Paige Kreegel Pushes Back Against Curt Clawson in CD 19

Former state Rep. Paige Kreegel responded to attacks from Republican congressional primary foe Curt Clawson on Monday. A super-PAC backing Kreegel is running attack ads against Clawson and the Clawson camp, after a phone call from Kreegel last week, insists there are questions about how involved Kreegel is in the operations of the Values are Vital super-PAC.

A recent phone call I made, and message I left on Curt Clawson's voice mail is generating a lot of speculation, Kreegel said on Monday. Everyday my campaign manager does a routine search of expenditures by the various political action committees (PACs) involved in the CD19 special election. This information is publicly available on the Federal Election Commission website, and is the same method used to reveal that outsider Clawson contributed $2,500 to the campaign of Michigan Democrat Debbie Stabenow and $10,000 to Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell.

When notified by my staff on Friday of an FEC filing by a Super-PAC, indicating that they were to spend money in opposition of Curt Clawson, I called Curt personally to express my displeasure with a process over which I have no control, Kreegel added. Apparently no good deed goes unpunished, and Clawson and his high priced Washington, D.C. consultants made the decision to use my act of civility against me. It's abundantly clear that Curt would like to make an issue out of it since he has taken a recent beating in the press and in the polls.