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New York Post: Attack Ad Depicts Widow ‘Kicked Out’ by Mnuchin’s Bank
Treasury Secretary nominee Steve Mnuchin’s biggest challenger may be a 61-year-old widow who runs a kite shop on the Oregon coast. Mnuchin’s past stint leading OneWest, a bank accused of fraudulently foreclosing upon thousands of homeowners in the wake of the financial crisis, is the focus of a new TV ad featuring a woman who claims the bank foreclosed on her after her husband died of cancer last year.
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Wall Street Journal: Appointment of Trump’s Economic Policy Team Faces Delays
Several of President-elect Donald Trump’s top economic policy jobs may go unfilled for days or even weeks after he is sworn in Friday, potentially slowing his pursuit of an ambitious domestic policy agenda that includes an overhaul of the tax code, repeal of the Affordable Care Act, infrastructure spending and broad deregulation.
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Politico’s Morning Money: Mnuchin’s Tax Haven? Left Reacts.
Via Allied Progress’s Karl Frisch: “According to these disclosures, Steven Mnuchin recently pocketed another $40 million from OneWest, the scandal-plagued foreclosure mill of a bank that he once ran and that has been accused of fraud and deceptive practices too many times to count.”
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Real Clear Politics: Cabinet Nominees Enter Confirmation Battlefield
The group Allied Progress is paying for two six-figure ad buys in Arizona and Nevada, targeting Republican Sens. Jeff Flake and Dean Heller, who are up for re-election in 2018 and represent states hard hit by the housing crisis, over the confirmation of Mnuchin.
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Bloomberg: Nine Trump Nominees Who’ll Face Extreme Vetting by Democrats
A political advocacy group called Allied Progress is running television ads targeting Republican senators in Arizona and Nevada, whose constituents had high foreclosure rates after the subprime mortgage crisis. The ad calls on Senators Jeff Flake of Arizona and Dean Heller of Nevada, who sits on the Finance Committee in charge of vetting Mnuchin, to vote against his confirmation. Both face re-election in 2018.
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Financial Times: Steve Mnuchin Faces Tough Road En Route to Treasury Post
Allied Progress, a progressive group, has been running advertising campaigns in Arizona and Nevada calling on Republican senators Jeff Flake and Dean Heller to reject him.
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The Hill: Dems Launch Early ’18 Attacks on GOP Senate Targets
Earlier this week, issue advocacy group Allied Progress ramped up its early advertising and launched six-figure broadcast and cable TV ads in Arizona and Nevada, calling on Flake and Heller to oppose Trump’s pick for Treasury secretary, Steven Mnuchin.
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Fox News: Nonprofits, Partisans Organize to Block Trump Cabinet Picks
Allied Progress has launched an ad campaign against Steve Mnuchin, Trump’s pick for Treasury secretary.
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Washington Examiner: Liberal Groups Launch Air War Pressing Flake, Heller to Oppose Mnuchin
The liberal interest group Allied Progress launched a six-figure advertising buy this week in a bid to pressure Republicans to oppose President-elect-Trump’s pick for treasury secretary.
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New York Post: Lefty Group Trying to Block Mnuchin’s Treasury Nomination
A left-leaning research group on Wednesday started a media offensive aimed at keeping Steven Mnuchin from being confirmed as Treasury secretary. Allied Progress launched a media blitz in Arizona and Nevada urging residents to reach out to their senators and ask them to vote no on the Mnuchin nomination.