Shannon Getting Boost From Outside Group
Shannon Senate Bid from Oklahoma Draws Outside Support
BY GREGORY GIROUX
Oklahoma Republican T.W. Shannon is getting help for his Senate campaign in one of the nation’s most Republican states.
Oklahomans for a Conservative Future, an Oklahoma City-based group, is paying for television ads and mail promoting Shannon, a former state House Speaker and the first black person to hold that position.
Shannon is a “champion” opposing abortion and supporting gun owners’ rights and was the “most conservative House Speaker in Oklahoma history,” a narrator says in an ad that began running yesterday on Tulsa’s NBC affiliate, according to Kantar Media’s CMAG.
Shannon worked to overhaul welfare programs and cut taxes, the ad says.
“And we know T.W. Shannon will fight to finally end Obamacare,” the narrator concludes.