The ad highlights an apparent pay-to-play scheme in which Cortez Masto, as Nevada’s attorney general, took tens of thousands of dollars in contributions from well-connected Washington, D.C. law firms and rewarded her donors by outsourcing millions of dollars in state contracts to those same firms.
The ad is part of a significant NRSC ad buy in Nevada and begins airing today in the Las Vegas and Reno media markets.
“Catherine Cortez Masto is a career political insider with a trail of corruption that extends all the way to Washington, D.C. Her apparent willingness to trade campaign contributions for state contracts proves that she can’t be trusted to fight for Nevada. She’s just another politician gaming the system for personal benefit.” – NRSC spokesman Greg Blair
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SCRIPT
VO: Once upon a time, there were seven powerful law firms that planted campaign contributions with Catherine Cortez Masto.
VO: Night fell. Day came. And something extraordinary grew.
VO: Catherine Cortez Masto gave contracts and deals worth over $18 million to those same seven firms.
VO: To them, it felt like a fairy tale.
VO: For Nevada, Masto’s story of corruption and waste is all too real.