VIDEO: Rick Scott Categorically Denies Question on Record of Education Cuts

Rick Scott was asked yesterday at an event in South Florida about his track record of making cuts to education funding. Rather than dignifying the question with a response, Scott categorically denied the premise - saying "all that's incorrect" and immediately pivoting away from the question. Scott's rationale for denying and evading the question is obvious: he doesn't want to talk about the billions in education funding that were cut during his tenure as governor, especially not with his re-election prospects hanging in the balance.

Remember Scott Brown? We do…

Scott Brown's 2012 campaign for Senate in Massachusetts was a wealth of Wall Street-loving, Conan O'Brien-plagiarizing, Obamacare-hating, Tea Party-adoring, Romney joke-sharing, anti-environmental-protecting, anecdote-stealing hypocrisy. Now that he's looking to stick his toe back into the Senate waters of Massachuse... New Hampshire, American Bridge reminds you of the best of Brown's 2012 campaign.

Republican Candidates for Senate in Georgia at it Again

First, it was unemployment benefits. Each and every one of the Republican candidates for Senate in Georgia raised their hands when asked whether they oppose extending unemployment benefits for struggling Americans. Now, we've learned that the major candidates in this Republican primary have all declared their opposition to increasing the minimum wage. See for your self in this video from a candidate forum at the National Federation of Independent Businesses Georgia Small Business Day last month:

Christie Plays Politics with 9/11 Wreckage

Chris Christie's administration closed lanes onto the George Washington Bridge to punish the mayor of Fort Lee for refusing to endorse the governor, but it wasn't the first time his office used an aggressive carrot/stick approach on those with whom the governor sought to curry favor. As the New York Times reported yesterday, Christie gave pieces of wreckage from the World Trade Center attack on 9/11 as political favors to "20 carefully chosen New Jersey mayors who sat atop a list of 100 whose endorsements Gov. Chris Christie hoped to win." Check out American Bridge's new video on Christie's despicable use of these 9/11 artifacts as political gifts:

It's Time to Stop Joking and Come Clean, Governors

What do scandal-embroiled Republican Governors Chris Christie and Pat McCrory have in common? Why, cracking jokes about their involvement in their respective scandals, of course. Back in December, Christie joked off his involvement in the BridgeGate lane closures, saying “I worked the cones. Unbeknownst to anyone, I was working the cones." Now, this week, North Carolina Governor Pat McCrory said regarding scrutiny over the third largest coal ash spill in U.S. history, "“It’s as though I actually went there with a shovel. I’m waiting for that accusation." Enough is enough. It's time these GOP Governors stop joking and come clean with the truth about their involvement in these scandals.

Minimum Wage Increase-Opponent Rauner Counts Himself Part of the "0.01%"

Illinois gubernatorial candidate and multi-millionaire Bruce Rauner - who has said he "adamantly" opposes increasing the minimum wage - recently proclaimed himself a member of the "0.01%" wealthiest Americans in an interview with the Chicago Sun Times. Rauner owns nine homes and made $53 million last year. But that didn't stop him from saying at a gubernatorial candidate forum last fall that he is "adamantly against" increasing the minimum wage, a policy intended to help hardworking Americans better support their families and achieve a higher quality of life. Check out Rauner's out-of-touch comments against the minimum wage, which American Bridge caught on tape:

Inside the war room: Meet the Democrats who are watching every move the GOP makes

Take a peek inside American Bridge's war room on the first day of CPAC 2014 with American Bridge President Brad Woodhouse and ABC's Jeff Zeleny. Watch the video here.

Inside the war room: Meet the Democrats who are watching every move the GOP makes By Jeff Zeleny and Jordyn Phelps With one of the biggest Republican gatherings of the year in full swing at the Conservative Political Action Conference, a group of Democratic operatives in Washington is fighting back -- waging a full-out public relations war to counter CPAC. “We are kind of the central apparatus for tracking and research, really, on the progressive side. And so at an event like CPAC, we put our resources to work,” said American Bridge PAC president Brad Woodhouse, speaking to “The Fine Print” during a rare tour of the Democratic group’s so-called war room. The room is filled with rows of desks equipped with double-monitor computer screens, which a group of about 40 Democratic operatives are using to monitor and fact-check speeches at CPAC as they happen, issue rapid responses, and monitor the media and social networking sites.

Rick Scott's Real State of the State

Rick Scott has a history of election year pandering, and it was on full display during his State of the State speech today. Whether Scott's touting his dubious 700,000 jobs creation promise, flip flopping on his pledge to protect educating funding, or refusing to discuss raising the minimum wage (which he's said makes him "cringe"), billionaire Scott has shown time and again he's committed to putting his re-election prospects and self interested ahead of what's best for Florida's middle class. American Bridge took a close look at Scott's speech today, check out our new series of videos to get the truth on some of Scott's most dubious promises and claims:

Rick Scott's Real State of the State: On Jobs

Proof: Scott Walker Knew About Staff's Secret Email Network

For someone who has repeatedly denied he knew about the secret email network his staff used to conduct campaign business during government work hours, Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker sure received a lot of emails sent from this network. American Bridge and our team of more than two dozen researchers reviewed all of the 27,000 pages of emails released from the Walker "John Doe" investigation recently. As reported in today's Washington Post, American Bridge discovered that Walker "was copied on 960 e-mails sent to the private e-mail addresses of public employees during work hours." That's right. Nearly one thousand emails sent to Walker on his staff's secret email network during work hours. Walker's days of culpable deniability are long gone.

American Bridge Launches BridgeGateTapes.com

Twenty-six hours of audio tapes of emergency worker dispatch calls from the four day span of BridgeGate were released at 8:30 AM today by the police department of Fort Lee, New Jersey. American Bridge was first in line to receive the tapes, and has posted them on our new website: BridgeGateTapes.com. The audio from these tapes may provide a window into the burden local law enforcement and emergency response workers shouldered while Christie's administration sought to penalize a political foe of the Governor. Christie has repeatedly claimed he knew nothing of the lane closures while they were happening, yet his public statements about this timeline have been inconsistent and imprecise, and official investigations continue into what he knew about this scandal and when.