Americans for Prosperity, the political slush fund of billionaire David Koch, will begin running television attacks on Congresswoman Giffords starting this Wednesday.

This election cycle, Americans for Prosperity is running a multi-million dollar TV advertising campaign against candidates who oppose Koch Industries’ agenda of outsourcing jobs and privatizing Social Security.

The AP reported Saturday that the group “is planning new ads in three Arizona and three Florida congressional districts next week.” Americans for Prosperity is planning to spend $4.1 million on the ads, according to the report.

Koch Industries and its subsidiaries have led the way in shipping jobs overseas to China and India; one even had the distinction of winning the 2006 Outsourcing Center and Forbes Magazine ‘Outsourcing Excellence Award’ in recognition of their work effectively sending American jobs to China.

Over the past 25 years, the Koch Family Foundation has funneled $132 million into right-wing attack groups, including Americans for Prosperity and FreedomWorks. This election cycle, Americans for Prosperity is running a multi-million dollar TV advertising campaign attacking those who oppose outsourcing jobs and privatizing Social Security and Medicare.

Campaign Manager Rodd McLeod expects this is the opening salvo of the millions of dollars special interest groups will spend this cycle trying to buy control of Arizona’s 8th District.

“Special interests groups like this one are not interested in helping Southern Arizonans,” McLeod said. “They want to get their hands on Arizona’s money by privatizing Social Security and getting tax breaks for shipping jobs overseas–and they’re trying to elect guys like Kelly and Paton to help them do it.”

Gabrielle Giffords is a third generation Southern Arizonan and the only military spouse in Congress. Gabrielle is not like other politicians. She’s voted against a Congressional pay raise every time one has come up, and she doesn’t make earmark requests for campaign contributors. She takes an independent view on the issues and was rated Arizona’s most moderate member of Congress by the National Journal in 2009. Most importantly, Gabrielle stands up for Southern Arizona by working across the aisle to secure the border, protect our servicemen and veterans and create jobs by investing in solar energy.

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