WASHINGTON — A conservative super PAC has launched a $320,000 advertising campaign against U.S. Sen. Mark Pryor, D-Ark., which will run on television stations in Little Rock and Fort Smith for the next three weeks.
Senate Conservatives Action released the first of three television ads it plans to run urging voters to reject Pryor in the 2014 mid-term elections.
The ad focuses on Pryor’s voting record, claiming that it is out of step with Arkansas values. In particular, it pointed to his votes in favor of health care reform in 2009, the 2008 Wall Street bailout and the $787 billion stimulus program in 2009.
The group also noted that Pryor had voted with President Obama 95 percent of the time, according to a 2011 Congressional Quarterly study. SCA is the political arm of the Senate Conservatives Fund, a group launched by former U.S. Sen. Jim DeMint, R-S.C., who now heads the Heritage Foundation.
Pryor announced in March that he would run for a third six-year term in 2014. No Republican has announced to run for Pryor’s seat next year, though U.S. Rep. Tom Cotton, R-Dardanelle, is seen as a likely candidate to challenge the incumbent.
Independent reporting for Pine Bluff & Jefferson County since 1879.
The ad campaign is the second launched against Pryor in recent days from divergent elements of the political spectrum.
Last week, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s gun control group launched a $350,000 advertising blitz criticizing Pryor for opposing a Senate effort to strengthen background checks for gun sales.
Mayors Against Illegal Guns said its ads will run over the next two weeks on broadcast and cable stations in Arkansas urging Pryor to reconsider his vote in April in opposition to gun control.
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