Senate races

Union releases attack ad on Toomey over Wall Street career

by Harper Neidig 04/29/16 11:08 AM CDT

The American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees’s (AFSCME) political action committee released an ad on Friday attacking Sen. Pat Toomey (R-Pa.) for his Wall Street connections.

{mosads}“Pat Toomey started his career as an investment banker,” a narrator in the ad says. “Then, a Wall Street wheeler-dealer, overseeing stock trades in New York, London and Tokyo. Next, Toomey moved to Hong Kong to work with wealthy Chinese investors.”

“In the Senate, it’s no surprise Toomey’s been siding with Wall Street, voting to allow banks to continue to make the risky investments that wrecked our economy.”

Toomey’s campaign responded to the ad on Friday, accusing McGinty’s “liberal special interest allies” of hypocrisy.

“Pat Toomey is widely known for his longtime efforts to fight corporate cronyism and stop government handouts to special interest groups,” said Toomey’s spokesman Ted Kwong in a statement. “Katie McGinty has built her entire career on doing just the opposite, using her posts in government to enrich herself on corporate boards and her friends with taxpayer dollars.”

That theme is echoed in an ad released by the Toomey campaign on Friday.

Toomey is up for reelection this year and is widely seen as one of the most vulnerable Republicans in the Senate.

The race has heated up since McGinty won the Democratic primary on Tuesday. Some strategists think the outcome of the race could be determined by who’s at the top of the presidential ticket.