NFIB spends nearly $1 million against Allen, Franken

The political action committee of the National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB) launched nearly $1 million in TV ads against Democratic Senate candidates Al Franken in Minnesota and Rep. Tom Allen in Maine this week.

The ads hit Franken and Allen for supporting the Employee Free Choice Act, which would allow workers to bypass secret ballot elections for union organizing under certain circumstances.

The ads are slickly produced and feature an employee working his way through a building as he is surveilled in various ways by higher-ups.

The TV ads are the first of the cycle for the PAC, also known as NFIB Safe Trust. The PAC spent $570,000 on the ad against Franken and $390,000 on the ad against Allen. In September, it ran $80,000 in newspaper ads against Franken and $40,000 in newspaper ads against Allen, bringing its total independent expenditures for those races to more than $1 million.

Lisa Goeas, NFIB