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Around The World With Catherine Cortez Masto
A Viajar El Mundo Con Catherine Cortez Masto
GOP Sets Sights On Cortez Masto In New Ad
Reno Gazette-Journal
December 15, 2015
Republicans will set their sights on former Attorney General Catherine Cortez Masto in an ad slated to premier Tuesday during the Republican presidential debate.
The National Republican Senatorial Committee is sponsoring the ad which criticizes Cortez Masto, the presumptive Democratic nominee, for wanting to accept Syrian refugees in the wake of the Paris attacks.
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"Catherine Cortez Masto is all too willing to make our homeland vulnerable to the possibility of additional terrorist attacks," said NRSC spokesman Greg Blair. "By lining up behind the clueless national security strategies of Harry Reid and Barack Obama, Cortez Masto has proven that she’ll be little more than a rubber stamp for her party in Washington rather than a fighter for Nevada families."
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Nevada’s U.S. Senate race is set to be one of the most heated in the country as Republicans look to flip the seat belonging to one of the longest-serving Democrats in the country.
NRSC Critiques Masto On Travel In GOP Debate-Night Ad
Politico
December 15, 2015
National Republicans are criticizing Democratic Senate candidate Catherine Cortez Masto for spending too much time and money on out-of-state travel while she was Nevada’s attorney general, hoping to land an early hit against Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid’s handpicked successor.
In a TV ad provided first to POLITICO, the National Republican Senatorial Committee attacks Masto for taking "36 lavish trips in just five years." A narrator ticks off locales Masto visited while attorney general, including Switzerland, Israel, and Napa Valley, "all bought and paid for by special interest groups," as scenic postcards from each location appear. The ad said the 36 trips amounted to a "taxpayer-funded four weeks of vacation each year."
"Pretty good gig if you can get it," the narrator concludes.
The ad, titled "’Around The World’ With Catherine Cortez Masto," will air in the Las Vegas and Reno markets during Tuesday’s GOP presidential debate. A Spanish-language version will also air.
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The NRSC also indicated it had plenty of additional material to throw at Cortez Masto. The committee says Masto spent 174 days out of the state from 2009 to 2014, including 128 days at work — equivalent to six months’ worth of work weeks. The privately funded trips, some to conferences of the National Association of Attorneys General, the Democratic Attorneys Generals Association and the Conference of Western Attorneys General, cost $58,831. The public spent $14,000 on travel to DAGA and CWAG conferences.
The committee also pointed to two trips in particular. The first, in June 2013, took Masto to the NAAG conference in Boston. The taxpayer-funded $595 entry fee included a Red Sox ticket, and Masto stayed for three days after the conference ended, even taking a vacation day. But taxpayers paid for her flights in both directions. That same year, Masto stayed at a July CWAG meeting in Colorado Springs for four extra days.
Masto’s campaign defended the candidate’s record, noting she took a pay cut to protect her office’s budget and noted Heck voted against budgets that would have limited taxpayer-funded air travel for members of Congress.
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