Want the scoop on hot races around the country? Get the digest emailed to you each weekday morning. Sign up here. Leading Off: ' ND-Sen: After mashing a few eggs into their own face, then receiving a firm kick in the shins from their intended victim, Crossroads GPS is back up with a new (and entirely different) ad attacking Democrat Heidi Heitkamp, seeing as their last one got pulled off the air for blatant falsehoods. I'm thinking this one won't fare any better. Crossroads now tries to accuse Heitkamp of engaging in "pay-to-play" while she was state AG, claiming she received campaign contributions from a Rhode Island attorney, Jack McConnell, who performed work for the state in a large, multi-state tobacco lawsuit.
There's a big problem, though: McConnell didn't receive a penny in compensation from North Dakota. (He represented other states in the matter on contingency, but evidently he included the Peace Garden State pro bono.) What's more, all this nonsense came up last year, too, when McConnell was nominated by President Obama to serve as a federal court judge. He was confirmed, too'and do you really think Senate Republicans, who never have any problem blocking judicial nominees on the barest pretext'would have let McConnell's appointment go through if this "pay to play" bullshit were real? I know this will sound crazy, but it's almost like Karl Rove is a compulsive liar or something.
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