Raleigh, NC – Yesterday, Hagan sent yet another fundraising email blasting a super PAC for running television ads critiquing her record of supporting the Obamacare train wreck.
Missing from Hagan’s emails is any mention of Senate Majority PAC, a super PAC affiliated with Harry Reid that has now spent over $1 million to help her flailing campaign on the airwaves.
Harry Reid is defending Hagan because she is in hot water after deliberately misleading her constituents on at least two dozen occasions, falsely promising them they would be able to keep their health care plans under Obamacare if they liked them. Over 473,000 North Carolinians were impacted by cancellation notices, and Hagan has repeatedly refused to answer reporters’ questions about when she knew that Obamacare would result in cancellations.
It’s understandable that Hagan would be grateful for Harry Reid’s support, but Hagan has claimed she is opposed to super PACs, period.
On her website, she even has a petition calling on Congress “to reverse the effects of Citizens United.”
In a November 22, 2013 campaign email, Kay Hagan wrote about super PACs:
“Ever since Citizens United, Super PACs and out-of-touch special interests have been blanketing airwaves with attack ads. And they’re doing it in North Carolina.
At least 5 separate special interest groups have attacked us. One of them is the Karl Rove-connected American Crossroads. Another was the Koch brother-funded Americans for Prosperity…I don’t intend to let them buy their way to a Senate seat in North Carolina. And I need your help.”
Hagan makes it very clear: she thinks that conservative super PACs are trying to buy the election.
For the sake of consistency then, using Hagan’s own standard, wouldn’t she also believe that Harry Reid’s Senate Majority PAC is trying to buy North Carolina’s U.S. Senate seat?
Why hasn’t Kay Hagan sent out campaign emails and press releases decrying Senate Majority PAC and calling for Harry Reid to keep his money out of North Carolina?
It boils down to this: Kay Hagan is a hypocrite who practices an absurdly blatant double standard when it comes to outside spending.
Hagan says it is a travesty for conservative super PACS to spend money critiquing her liberal record. She believes this kind of spending should be illegal.
But Hagan thinks it is simply great when liberal super PACs spend millions of dollars to promote her candidacy and run false and misleading television ads against her Republican opponents.
There is good reason why Kay Hagan has a serious credibility problem with North Carolinians.