Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) has a new TV ad, set to begin airing Wednesday, blasting his Republican opponent Sharron Angle for having opposed the $20 billion BP escrow fund to compensate victims of the oil spill.
“The same Sharron Angle who wants to abolish the Department of Energy and the EPA, calls it a ‘slush fund’ when you make polluters pay,” the announcer says. “Sharron Angle, just too extreme.”
Angle hammered the escrow fund a month ago, declaring that “Government shouldn’t be doing that to a private company” and calling it a “slush fund.” She then quickly retracted the comment, bluntly stating that she was “incorrect” to call it a slush fund. But that retraction isn’t letting her off the hook as far as political attacks are concerned.
The TPM Poll Average gives Reid a lead of 45.1%-42.7%.
