DCCC Ads Target Republicans Who Backed Paul Ryan's 'Robin Hood In Reverse' Budget

Dems Look To Sink GOPers By Linking Them To 'Radical' Paul Ryan

The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee on Monday released the first of 17 online ads attacking congressional Republicans for their support of Rep. Paul Ryan's (R-Wis.) budget plan.

A video uploaded to the DCCC's YouTube page targets Rep. David Valadao (R-Calif.), calling out the congressman for voting in favor of Ryan's latest budget. Using TV news clips and newspaper headlines, it depicts the "radical" Ryan budget as "Robin Hood in reverse," as economist Jared Bernstein proclaims in one of the snippets from MSNBC.

The ad ends by stating in bold letters, "Congressman Valadao & The Radical Republican Budget: Help the rich get richer. Soak the middle class & seniors."

Ryan's budget was passed by the House last month largely along party lines, by a vote of 227-207. Zero Democrats voted for the proposal and only 10 Republicans voted against it. It was soundly defeated in the Senate only a few days later.

While Ryan claimed his measure would balance the budget in only 10 years, the proposal was panned by Democrats for cutting billions from Medicare in order to create a voucher program and repealing Obamacare. Ryan's plan would have meanwhile kept the tax increases and Medicare cuts from the health care law intact.

The ads target GOP members of Congress who the DCCC believes will be vulnerable in 2014. According to The Hill, the campaign will target GOP Reps. Tim Griffin and Tom Cotton (Ark.), Gary Miller and Valadao (Calif.), Mike Coffman (Colo.), Larry Bucshon (Ind.), John Kline and Erik Paulsen (Minn.), Lee Terry (Neb.), Jon Runyan (N.J.), Michael Grimm and Tom Reed (N.Y.), David Joyce and Jim Renacci (Ohio), Mike Fitzpatrick (Pa.), Scott Rigell (Va.) and Jaime Herrera Beutler (Wash.).

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