Special interest groups are hammering the airwaves in states like West Virginia, Nevada, Georgia, New Hampshire and the District of Columbia as the Senate closes in on passing legislation that would allow Medicare to demand lower prices for prescription drugs and cut into the profits of pharmaceutical companies.
The ads have become so ubiquitous in Nevada that Democratic Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto, who is in a tough fight for reelection, hit the Senate floor this week to defend her record and blast the organization airing them as “a dark money group” that accused her of supporting a bill that would lead to billions of dollars in cuts to Medicare.
“I was shocked when last week, hundreds of Nevadans began calling my office,” Cortez Masto said. “They were anxious and alarmed over a deliberately misleading ad that is running on TV, on Facebook and via a text campaign.”
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