NRCC Running New Ad In South Carolina Against ‘Nancy Pelosi’s Budget Chairman’ John Spratt (VIDEO)

Rep. John M. Spratt, Jr. (D-SC)
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The National Republican Congressional Committee has a new against Rep. John Spratt (D-SC), one of the senior House Democrats they are targeting this year.

“Spratt is Nancy Pelosi’s budget chairman. And the Spratt budget has a trillion-dollar deficit,” the announcer says. “And Spratt’s the architect of legislation Democrats may use to ram through a government takeover of health care. Call John Spratt. Tell him to represent South Carolina — and not Nancy Pelosi.”

Spratt was first elected in 1982, and has had many easy re-elections. However, his district voted for John McCain by 53%-46%, and voted twice for George W. Bush by greater margins than that. Republicans hope to tie him to national Democratic figures like Speaker Nancy Pelosi and President Obama, in order to toss him out of his Southern district.

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