DCCC spends $500k in TV ad buy against Payday Paton

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Posted by AzBlueMeanie:

The Arizona Capitol Times (subscription required) reports Jonathan Paton targeted in DCCC's $500k TV ad buy: 

The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee stepped up the attack on Republican Jonathan Paton this week and has so far committed half a million dollars in TV advertising to help former U.S. Rep. Ann Kirkpatrick in her bid to win the seat.

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In its first TV ad for the Kirkpatrick-Paton contest, the Democratic committee rehashed the charge that Paton lobbied for the payday loan industry.

DCCC’s ad buy is worth approximately $500,000, the committee said.

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The TV ad calls Paton a corporate lobbyist who defended the payday loan industry’s “predatory targeting of seniors” and who, as a legislator, defended a ballot measure to “bail out” the industry.

“He profits. We pay the price,” the ad declares.

Paton’s campaign didn’t refute the TV commercial’s charge.

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Paton was a lobbyist for the Community Financial Services Association, the payday loan industry’s trade group, in 2004.

In 2008, he supported Prop. 200, an industry-backed proposal to continue payday lending. Voters rejected the proposition, and payday lending in Arizona ended in 2010.

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