The Club For Growth has a new TV ad in the NY-23 special election — with the right-wing group attacking the Republican candidate Dede Scozzafava, since they’ve endorsed the Conservative Party candidate Doug Hoffman.
The ad doesn’t actually mention Hoffman, but attacks Scozzafava as being the same as Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Gov. David Paterson, and blasts Scozzafava for having backed a Paterson budget.
In a funny twist, the Club put out a press release yesterday noting the Scozzafava campaign’s response that this was not a Paterson budget, but was introduced by Eliot Spitzer. The Club points out that Paterson was the one who ultimately signed the budget, but adds: “If liberal Dede is much more comfortable embracing an Elliot Spitzer tax-and-spend budget, we’ll consider calling it that in future ads.”
