To: Terry Maloney who wrote (411014 ) 10/13/2010 5:37:04 PM From: S. maltophilia Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 436258 Between: GOP groups plan wave of spending on House races By JIM KUHNHENN (AP) – 4 hours ago WASHINGTON — Eager to keep Democrats on the defensive, Republican-allied groups are planning a $50 million advertising drive in a number of House races in an extraordinary surge of spending in the final days of the midterm election campaign. The effort by some of the GOP's top strategists comes amid a wave of new fundraising. American Crossroads and Crossroads Grassroots Policy Strategies, two affiliated groups formed this year with the help of operatives Karl Rove and Ed Gillespie, said Wednesday they raised google.com and Chamber vows to spend more on election WASHINGTON — U.S. Chamber of Commerce President Thomas Donohue vowed Tuesday to "ramp up" political advertising in the final weeks before the Nov. 2 election and accused the Obama administration of conducting a smear campaign against the chamber. In a defiant letter to the chamber's board of directors, Donohue denied White House and Democratic claims that the chamber has used foreign money to pay for its political ads this election campaign. The chamber has purchased more than $10 million in ads,...seattletimes.nwsource.com and Never in modern political history has there been so much secret money gushing into an American election. By Election Day, independent groups will have aired more than $200 million worth of campaign ads using cash that can’t be traced back to its original source, predicts Fred Wertheimer, president of the nonprofit group Democracy 21. “And this is just the beginning,” Wertheimer said. “Unless we get some changes here to .....politico.com amongst others, not to mention the milquetoast Dems, get ready for:truth-out.org