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Americas PAC has just released a new radio ad running across Illinois highlighting the wage gap between men and women working on Dick Durbin’s Senate staff.
Americas PAC Chairman Tom Donelson said, “Dick Durbin likes to talk about the Republican war on women, but how can he talk of a war on women when he doesn’t even pay his female staffers the same as the men?”
Analysis of Senate Staff payroll by the Washington Free Beacon found that in 2012 Durbin “paid men $13,063 more, a difference of 23 percent.”
“The average female on his staff was paid about 77 cents for every dollar earned by his male staffers,” Donelson said.
In 2014, after two years of supposedly championing equal pay for women, a follow-up report by the Free Beacon found that “The average female salary is $11,505 lower than the average male salary in Durbin’s office.”
President Obama’s White House has a wage gap problem as well.
“The hypocrisy is stunning,” said Donelson. “I am eager to hear Durbin’s explanation of why his female staffers are paid less than male staffers.”
Since 1963 the Equal Pay Act has made it illegal to pay men and women with the same experience differently for equal work. The new legislation pushed by Democrats, known as the Paycheck Fairness Act, does not change the premise of that long-standing law, but just makes it easier for trial lawyers earn money from class action lawsuits.
“Dick Durbin’s crony capitalism and hypocrisy are on full display,” Donelson said. “He wants to pass legislation that his own office could be sued for violating, except the legislation conveniently exempts the government.”
The key provisions of the proposed act would not apply to the Federal Government.
“This isn’t about equal pay. This is about paying off trial lawyers,” Donelson said. “Simply put, Dick Durbin and the Democrats are hypocritically pretending to be champions of equal pay so they can line the pockets of trial lawyers who donate to their campaigns.”
Americas PAC, through its issue advocacy and Federal Independent Expenditure Only committees, has placed 47,000 radio ads so far this this election cycle.
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Steve Russell came from behind to finish first in the Republican Primary for Oklahoma’s fifth Congressional District with 26.6% of the vote to advance to the runoff.
In early polling by Sooner Poll for Channel 9 in Oklahoma City, Steve Russell was in 4th with only 7.4% of the vote in a poll concluded May 10th.
Americas PAC made its commitment to support Steve Russell public on April 17th and began a full radio campaign in Oklahoma City on May 5th.
By June 21st Steve Russell had moved into second place with 18.9%.
On election day, Steve Russell had 26.6% of the vote.
“Americas PAC never wavered in our commitment to support Steve Russell,” said Americas PAC chairman Tom Donelson. “In April I said ‘We don’t check to see which the way the wind is blowing in an election. We work to make the wind blow the way of the best candidate,’ and we helped make the weather for a Russell Victory.”
Campaign finance reports show that Steve Russell was outspent by two of his competitors, Mike Turner and Patrice Douglas. Turner who spent $643,000—nearly all of it his own money—finished fourth. Turner was also aided by $135,000 from a Super PAC funded by his family. Douglas spent $558,874.
Russell raised $189,026. The additional advertising by Americas PAC put net expenditures in support of Russell slightly ahead of the $249,255 raised by Clark Jolley who placed third.
“We knew from the start that Steve Russell’s proven track record of leadership would overcome the financial disadvantage,” Donelson said. “The people of Oklahoma obviously agree that in these times of international uncertainty, we need the proven leadership of Steve Russell in Congress.”
Americas PAC is a Federal, non-connected independent expenditure only committee active in elections across the US and specializes in crafting radio advertising messages and campaigns proven to convert voters.
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Americas PAC began running its second radio ad in support of Steve Russell.
Titled “Leading From The Front” the ad runs seconds. The audio of Steve was Russell was taken from a candidate forum at First Baptist Church of Edmond and 2007 speech at the Heritage Foundation.
The ad can be played by clicking below.
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Americas PAC began airing its first radio ad in support of Steve Russell in the Oklahoma City market.
Titled “New Mission” the ad runs sixty seconds. The audio of Steve Russell was taken from a 2012 speech he gave to the Republican Leadership Conference.
The ad can be played by clicking below.
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Americas PAC has just completed a $310,000 radio ad buy opposing Dick Durbin’s reelection to the US Senate. The ads will begin running in late April.
“I fully anticipate Americas PAC, and myself personally, to be attacked by the full force of the Federal Government and given the full Al Salvi/Tea Party treatment,” Chairman of Americas PAC Tom Donelson said. “I expect to be audited by the IRS, to have my tax returns leaked to the media, to be investigated by multiple government agencies and be raided late at night.”
Donelson was referring to the letter Senator Dick Durbin sent to the IRS asking the agency to investigate a particular conservative group and the comments made by Mr. Salvi about his US Senate campaign against Durbin in 1996.
“I should probably just turn over my passport to a judge now,” Donelson continued.
The state-wide radio advertising campaign by Americas PAC will highlight many of Durbin’s shortcomings and liabilities including, but not limited to, the pay discrepancy between women and men on his US Senate Staff, his worthless guarantee that people could keep their health insurance plan under the Affordable Care Act and his desire to bring back pork spending.
“Durbin is only polling around 50%. That is a pretty weak number for a member of leadership who has not faced a strong campaign in nearly two decades,” Donelson said. “Rather than sit on the sidelines and see what happens, Americas PAC is proactively framing the debate about Durbin.”