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she said via Twitter, referring to North Carolina's Democratic senator, who is running for re-election next year.
• At one stop in the state, Kremer called out Ellmers. "I haven't given up on the congresswoman," she said.
• Another conservative group, FreedomWorks, has sponsored dozens of town hall meetings featuring cardboard cutouts of House members and senators who declined invitations to attend the "Defund Obamacare" sessions.
• Several groups joined forces for a defunding rally at Boehner's Ohio district headquarters. The conservative anti-tax group Club for Growth has already endorsed a handful of primary challengers, including against Boehner allies.
• A political action committee called the Senate Conservatives Fund spent $340,000 on an ad criticizing McConnell. It's set to run on cable and networks in Kentucky until Tuesday.
• "Mitch McConnell is the key to stopping Obamacare," an off-camera announcer states. "Republicans in the Senate have the power to defeat funding for Obamacare, but they won't use it if their leader tells them to surrender." McConnell, the announcer continues, "wants Kentucky voters to re-elect him because he's the Republican leader, but what good is that title if he won't use it to help Kentucky families?"
• McConnell spokesman Don Stewart said the senator stands by his position. "He's been very vocal back home over the need to repeal, dismantle, defund the law -- you name it, he's for it," Stewart said.
• While Stewart can tick off the number of speeches McConnell gave before the law's passage and the number of Kentucky town halls he's held to hammer the law, it, he also acknowledges political realities facing the movement to stop Obama's health care overhaul. "The question," he said, "is how to do it."
• In Atlanta, Bozell said that argument amounts to "trying to have it both ways."
• "They'll vote to repeal it," he said. "But they won't stand up and do everything they can to stop it."

AP News in Brief
Stranded residents rescued by air, ground from Colo. mountain towns as plains are inundated

• LYONS, Colo. (AP) -- By air and by land, the rescue of hundreds of Coloradoans stranded by epic mountain flooding was accelerating as food and water supplies ran low, while thousands more were driven from their homes on the plains as debris-filled rivers became muddy seas inundating towns and farms miles from the

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