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WATCH: NEW DCCC AD “1984” SAYS AFTER 34 YEARS IT’S TIME TO REBOOT MIKE BOST

Today, in the race for Illinois’ Twelfth Congressional District, the DCCC announced a new television ad that cleverly chronicles the decades Rep. Mike Bost has spent as a politician and the ways he has put himself and his donors over his constituents. The ad will begin airing in the district today, and is the first DCCC ad in the race.

WATCH NEW DCCC AD “1984” HERE

The ad, “1984,” uses images of computers and gadgets looking different from decade to decade to illustrate the 34 years Bost has spent in politics, while voicing how he has voted with his big dollars campaign donors and stopped looking out for Southern Illinois. The ad specifically calls out Bost for voting to increase prescription drug costs for seniors and gut protections for folks in Illinois with preexisting conditions.

“A lot of things have changed in the last thirty four years, but one constant is that Rep. Mike Bost is running for something. It’s not just that Mike Bost is a career politician, it’s that he has stopped looking out for his constituents and started looking out for himself and his donors instead. From voting to raise his own pay in Springfield, to taking cash from drug and insurance companies then turning around and gutting health care protections in Washington, it’s clear Mike Bost can’t be counted on.” – DCCC Spokesperson Jacob Peters

Script:

Narrator: Remember nineteen eighty-four?  It’s the year Mike Bost first took political office. In ninety-five, Mike Bost went to Springfield. And raised his own pay. In Congress he took hundreds of thousands of dollars from the pharmaceutical and insurance industries. And voted seven times to increase the cost of prescription drugs. And to let insurance companies discriminate against pre-existing conditions. Mike Bost. After thirty-four years … it’s time to re-boot.





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