According to the website factcheck.org…
“The American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees is spending more than $1.5 million on ads that attack Republican congressional candidates in Michigan and Nevada. The big ad buy from the labor union also comes with some grandiose — and misleading — claims:
• An ad in Michigan says GOP candidate Tim Walberg cast votes that “helped burn down our economy.” But the four Democratic-backed bills the ad cites all passed — regardless of how Walberg voted.
• The ad also charges that Walberg “skipped out on a vote” to save auto industry jobs. He was in the hospital, recovering from surgery, when the House voted on, and easily passed, the automakers bailout bill.
• In Nevada, an ad claims that Republican Joe Heck’s Social Security proposal “would have erased” a woman’s retirement. But Heck has called for voluntary private accounts, not forced “privatization” of the whole system.
• Another ad makes the over-the-top charge that Heck is “dangerous to women,” because of his Social Security idea and his opposition to a state bill to require insurance coverage of a cervical cancer vaccine. Heck opposed the bill, but it easily became law.
Both Republican candidates are running against freshman Democrats in the House.”