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Crossroads up with new TV spot attacking McCaskill

This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon, Nov. 10, 2011 - Crossroads GPS (Grassroots Policy Strategies), an independent group with ties to Republican consultant Karl Rove, has begun running a new TV ad today in Missouri that attacks U.S. Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo.

A spokesman said the group is spending $283,600 to air the ad for two weeks in the state's three largest cities -- St. Louis, Kansas City and Springfield -- as well as on stations in Columbia and Jefferson City.

The ad targets what Crossroads calls the senator's "support of President Obama's wasteful stimulus spending."

"President Obama and Claire McCaskill keep pushing tax increases and more wasteful spending instead of dealing seriously with the economic and financial problems our country faces," said Nate Hodson, Crossroads GPS director of state and regional media relations. "This issue ad is designed to alert citizens to the big-government views of Claire McCaskill that have failed to create jobs and turn up the heat for legislative solutions that help Missouri's job creators instead of Washington bureaucrats."

The ad is part of a $1.8 million blitz launched today in five states. Besides Missouri, the others are Montana, Nebraska, Massachusetts and Virginia -- all states with competitive U.S. Senate contests.

Earlier this week, the spokesman said Crossroads GPS "announced $2.6 million in new advertising in Colorado, Florida, North Carolina, Ohio, and Pennsylvania, opposing President Barack Obama's proposed tax increases on job creators, small businesses, school and road repair funds and home mortgages."