Blunt camp slams radio ad on donations from insurance industry
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A spokesman for U.S. Rep. Roy Blunt said today an ad targeting his political contributions from the insurance company is “hypocritical and false.”
The radio spot, released today and running on four stations in Blunt’s Southwest Missouri district, criticizes Blunt for accepting more than $500,000 in contributions from the insurance industry.
Blunt, a Republican, is poised to battle Democrat Robin Carnahan for a U.S. Senate seat next year. Today’s ad doesn’t mention Carnahan; it was paid for Missouri Progressive Vote Coalition, a liberal political action organization.
In a statement sent to reporters this afternoon, Blunt spokesman Rich Chrismer accused Carnahan of taking $10,000 recently from Washington lobbyists.
“Roy Blunt does not accept a penny from anyone who expects anything for it,” Chrismer said.
McCaskill got an extension on her tax returns, are you going to keep on top of her releasing them in August when they are due?
Instead of electing Roy Blunt to the Senate I think he’d be better suited to a full time position looking for Barack Obama’s birth certificate. It is the really serious issues like that which Roy needs to continue to focus on. Leave governance to the people who really care about the people and let Roy and his son Matt (since he’s accomplished everything he set out to already) to look into serious matters of national security like Obama’s birth certificate. What a maroon!
I don’t understand the response, did he not accept $500,000 in contributions from the insurance company or does he just claim that the insurance companies don’t expect anything for their investment?
> Leave governance to the people who really care about the people
Would that be Robin Carnahan, who will vote for every spending increase Obama proposes, and make McCaskill look like a right-winger? That sort of care we can do without.
I’m sure that a lot of American companies routinely donate 500k to politicians all the time with no expectations. Oh, wait. Never mind.
Roy Blunt is corporate whore and this meaningless response from Chrismer is the only way they can respond. Facts are stubborn things and someone is keeping track.
More K Street values courtesy of Roy Blunt, the consumate Washington insider. I am pulling my Republican primary ballot for StateSenator Chuck Purgason, a true conservative who respects our Missouri values, has one wife and a clear view about shrinking the size of government.
And yet… not a word about the current Speaker taking… and keeping HERE ‘Evil money’ from the same insurance companies
http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/notepad/2009/07/speaker-will-keep-villains-mon.html
“Pelosi, of course, has accepted campaign contributions from said villains this year and in the past, as have most of her Democratic colleagues. Pelosi’s campaign committee, for example, took $2,500 from AFLAC’s political action committee on April 13. But she’s not giving the money back just because she thinks the sources are immoral and villainous.”
Mr Ave… you tilt left is showing…
Of course this aledged 500k is not from one company… it is for the whole industry. It is also for Roy Blunt’s whole career… a career in which he has raised close to 16 million.
So… about 3% of all the money for all of Blunt’s campaigns came from insurance companies.
WOW
http://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/industries.php?cycle=Career&cid=N00005195&type=I
Now… one would think that a honest and fair newspaper would have taken the 4 minutes it took me (yet just another bitter white man clinging to me Bible and guns) to look this up.
Mr Ave?
I’m with Richard; and any way you slice it, $500,000 not chump change; largest industry contributor? you think that means nothing? campaign contributions should be in blind trusts of sorts until after elections?
or can contribute anything you want as long as 1/2 goes to opponent?
or who wins determined by votes/$?
No Bill…
‘Any way you slice it,’ it comes in… 3rd on Blunt’s list.
What is it with the left and math?