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The right-wing Club for Growth is out with a new TV ad in New Mexico attacking Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Tom Udall and urging him to support increased domestic drilling.
Here’s the 30-second ad:
The ad chastises Udall for having voted against offshore drilling while also voting “for more government power to take private property” and “to keep the Death Tax,” according to a news release from the group.
“For Tom Udall, if it’s private property, he thinks the government should take it; if someone dies, Tom Udall thinks the government should tax it; but if it’s American oil, he thinks the government should leave it in the ground,” the news release states. It’s a line that’s similar to one used in the TV ad.
The group is spending $150,000 to run the ad for two weeks.
The ad doesn’t mention Udall’s election battle or his opponent, Republican Steve Pearce, but instead urges Udall to support a House bill to repeal provisions against offshore drilling.
The group endorsed Pearce in the primary and spent $200,000 on an ad attacking his opponent Heather Wilson as a spendthrift liberal.
