PA-Sen: Chamber of Commerce Launches Anti-McGinty TV Ads (VIDEOS)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VzMAw0MWrTs
If Katie McGinty hears you use the word energy, she’ll hop in her car, have her driver jet over to the playground and try to catch little Jimmy so she can tax him.
That’s apparently the message of the latest Chamber of Commerce commercial.
The thirty-second spot, titled “Run Jimmy”, focuses on McGinty’s energy record. It mentions a 1993 plan from the Clinton Administration to tax carbon that passed the House but stalled in the Senate. In 2009, the Obama Administration’s cap and trade plan met the same fate. McGinty supported both proposals.
This is the second ad that the Chamber has run in support of Republican Senator Pat Toomey.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQoAwMs49FQ
Earlier this month they unveiled another commercial, titled “Cheesesteaks”, that portrayed a focus group. You can tell because there’s a pad in the back with the words “Focus Group” on them.
The man running the focus group presents participants with one good item and one terrible item, concluding with Pat Toomey and Katie McGinty (the ad’s portrayal of a cheesesteak arguably overshadowed the rest of the spot).
The respondents all pick Toomey, with one man writing down his name then putting a check mark underneath it on a notepad to signify his choice.
U.S. Chamber Action is (likely to the great relief of the Toomey team) not associated with any campaign.