Looks like it’s on in Pennsylvania. The U.S. Senate race between Tom Smith and Bob Casey is getting heated and all that talk about Smith not having name-recognition during the early campaign is over—now, voters are wondering who his opponent is…this Bob Casey guy who’s been hiding for six years? Nope, sorry. Haven’t heard of him.

So a Democratic Political Action Committee called Majority PAC has moved into Pennsylvania and is apparently spending $515 thousand on anti-Smith ads in Pittsburgh. A Tea Party group is already putting $200 thousand into the state to help Smith, on top of his own millions.

Here’s the first ad, hitting Tom Smith on education:

Tom Smith has his own ideas. Not about education, no—about coal. He’s none too happy about Bob Casey and Barack Obama’s so-called “war on” the stuff. Those Environmental Protection Agency standards are actually a conspiracy to put the coal industry out of business and it’s up to Tom Smith to stop them. Coal, after all, is a “way of life.” Tom Smith, says the coal guy in the ad “will fight for us because he’s one of us.” Watch:

Meanwhile, a super PAC associated with the Democratic Attorneys General Association is hitting AG candidate Dave Freed for supposedly opposing a review of the Jerry Sandusky case. Both Freed and Kane are criticizing the ad because it’s based on a report that was later corrected.