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Carnahan remains silent as fundraising partner calls out “extremist” League of Conservation Voters

February 2, 2010

United States Senator Blanch Lincoln recently ripped the League of Conservation Voters for being a “Washington-based” “liberal” “extremist” “special interest group.”

But while Lincoln is willing to stand up to these environmental extremists, her fundraising partner, Robin Carnahan, is relying on them to pay for false and negative ads aimed at helping her lackluster U.S. Senate campaign.  Over the past year, Carnahan has remained silent and allowed the LCV to do her dirty work for her—spending more than $750,000 on behalf of her campaign.

“Even Democrats believe that the League of Conservative Voters is an ‘extremist’ group.  But Robin Carnahan, who is struggling to raise her own money, has remained silent while this Washington-based special interest  poured more than $750,000 into Missouri to benefit her campaign for Senate,” said Lloyd Smith, Executive Director of the Missouri Republican Party.  “Robin Carnahan and her fundraising partner, Blanche Lincoln, have stood together in support of the Obama-Pelosi agenda, which includes a government takeover of our health care system and a failed stimulus bill.  Will Carnahan join Blanche Lincoln in finally exposing the League of Conservation Voters for what they really are?”

Carnahan and Lincoln opened a joint fundraising committee to raise money after Carnahan’s first partner, the embattled Senator Chris Dodd, announced he was retiring.

The League of Conservation Voters has spent more than three-quarters of a million dollars airing attack ads across the state of Missouri in what is clearly an effort to help Carnahan’s campaign for Senate.  The LCV bizarrely claims that their ads are not an effort to hurt Roy Blunt’s candidacy, but even the Springfield News-Leader has questioned that claim: “The group said they were not targeting [Blunt] as a U.S. Senate campaign, but as a sitting member of Congress.  But that doesn’t explain why the television ads ran in nearly every television market in Missouri and not just the 7th District markets of Springfield and Joplin.”