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Spanish-language ad in Georgia’s special election links Ossoff to Pelosi

by Rebecca Savransky - 06/12/17 7:24 AM ET

A super PAC affiliated with Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) is launching a Spanish-language television ad attacking Georgia congressional hopeful Jon Ossoff (D) and linking him to House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.).

The Congressional Leadership Fund (CLF) is spending some of the $7 million it is putting into the special election on the ad, The Washington Post reported.

The ad is expected to air on Atlanta’s Univision and Telemundo stations.

{mosads}“Jon Ossoff is all in for Nancy Pelosi’s agenda of bigger government, higher spending and more taxes that is crushing Americans’ pocketbooks,” CLF Executive Director Corry Bliss said in a statement. “Hispanic families will hear just how liberal, out-of-touch and wholly unfit Jon Ossoff is to represent Georgia’s 6th District.”

A translation of the ad begins by saying Pelosi and liberals “borrowed $20 billion.”

“Jon Ossoff would be worse. He would vote for more taxes, more bad spending and regulations that would crush jobs,” the ad says, according to the Post. “Ossoff and Pelosi: A bigger government that we can’t allow.”

The ad goes on to tout Republican Karen Handel, Ossoff’s opponent in the race.

“The only woman from Georgia in Congress, Karen Handel would fight for working families. Supporting a balanced budget,” it says.

“Putting Georgia taxpayers first.”

A poll last week found Ossoff leading Handel by 7 points, 51 percent to 44 percent.

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