Published Tuesday, Sept. 6, 2016 | 10:36 a.m.
Updated Tuesday, Sept. 6, 2016 | 12:51 p.m.
The League of Conservation Voters is launching a TV ad today that accuses Republican U.S. Senate candidate Rep. Joe Heck of voting in line with the interests of oil companies and threatening clean-energy jobs in Nevada.
The 30-second ad, called “Risk,” highlights the advances Nevada has made in clean energy and suggests Heck has put 25,000 Nevada jobs at risk.
“Joe Heck’s taken hundreds of thousands in Big Oil money. And voted their way, protecting billions in tax breaks for Big Oil,” the narrator in the ad says. “Threatening Nevada’s solar economy. Twenty-five thousand Nevada jobs at risk. Because Joe Heck’s in Big Oil’s pocket.”
Heck spokesman Brian Baluta called the ad one of the “most dishonest” attacks on Heck this election cycle.
Baluta said Heck has been a “strong supporter” of solar jobs in Nevada and dismissed the LCV as a “DC-based partisan special interest that wants to put Nevadans out of work by stopping reasonable mining, ranching, agriculture and recreation."
The group’s super PAC, LCV Victory Fund, plans to spend $860,000 on the ad, which will run on broadcast and cable television in Las Vegas through Sept. 15 and in Reno until Sept. 19.
The ad brings the total investment by the LCV and LCV Victory Fund this U.S. Senate race to more than $3 million, including a $1.4 million canvass campaign from the LCV and a $750,000 ad campaign from the LCV Victory Fund.
The U.S. Senate race in Nevada is expected to be one of the most costly if not the most costly in the state’s history. Heck is locked in a fierce battle with Democratic former state Attorney General Catherine Cortez Masto to replace Democratic Sen. Harry Reid, who is retiring at the end of his term.
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