Super PAC Launches 'Real Scott Brown' Website

Update, 12:49 p.m. Jack Kimball, Smith's campaign manager, issued the following statement about Dennehy's comments regarding the former Senator dropping out the race and backing Rubens: 

"Mr. Dennehy's comment regarding it being better if Bob Smith dropped out of the race are clearly contrived as he now knows that the conservative base is united behind Senator Smith as he is the only constitutional conservative in the race for the U S Senate. Further, the recent CNHT straw poll had Senator Smith beating Jim Rubens by a two to one margin and the just released quarterly FEC report is equally as dismal for Jim Rubens. Senator Smith raised over $200,000 for the quarter while Jim Rubens raised only $25,000. The Smith Campaign is becoming an unstoppable tsunami assisted by a heavy breeze coming from Virginia."

The original post is below:

The New Hampshire PAC to Save America, a Super PAC supporting former state Sen. Jim Rubens’ campaign for U.S. Senate, has launched a new website to challenge former U.S. Sen. Scott Brown’s three-year voting record in Washington.

The site launched on July 8, with Mike Dennehy of Dennehy and Bouley, a representative of the group, walking reporters through the PAC’s strategy to educate Republican voters before the Sept. 9, primary.

Dennehy said the website showed that Brown was being hypocritical in his attacks against incumbent Democratic U.S. Sen. Shaheen for voting with President Barack Obama 99 percent of the time since Brown himself has voted with the president 61 to 78 percent of the time while in office. He added that Brown also supported the RomneyCare plan in Massachusetts, which eventually led to the approval of the Affordable Care Act, without a single Republican vote. At the same time, Brown voted against his own party while trying to win that party’s nomination here in the Granite State.

“(Brown) only voted with the Republican Party 48 percent of the time,” Dennehy said. “The question is, ‘What is the acceptable percentage for him to vote with President Obama?’ I (also) think the question Republican voters will need to ask is, ‘Do Republicans want a nominee that votes more with President Obama than votes with the Republican Party?’”

The website also highlights Brown’s changes in political positions on guns, votes he made for wasteful government spending and higher taxes, and his 2012 effort to woo Obama voters in his failed Massachusetts re-election campaign.

Dennehy wouldn’t disclose how much the Super PAC would be spending on the effort but said the group planned “a substantive advertising campaign.” He said it would be less than the millions of dollars being thrown around in the Senate race, so far. Dennehy added that the PAC would be starting with a digital effort and then direct mail, while leaving “all options open … it won’t be just one medium.”

The point of the website and the effort, he added, was to point out that Brown wasn’t being honest about his own record and that voters in the state deserved honesty and transparency.

“We want to make sure that Republican voters go to the polls, as educated on Scott Brown’s record, as much as possible,” Dennehy said, “and make an informed decision … (if they vote for Brown) they will at least know who they are voting for.”

Dennehy said that he didn’t think the strategy would alienate undeclared voters taking a GOP ballot in September who might want a bit of bipartisanship in Washington. He said that the GOP primary would be “a Republican primary.” Dennehy also stated that he didn't think former U.S. Sen. Bob Smith would drop out of the race and throw his support to Rubens. 

According to Open Secrets, the Super PAC has spent about $41,000 so far in 2014. 

David Mason, a former Federal Election Commission chairman, who now works with the political firm, Aristotle, formed the org earlier this year, according to the Center for Public Integrity.

Brown’s campaign was emailed for comment just before post time.

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