 2016 campaign Wednesday, launching a $2 million campaign in Ohio's closely watched Senate race.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px 20px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 22px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: rgb(250, 250, 250);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The ad targets Democrat <culink class="culinks" culang="en" href="http://curiyo.com/en/topic/Ted Strickland" title="" style="border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dashed; cursor: help; z-index: 9000; display: inline !important; float: none !important; padding: 0px !important; margin: 0px !important; border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 151, 247) !important;">Ted Strickland</culink>, Ohio's former governor who formally captured his party's nomination Tuesday night. The 30-second commercial features a man identified only as "Joel," a former employee of the international shipping giant DHL, which closed its hub in <culink class="culinks" culang="en" href="http://curiyo.com/en/topic/Wilmington, Ohio" title="" style="border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dashed; cursor: help; z-index: 9000; display: inline !important; float: none !important; padding: 0px !important; margin: 0px !important; border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 151, 247) !important;">Wilmington, Ohio</culink>, during Strickland's tenure as the state's chief executive.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px 20px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 22px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: rgb(250, 250, 250);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"When he should have been in there fighting, we lost 400,000 jobs in the state of Ohio," Joel says in the ad. "His track record is not there. There's no reason to go back to Ted Strickland."</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px 20px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 22px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: rgb(250, 250, 250);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The ad argues that Strickland's policies created an environment that encouraged employers to move jobs to other states with more business-friendly tax policies.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px 20px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 22px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: rgb(250, 250, 250);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Strickland is seeking to oust a Republican incumbent, Ohio <culink class="culinks" culang="en" href="http://curiyo.com/en/topic/Rob Portman" title="" style="border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dashed; cursor: help; z-index: 9000; display: inline !important; float: none !important; padding: 0px !important; margin: 0px !important; border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 151, 247) !important;">Sen. Rob Portman</culink>.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px 20px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 22px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: rgb(250, 250, 250);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Strickland spokesman <culink class="culinks" culang="en" href="http://curiyo.com/en/topic/David Bergstein" title="" style="border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dashed; cursor: help; z-index: 9000; display: inline !important; float: none !important; padding: 0px !important; margin: 0px !important; border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 151, 247) !important;">David Bergstein</culink> defended his boss' record. "Washington power brokers and wealthy, shadowy special interests are spending millions to prop up Sen. Rob Portman because he’s pushing their agenda at the expense of Ohio’s working families," he said in a statement.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px 20px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 22px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: rgb(250, 250, 250);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The new ad is a sign the Koch network is gearing up to play a big role in federal races, even as its leaders insist they are not trying to shape the <culink class="culinks" culang="en" href="http://curiyo.com/en/topic/Republican Party presidential primaries" title="" style="border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dashed; cursor: help; z-index: 9000; display: inline !important; float: none !important; padding: 0px !important; margin: 0px !important; border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 151, 247) !important;">Republican presidential primary</culink>dominated by billionaire Donald Trump, who notched five wins Tuesday night. Earlier this month, a Koch-affiliated group, Concerned Veterans for America, began a $700,000 ad campaign in Nevada that featured military veterans voicing support for Rep. <culink class="culinks" culang="en" href="http://curiyo.com/en/topic/Joe Heck" title="" style="border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dashed; cursor: help; z-index: 9000; display: inline !important; float: none !important; padding: 0px !important; margin: 0px !important; border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 151, 247) !important;">Joe Heck</culink>, the Republican hoping to fill Senate Minority Leader <culink class="culinks" culang="en" href="http://curiyo.com/en/topic/Harry Reid" title="" style="border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dashed; cursor: help; z-index: 9000; display: inline !important; float: none !important; padding: 0px !important; margin: 0px !important; border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 151, 247) !important;">Harry Reid</culink>'s seat when the Democrat retires this year.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px 20px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 22px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: rgb(250, 250, 250);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Republicans face a challenging election season as they fight to retain their majority in the U.S. Senate and defend GOP-held seats in seven states, including Ohio, that <culink class="culinks" culang="en" href="http://curiyo.com/en/topic/Barack Obama" title="" style="border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dashed; cursor: help; z-index: 9000; display: inline !important; float: none !important; padding: 0px !important; margin: 0px !important; border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 151, 247) !important;">President Obama</culink> won both in 2008 and 2012.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px 20px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 22px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); background-color: rgb(250, 250, 250);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Party insiders have begun to openly fret that a Trump nomination will endanger other down-ballot contests on Election Day.</font></p></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">lead law</font><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">http://www.fed-soc.org/publications/detail/the-rise-and-fall-of-lead-paint-litigation-in-ohio</font></div></div></div></div>