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Two Super PACs have spent over $700,000 to defeat a Tea Party challenger in New York’s conservative, safe-Republican 22nd Congressional District, against her liberal Republican opponent, incumbent Richard Hanna. The primary is on June 24.
The ads are “false flags” because they purport to be supporting conservative causes and the most conservative candidate in a conservative district, when in fact they are supporting the more liberal candidate.
Tenney is the more conservative candidate, by farClaudia Tenney, a Marine mom who just last year scored a 96% rating with the Conservative Party of New York State, is being portrayed in the TV ads as the less conservative candidate in the race to Hanna, a Congressman ranked by the National Journal as the 3rd most liberal GOP congressman.
In fact, Hanna was one of only a pair of Republicans who voted against delaying Obamacare, was the lone one to oppose banning federal payments for abortion, and told members of a pro-abortion rally to give their money to Democrats. During the 2012 campaign, Hanna referred to Tea Party elements in the Republican Party as being extremists, incapable of governing.
Jen Kuznicki has more background on the candidates political leanings.
That said, a group known as the American Unity PAC has spent well over half-a-million dollars solely against Tenney this election cycle. Similarly, the Patriot Prosperity PAC has spent over $100,000 to defeat Tenney.
In all, these supposedly ‘conservative’ Super PACs have spent $704,345 against Tenney.
Non-Stop TV Ads Attacking TenneyThis false flag operation came to our attention when Professor Jacobson, in neighboring NY-23 but within the same television market, began to notice almost non-stop ads attacking Tenney as not conservative enough.