Senator Mark Kelly’s campaign, flush with cash, has been flooding the Arizona airwaves with incessant ads beating up his Republican challenger, Blake Masters. While the Arizona Republican Party and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell have failed to come through for Masters, an ‘anti-woke’ group has stepped up.
Citizens For Sanity (CFS) struck once again last week with their latest ad placed in the Arizona Daily Star.
Did you see our ad yesterday, Arizona? @TucsonStar pic.twitter.com/um54K81auN
— Citizens for Sanity (@citizens_sanity) September 23, 2022
“Did you see our ad yesterday, Arizona?, tweeted Citizens for Sanity. The ad reads, “Don’t be a racist cisgender colonizer. Support Mark Kelly and keep our borders open.”
The group took out an ad in late August in the Ahwatukee Foothills News with the same open border theme:
“Drug cartels are trying to run an honest business. Help them stay profitable by supporting Mark Kelly and keeping our borders wide open.”
Seen in Phoenix today!
Thanks @SenMarkKelly 👇 pic.twitter.com/sCbk9UEijq— Citizens for Sanity (@citizens_sanity) August 31, 2022
The group’s ad in the Arizona Daily Sun, took a shot at the culture war.
“Thank you Mark Kelly, for voting to protect pregnant men, to keep our borders open, and to safeguard violent criminals,” wrote CFS. “Woke values are Arizona values.”
New CFS ads seen in the Arizona Daily Sun! 👇
It's clear: @SenMarkKelly's Woke Values hurt #AZ. pic.twitter.com/pb46xEwZth— Citizens for Sanity (@citizens_sanity) August 22, 2022
Citizens for Sanity’s “mission is to return common sense to America, to highlight the importance of logic and reason, and to defeat “wokeism” and anti-critical thinking ideologies that have permeated every sector of our country and threaten the very freedoms that are foundational to the American Dream,” according to their website.
To that end, the group is running ads across the country in key swing states, including Georgia and Wisconsin.
An important message from us in today's @WiStateJournal pic.twitter.com/yVWtDllRxs
— Citizens for Sanity (@citizens_sanity) September 26, 2022
Stuck in traffic? Look for some of our latest messages in Atlanta as you go about your day. 👇👇 pic.twitter.com/zk2fsuYabn
— Citizens for Sanity (@citizens_sanity) September 22, 2022
Masters’ campaign has struggled despite the fact that he handily won the Republican primary after scoring the Donald Trump endorsement and thanks to millions of dollars of spending on his behalf by billionaire Peter Thiel. However, neither Trump nor Thiel have spent on Masters’ behalf during the general election, and the under-funded Masters has been unable to connect with moderate Republicans and America First Democrats and Independents. Kelly leads in the polls, although recent polls have shown Masters closing the gap, likely due to the attention brought to the border crisis by Governors Ducey, DeSantis, and Abbott.