Protect Our Jobs, a pro-clean energy group, is pouring $1 million this week into ads targeting House Republicans who backed the reconciliation bill.
The ad campaign slams the Republican effort to roll back clean energy tax credits enacted in the Inflation Reduction Act. The House Freedom Caucus pushed hard to repeal these tax credits while a number of GOP moderates weren’t fully on board.
But now that the House has cleared the reconciliation package, Protect Our Jobs is accusing the lawmakers of abandoning projects that benefit their districts.
The ads are running against Republican Reps. Tom Barrett (Mich.), John James (Mich.), Derrick Van Orden (Wis.), Scott Perry (Pa.), Brian Fitzpatrick (Pa.), Mike Carey (Ohio), Juan Ciscomani (Ariz.), Gabe Evans (Colo.), Mark Amodei (Nev.), Buddy Carter (Ga.) and Mariannette Miller-Meeks (Iowa).
Here’s the ad targeting Barrett, a vulnerable freshman who flipped the seat previously held by Sen. Elissa Slotkin (D-Mich.).
“Tom Barrett just voted to cut clean energy production. Well, that’ll kill thousands of jobs,” a Republican electrician says in the ad. “Congressman, you turned your back on us. That’s not leadership. That’s selling us out.”
Barrett, Van Orden, Perry, Fitzpatrick, Ciscomani, Miller-Meeks and Evans are among the most endangered House GOP incumbents. James and Carter are both running statewide next year in the competitive battleground states of Michigan and Georgia, respectively.
Protect Our Jobs has spent $5 million to date this cycle on ads and is quickly becoming a major player in the battle for the House. As Democrats look to reclaim control of the chamber, targeting Republicans on the sprawling reconciliation package is the party’s main avenue of attack.
Sensing a backlash, a group of Republican senators has joined forces in an attempt to protect some of the clean energy tax credits that the House is slashing.
