The National Republican Senatorial Committee paid for an ad that attacks the Republican budget in Congress last month — and appears to have spent quite a lot doing it.
At the time, NRSC officials did not comment on the commercial run by the Montana Republican Party on behalf of Rep. Denny Rehberg, who is challenging Democratic Sen. Jon Tester.
The spot, with an initial cost of $200,000, could only have been funded by large transfers from the NRSC, since the the Montana GOP did not have enough cash on its own. The latest federal campaign filings show that the national team transferred $540,000 to the local party — $315,000 on June 19, the day before the ad started to run, then $45,000 on June 21 and $180,000 on June 25.
Here’s the actual ad:
And how many times did Republicans tell us that the Paul Ryan budget was the fix all?