Titus for Congress is up with a “lost jobs” ad again going after Republican Joe Heck:

“The only thing that is actually true in this ad is that it was approved by Dina Titus,” quipped Joe Heck spokeswoman Mari Nakashima in a conversation with Battle ‘10.

The first part of the ad — similar to past ads run by Titus — is based on a cut-off quote from a Joe Heck appearance on the Nevada News Makers television program. In that interview, he said, “The role of Congress is not to create jobs, it is to set the conditions under which the private sector creates jobs. And you do that through a stable, fair, predictable tax base, you do that by not pursuing onerous regulations on small, medium and large businesses.”

Titus refused to take down a previous version of this ad though asked to do so by the show host on the basis that the quote was taken out of context.

Regarding Heck’s supposed opposition to saving City Center from bankruptcy, Heck has repeatedly said he does not believe government should be “in the practice of picking winners and losers,” i.e. deciding which private companies receive help and which do not. “I believe in the free markets, and I believe that had City Center not been able to be completed by MGM, that another organization would have come in and would have purchased the infrastructure and completed the project,” said Heck in an interview earlier this summer.

As for the accusation about Heck supporting policies that send jobs overseas, Heck has pointed out that the Titus-backed stimulus bill sent more jobs overseas than to Nevada. He has also defended his choice to sign the taxpayer pledge by Americans for Tax Reform, upon which the criticisms in the ad are based.

Finally, regarding the “tax cut for millionaires that will add a trillion dollars to the national debt, costing even more jobs,” that criticism is based on Heck’s support for permanently extending all the Bush tax cuts. Titus has said she supports extending the tax cuts for the middle class and possibly raising the $250,000 threshold, but has not said she supports tax cuts for top earners.