Debt ceiling

Karl Rove's Crossroads GPS Attacks Dems Over Debt

Benjy Sarlin | July 18, 2011, 10:24AM

Karl Rove

The Conservative anonymous-money giant Crossroads GPS is spending $1.4 million on ads targeting Democrats on spending, part of a $20 million summer ad blitz.

The TV spots are running in 10 districts and vary slightly from lawmaker to lawmaker, although they mostly focus on the 2009 stimulus bill and past debt limit votes. Notably, the ads do not stake out a specific position on the current debt limit fight, which is proving increasingly divisive for the party as Republicans in the House and Senate struggle to find a unified voice.

2012

Priorities USA Counters Karl Rove With New Ad

Benjy Sarlin | June 29, 2011, 10:06AM

Progressive Super-PAC Priorities USA is hitting the airwaves in five states in an effort counter ad buys from Karl Rove's anonymous-money organization, Crossroads GPS.

The ads specifically target Rove for playing "politics at its worst" and highlight the House GOP's plan to turn Medicare into a private voucher system with stingier benefits. They'll run in Iowa, North Carolina, Virginia, Florida and Colorado, all highly competitive states in 2012 that President Obama won in his first election.

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Karl Rove's Money Machine Goes Live With $20 Million Anti-Obama Campaign (VIDEO)

Evan McMorris-Santoro | June 24, 2011, 5:18PM

Crossroads GPS attack ad

The real starting gun of the 2012 presidential race may be sounding Monday, and it's coming in the form of massive attack ad campaign aimed squarely at President Obama's economic record.

Crossroads GPS, anonymous-money collecting arm of the Citzens United-inspired political machine founded by Karl Rove and other Republican heavyweights, is going live with a $20 million television ad campaign targeting the president 497 days before voters head to the polls in November 2012.

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Rove-Backed Group Alleges Union Cronyism In Health Care Waivers

Jon Terbush | May 19, 2011, 5:14PM

Crossroads Grassroots Policy Strategies, an affiliate organization to the Karl Rove backed American Crossroads PAC, is out with a new web video insinuating that the Obama administration is rewarding unions who pushed for the health care law with expeditions from that same law.

The video frames the issue somewhat like an action movie trailer, utilizing ominous music and rapid scene cuts to introduce the "union bosses" who "shoved healthcare down our throats." And it features quick shots of semi-socialist symbols, such as a Canadian flag and a red clenched fist spliced between shots of chanting union members.

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Crossroads GPS Sues Obama Admin Over Health Care Docs

Jillian Rayfield | March 23, 2011, 10:45AM

President Barack Obama

The Karl Rove-linked conservative advocacy group Crossroads GPS has filed a lawsuit against the Obama Administration over information about waivers the Department of Health and Human Services granted from the health care reform law.

Crossroads GPS is a non-profit political cash machine, founded by Rove and former RNC chair Ed Gillespie last year. It is not required to release the names of its donors.

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Both Sides Assail New Anti-Union Ad From Rove-Linked Group

Evan McMorris-Santoro | March 10, 2011, 8:35AM

The big spending group founded by Karl Rove has succeeded in uniting unions and fiscal hawks -- in criticism of the group's new TV ad.

On Wednesday, Crossroads GPS launched a nationwide TV ad attacking the relationship between unions and Democratic politicians.

By the end of the day they had succeeded in putting the National Education Association and the anti-public sector union libertarian think-tank Cato on the same page: the ad, both said, is at best a stretch and at worse untrue. Crossroads disputes the claims and stands by its commercial.

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Rove-Linked Spending Machine Takes On Unions In New TV Spot (VIDEO)

Evan McMorris-Santoro | March 9, 2011, 10:25AM

The conservative campaign spending group linked to Karl Rove is going up with a tough ad aimed at America's labor unions and the president they supported in 2008.

The short version: Unions and their political activity are "a threat to democracy."

Crossroads GPS, the non-profit political spending outfit who Rove and former RNC chair Ed Gillespie helped launch last year, is going on national cable news channels Wednesday with the 60-second spot, aimed squarely at the union leaders and Democratic politicians who have been taking on governors across the Midwest in the past few weeks.

Crossroads GPS is not required to release the names of its donors, and has been a common target of Democratic and progressive criticism since its founding.

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Rove-Backed Outside Groups Raised $14.5 Million In Last 30 Days

Eric Lach | September 20, 2010, 1:09PM

Karl Rove

American Crossroads and Crossroads GPS, outside groups backed by GOP heavy-hitters Karl Rove and Ed Gillespie, raised $14.5 million in the 30-day period ending Sunday, bringing their fundraising total this year to $32 million, according to the Associated Press.

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