The DCCC released a new TV ad in the race for WI-03, “DC Derrick,” exposing Derrick Van Orden’s record putting data center developers ahead of West Central Wisconsin.
The ad highlights how Van Orden took thousands from one of the biggest data center developers in America, just days before voting to give them $70 billion in tax breaks – all while Wisconsinites are footing the bill for the special interests giveaway and higher utility bills.
The ad – the second to run in WI-03 from the DCCC and the Cooke campaign – is airing in La Crosse, Wausau, Minneapolis, and Madison beginning today and is part of the committee’s coordinated spending in key battleground districts.
VOICEOVER: “Looks like DC doesn’t just stand for Washington… It stands for data centers, too.”
Transcript:
Cooke: I’m Rebecca Cooke and I approve this message.
Narrator: They call him DC Derrick Van Orden.
He took thousands from one of the biggest data center developers in America.
Days later, DC Derrick voted to give them seventy billion in tax breaks.
Now, Wisconsin families are paying his tab twice.
Once for his massive tax giveaway to data centers.
Then again, with higher utility bills.
Looks like DC doesn’t just stand for Washington…
It stands for data centers, too.
DC Derrick… sold us out.
