Pro-Bush super PAC spending $10M-plus on initial TV campaign

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Source: AP




Associated Press 12:20 p.m. CDT August 16, 2015



Governor of Florida, Jeb Bush answers questions from Bruce Rastetter during the Iowa Ag Summit on Saturday, March 7, 2015 on the Iowa State Fair Grounds. Kelsey Kremer/The Register



The powerfully funded super PAC backing Republican Jeb Bush will spend at least $10 million on television time in the earliest voting presidential primary states, the first salvo in a massive TV ad campaign to support the former Florida governor's bid for the Republican nomination.



Officials with Right to Rise USA say they will buy time in Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina TV markets and on cable television in the three states. Ads are scheduled to begin in Iowa and New Hampshire on Sept. 15, in South Carolina a week later and then run continuously through the end of the year.

The plan, shared by the group with The Associated Press prior to Monday's buy, is the first evidence of Right to Rise USA's major strategic spending of the roughly $100 million it had on hand last month. It's also the first major move by the group, which was developed by Bush and longtime advisers including California ad maker Mike Murphy, to run alongside Bush's own campaign organization, which is bound by federal fundraising limits.

"We believe Jeb Bush has the strongest record of conservative accomplishments in the race, and we plan to tell that story," Paul Lindsay, communication director for Right to Rise USA, told the AP.........................

Read more: http://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/elections/presidential/caucus/2015/08/16/pro-bush-super-pac-spending-10m-plus-initial-tv-campaign/31814857/

[Botany]

1. Polish up that turd Jeb

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

2. While Trump gets on the TV for free

Trump has spent just a little above $1 million according to the New York Times, almost less than any other candidate so far, to be well ahead. If Jeb doesn't see any shift in the polls after pouring out lots of cash I wonder if he will stay in the race. Trump would have a field day talking about his poor showing for his large investment.

[NowSam]

3. Glad I dumped cable

TV is a dying medium. Let him spend millions on it. Bernie has already won the internet.

[SoapBox]

4. Please! Spend away.

It'll be lies, lies, lies.

And the "over it!" American voters can now smell the bullshit.

[Wisc Progressive]

5. Remember, Scott Walker's PAC dumped $7 million in Iowa early in August

And what did that "investment" do for him? He tumbled from first-to-third place, though some credit here has to be given to his general dumbness and poor debate peformance.. The media is not talking about Walker's Iowa buy though.

[jomin41]

6. That's a lotta lipstick. nt