Indigo Journal

PAC targets Wilson in new ads

Posted on 17. Sep, 2009 by Tim Kelly in SC Politics

Stand Up America PAC, which intends to target right-wing Republican demagogues in the United States Congress, has released it’s first campaign ad attacking Rep. Joe Wilson of South Carolina for his shameful “You Lie” outburst during the President’s address to a Joint Session of Congress last week.

“Joe Wilson’s disrespectful and shameful behavior last week is a perfect example of the Republican demagoguery that has infected the Congress,” said Aaron Ament, a co-founder of Stand Up America PAC.

“Instead of working to improve health care in America, Joe Wilson has indulged in red-faced, spittle-laced tirades. It’s time we rid the Congress of people like Joe Wilson – and that is just what Stand Up America PAC intends to do,” said Ament.

Stand Up America PAC has also announced that they intend to target for defeat the following Representatives: Michelle Bachmann (MN-6), John Campbell (CA-48), Eric Cantor (VA-7), Jean Schmidt (OH-2) and Joe Wilson (SC-2). Stand Up America PAC will conduct independent political campaigns aimed at these Republicans, as well as contributing funds to their Democratic challengers.

“In recent years our national discourse has become polluted with right-wing Republican provocateurs whose goal is not to move our country forward, but to demean and intimidate their political opponents.”

“We intend to stand up to these demagogues – and we intend to defeat them,” concluded Ament.

The Stand Up America campaign team will include Ament, who worked on the presidential campaign of Wesley Clark and the House Judiciary Committee, as well as Jesse Berney from Hillary Clinton’s 2008 presidential online team.

Mark Longabaugh and Neil Kammerman of Wild Bunch Media will also advise Stand Up America PAC as consultants. Longabaugh and Kammerman were the key architects of the Independent campaign expenditures campaigns that helped defeat Republican zealots Richard Pombo in California in 2006 and Marylyn Musgrave in Colorado in 2008.