(Washington, D.C.) – The Council for Citizens Against Government Waste Political Action Committee (CCAGWPAC) today unveiled an ad it is running in four swing-state media markets across the country. 

The thirty-second ad will run on cable television between Monday, October 6 and Sunday, October 19, 2008 in: Columbus, Ohio; Richmond, Virginia; Hampton County, Virginia (the Norfolk-Portsmouth area); Lancaster, Pennsylvania; Harrisburg, Pennsylvania; and Orange County, Florida (the Orlando-Daytona Beach area).  It will run a total of 1,014 times during programming on cable stations such as TNT, ESPN, Lifetime, and the USA Network.  The ads are estimated to reach 930,707 adults aged 35 or older, or 41 percent of the 35 and older population, in these cable markets.

The ads point out Sen. McCain’s anti-pork barrel spending record during his 25-year career in the U.S. Senate and contrasts it with Sen. Barack Obama’s record on congressional pork-barrel earmarking.    

The script for the ad reads:

“John McCain.  Not just a war hero.  A taxpayer hero.  In 25 years, McCain never requested a single pork barrel spending project.  Not a dime in special interest earmarks.  Barack Obama?  $740 million in special interest earmarks in just 3 years.  There's nothing Washington's tax-and-spend politicians fear more than John McCain in the White House.  The Council for Citizens Against Government Waste PAC is responsible for content of this advertising.”

The ad can be viewed on the CCAGW PAC’s website, www.ccagwpac.org.

The Council for Citizens Against Government Waste is the lobbying arm of Citizens Against Government Waste, a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization dedicated to eliminating waste, fraud, abuse, and mismanagement in government.