I haven’t heard this radio spot yet, but apparently the conservative group Common Sense Issues, out of Ohio, is airing advertisements pressuring Montana Sens. Max Baucus and Jon Tester to defund ACORN. The liberal group has been under fire for several months after employees there advised two activists, working undercover, how to launch a prostitution business.
According to Lee Newspapers’ Charles Johnson, both Tester and Baucus have voted to defund ACORN in the past, but Common Sense Issues alleges that they voted to block funding for just a “few months.” From Johnson’s story:
Steve Daines, a Bozeman businessman who ran as a Republican for lieutenant governor last year, recorded the messages in the ads and poll.
In the radio ad, Daines says: “I’m a fifth-generation Montanan, and like you, I’m very concerned by what Max Baucus and Jon Tester are doing in Washington. Congressional spending is out of control, but when a common-sense idea comes along — like defunding ACORN permanently — Baucus and Tester only voted to block that funding for a ‘few months.’
Common Sense Issues is also conducting robo-calls.