Anti-EFCA Groups Continue to Rely on Karl Rove and Bad Data

The Economic Freedom Alliance, a right-wing business organization whose members include the Missouri Chamber of Commerce, is currently running billboards and online ads attacking Claire McCaskill, Ike Skelton, Russ Carnahan, Emanuel Cleaver and Lacy Clay. The ads, which some of you may have seen on billboards or online, accuse the Democratic members of Congress of "killing jobs" because they've been supported by labor organizations and support the Employee Free Choice Act.

The ads are based on a "thoroughly discredited study" funded by the "corporate-friendly, anti-union 'Alliance to Save Main Street Jobs" and "based entirely on decades-old data from a handful of Canadian provinces."

Coincidentally, the Economic Freedom Alliance has paid $100,000 in consulting fees to Karl Rove and Co this year, in handsome $20,000 monthly payments. The EFA also gave $5,000 to the right-wing Americans for Prosperity organization for "event expenses."

Rove and Lt. Gov. Peter Kinder campaigned together against the Employee Free Choice Act last month.

(h/t The Wonk Room)