Colorado: Nrcc

From the Colorado Independent:
The National Republican Campaign Committee (NRCC) is finally putting its money where its mouth has been. A round of radio ads targeting 30 Democrats in conservative or swing districts began airing Friday - among the targets were freshman Rep. Betsy Markey and third-term Rep. John Salazar of Colorado - who plan to vote in favor of the $790 billion economic stimulus package.

The 60-second radio ads blast Markey and Salazar "for supporting a trillion-dollar spending bill chock full of wasteful Washington spending instead of working across the aisle to create real jobs for struggling middle-class families," according to an NRCC release.

As if that last campaign season wasn’t long enough, it looks like the next one is already well underway. The National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) launched a fusillade on Monday against 25 House Democrats who voted in favor of the $819 billion stimulus bill last week. Freshman Rep. Betsy Markey, the first Democrat to represent the 4th District in more than three decades, was the lone lawmaker to merit the NRCC’s attention in Colorado.

The stimulus bill — up for debate in the Senate this week — passed on a vote of 244-188 without the support of a single Republican. Markey, like the other four Democrats from Colorado, voted in favor of the package.

UPDATED 4:58 P.M. 10/22/2008

The National Republican Campaign Committee is canceling its advertising buy in the 4th Congressional District, records from a local television station show.

The NRCC will stop running ads for the race as of October 28. It had reserved an estimated $378,750 worth of time between then and Election Day for Denver-area broadcast TV stations, according to records from KUSA-TV.

The group will continue to run ads in support of U.S. Rep. Marilyn Musgrave (R-Fort Morgan) on local TV stations this week.

Both parties' national congressional fundraising arms will likely be muscling in the 4th Congressional District race soon, according to the Fort Collins Coloradoan.

Both the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee and the National Republican Congressional Committee have six-figure television ad buys slated to start as soon as today on Denver market broadcast stations.