Democrat Alison Lundergan Grimes attacked Republican Mitch McConnell for skipping committee meetings in a new TV ad released Friday.
“He only showed up seven percent of the time,” a narrator says. “If you did that, you’d get fired. So should he.”
A McConnell campaign spokeswoman didn’t contest the “seven percent” figure but said the ad demonstrates Grimes’ “profound lack of knowledge” about the office she’s seeking.
“Mitch McConnell appointed the conferees who negotiated the farm bill, secured the inclusion of the hemp provision for Kentucky, and assured the bill’s passage while Alison Grimes was trying to figure out how to get her dad to pay for her campaign bus,” said Allison Moore, a McConnell spokeswoman.
Grimes trails the Senate minority leader by 4.8 percentage points, according to the TPM PollTracker average.
Watch the ad below.
This article has been updated to include the McConnell campaign’s response.
That’s dumb. He’s the Minority Leader. He’s got leadership stuff to do. Reid and Pelosi don’t spend much time at committee meetings, either.
Go get em ALG!!!
Two points here: Maybe, but 7%? That’s not nearly enough to even keep a handle on what’s happening in those meetings. If he can’t attend, he is allowed to give up the spot to someone who can.
Also, this is just another situation where he’s clearly doing absolutely nothing.
Lundergan Grimes is smart to spotlight McConnell’s lack of interest in his job.
Any Senator—especially one in a leadership position—who attends only 7% of his committee meetings is a prime target for this kind of ridicule.
Nice ad. Not a homerun, but a nice ad.
I love what she is doing. Mitch is anything but beloved in Kentucky. Mitch’s pitch has been he might not be loved, but he is an effective senator. Focusing on his job performance really hits at a big reason people would vote for Mitch.