WASHINGTON (AP) _ One of the biggest outside groups backed by billionaire conservative donors Charles and David Koch is spending $1.4 million to attack a Democratic Senate candidate in Ohio in television advertisements.
The ads against former Ohio Governor Ted Strickland are paid for by a nonprofit group, Americans for Prosperity, that doesn't disclose its donors. It spends hundreds of millions of dollars backing Republicans. Ohio Republican Sen. Rob Portman is up for re-election this year.
In the ad, a man who says he used to work for delivery company DHL says Ohio had “devastation and job loss'' while Strickland was governor. Strickland served a four-year term and was defeated in 2010 by Republican Governor John Kasich.
Americans for Prosperity also holds its annual activist summit in Columbus, Ohio, later this week.
