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Ad takes issue with Thune
February 05, 2010 | Argus Leader, Sioux Falls
The ad also lists contributions of $98,100 Thune has received over his political career from several large oil companies, including BP, Chevron and ExxonMobil, that do business in the Middle East. Thune has raised $34.3 million for his political campaigns since he began running for office in 1989. -
February 5, 2010: Federal Clean Energy Mandate Could Create 274,000 Jobs
February 05, 2010 | Apollo Alliance Daily Digest
VoteVets‘ new ad campaign says the passage of the Clean Energy and American Power Act could help defund terrorism. -
Illinois Senate 2010: Mark Kirk Attacked In New VoteVets Ad
February 05, 2010 | Huffington Post
The group released a national ad Friday featuring an Iraq war veteran chastising Kirk for refusing to support energy independence. The veteran suggests that Kirk opposes climate-change legislation because he's received donations from oil companies operating in foreign countries. -
In Ads, Veterans Push for Energy Bill
February 05, 2010 | New York Times Blogs - The Caucus
In the advertisements — running until Feb. 21 on local television stations in Illinois, Iowa, Indiana, Kentucky, Missouri, South Dakota and Wyoming — veterans from the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq urge senators and Senate hopefuls to pass a bill as the House did in June 2009. They also call out members for receiving campaign contributions from oil companies. -
Open Thread for Night Owls, Early Birds & Expats
February 05, 2010 | Daily Kos
The ads use local veterans to press the organization's point of view in Illinois, Iowa, Indiana, Kentucky, Missouri, South Dakota and Wyoming. -
VoteVets Fights the Reps
February 05, 2010 | The Green Life, Sierra Club
VoteVets.org, America's largest group of progressive veterans, has launched a $2 million TV ad campaign airing in seven states and in Washington, D.C. to fight America’s oil dependence. The campaign is the largest ever undertaken by the group, and is a direct response to the oil industry's recent revelation that it spent $159 million in 2009 to lobby Congress against a clean-energy bill. The group says the U.S. is funding both sides of the war on terror in the Middle East, and that oil money has killed U.S. troops. -
VoteVets Push Back at Mark Kirk
February 05, 2010 | Chicagoist
In the Illinois ad an Afghanastan veteran from Chicago takes issue with Mark Kirk's policies on energy security, as well as the fact that he's taken campaign contributions from multinational energy corporations that have interests in nations that sponsor terrorism. -
VoteVets on Dylan Ratigan (Video)
February 05, 2010 | Dylan Ratigan
Iraq War Veteran Jon Soltz, Chair of VoteVets.org, appears on Dylan Ratigan to discuss his group's new ads - More News»
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