AFP, funded by the Koch Brothers, is now airing attack ads in Colorado

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As expected, AFP ad hits Sen. Mark Udall on Obamacare
By Lynn Bartels, March 16, 2014

UPDATE: AFP was unable to answer my question whether the woman in the ad is an actor and whether she is a Coloradan. But if you click on this link, it’s clear the anti Obamacare ads from AFP feature the same person saying the same thing.



The conservative group Americans for Prosperity on Monday will begin airing an ad targeting Sen. Mark Udall over his support for the Affordable Care Act, saying, “Obamacare doesn’t work.”

Democrats counter that’s not true.

Dustin Zvonek, Colorado state director of AFP, said the TV ads are only part of the effort to hold Udall accountable for his continued support of ObamaCare.

“As the state’s largest free-market advocacy group, we will also engage our nearly 68,000 Colorado activist to begin holding phone banks, and going door-to-door, neighbor-to-neighbor talking to Coloradans about Sen. Udall’s record,” he said.

AFP, funded in part by the billionaire Koch brothers, has bought an ad buy of nearly $850,000 in Denver and Colorado Springs over the next three weeks. The group also is funding ads in other states where Democratic seats are up for grabs.

The women [sic] in the Udall ad begins by saying, “People don’t like political ads. I don’t like them either.”

Then she should quit making them. She has starred in three nearly identical “Obamacare just doesn’t work” ads, one targeting Udall, one targeting U.S. Kay Hagan, D-N.C., and one that urges Americans to call Congress.


A spokesman for AFP in February told ABC News “it’s no secret” that the people in their ads are actors.

“That’s a lot of money spent on an actor repeating a talking point,” said Democratic political consultant Laura Chapin.

Conservatives believe they have a chance of taking the Colorado seat ever since U.S. Rep. Cory Gardner unexpectedly entered the race because of his frustration over Obamacare.

“The consequences of ObamaCare are clear: Coloradans and taxpayers across the country have had their policies cancelled, they are facing rising premiums, and losing access to their doctors despite promises to the contrary,” Zvonek said. “Sen. Udall needs to get out of Washington, D.C., long enough to see that ObamaCare is truly harming real Coloradans, instead of continuing to double down on this disastrous policy.”

Recent numbers from the Division of Insurance indicate that more than 330,000 Coloradans have had their policies cancelled while only 85,000 have enrolled through the state’s new health exchange, AFP said.

Ben Davis, a spokesman for Connect for Health Colorado, the state’s health care exchange program, said some plans were cancelled because they didn’t meet the new floor for health plans in the United States.

“Additionally, health insurers cancel plans every year for a wide variety of reasons unrelated to the ACA. Many of those cancelled plans were the lowest-coverage, lowest-cost plans for consumers that may qualify for expanded Medicaid under the new rules, leading those consumers to enroll in public healthcare,” he said. “The goal of Connect for Health Colorado is to insure consumers who were already insured and changing coverage as well as the uninsured, meaning that the state’s marketplace needs both to accomplish their mission. Cut through all the political BS and you simply have a website offering consumers a place to comparison shop available health plans.”

A federal report released last week shows Colorado’s health insurance marketplace was fourth-highest among the 15 state-run exchanges in private-insurance enrollments. Connect for Health Colorado signed up 220,441 people through March 1 — with 135,560 enrolling in Medicaid and 84,881 purchasing private insurance.
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