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Demon Sheep Ad Guru Targets Patty Murray: She's Walking All Over Us! (VIDEO)

Evan McMorris-Santoro | July 13, 2010, 11:09AM

A new ad the American Action Network attacking Senator Patty Murray (D-WA).

Fred Davis, the GOP ad guru who brought you that John McCain "Celebrity" ad in 2008 and Carly Fiorina's internet sensation, the Demon-Sheep, is aiming his talents at new target: Sen. Patty Murray (D-WA).

Politico's Jonathan Martin reports that Phelps has created a new TV ad for the conservative American Action Network that will run statewide in Washington soon. As Martin writes, the ad -- which shows a woman walking over the backs of three people, one of them a child -- plays on Murray's political past:

The commercial, like many spots against Democratic incumbents, aims to make the case that Murray has forgotten her roots. But it's notably personalized through the use of tennis shoes, a play on Murray's 1992 mantra that she was a common-sense "mom in tennis shoes."

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Holtz-Eakin: New Right-Wing Think Tank Staffing Up, Looking For Office Space

Justin Elliott | February 5, 2010, 12:20PM

Former McCain campaign advisor Douglas Holtz-Eakin

A leader of the American Action Network says the Republican "think-and-do-tank" launching this month hopes to have a physical space in Washington very soon, and is working on fundraising and staffing up.

That's according to Doug Holtz-Eakin, the former CBO director and McCain campaign adviser who will lead the policy shop of American Action Network.

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