Democratic super PAC targets North Texas GOP legislative hopefuls in TV ads on health care, schools

The Democratic super PAC Forward Majority Action on Tuesday was to begin running cable TV and digital ads that rip into Republican state Reps. Angie Chen Button, Jeff Leach and Matt Sheehan on health care, while raking the efforts of Mansfield Mayor David Cook, another GOP candidate for Texas House, on behalf of an ice rink. National Democrats hope to flip the House, to stop another GOP gerrymander of U.S. House, legislative maps next year. (Ashley Landis/Staff Photographer)

Ten GOP hopefuls for Texas House in the Dallas-Fort Worth area are being pounded in attack ads that slam them on health care and schools.

On Tuesday, the pro-Democratic super PAC Forward Majority Action Texas was to begin a barrage of cable TV and digital ads, part of a planned $2.6 million advertising buy in North Texas before the Nov. 3 election.

The ads cast several of the area’s Republican House candidates as tools of the health insurance and pharmaceutical industries, and criticized another for allegedly using his clout as mayor to push his local schools to fritter away money on an ice rink.

Read the full piece from The Dallas Morning News.