The YG Action Fund launched an ad bashing Democratic congressional candidate Lois Frankel’s tenure as West Palm Beach mayor.

YG (which stands for Young Guns) is supporting Frankel’s Republican opponent Adam Hasner in the Broward/Palm Beach Congressional District 22 race. Their cartoonish ad shows a smiling headshot of Frankel and makes a series of claims about her tenure as mayor. Here is part of the script:

“Frankel took a 40 percent pay raise with our money. We lost jobs,” the narrator says while the text on the screen states, “West Palm Beach lost jobs.” The ad then continues: “Frankel flew from a posh country club to a party across town in a police helicopter. You sat in traffic. Frankel went on a spending spree resulting in a budget deficit. You? Higher taxes to pay for it. $13,000 in taxpayer money for a designer marble bathroom in Frankel’s office.’’

For this fact-check, we will examine whether Frankel took a 40 percent pay raise while West Palm Beach lost jobs.

The ad doesn’t explain when Frankel — who served as mayor from 2003 to 2011 — took that 40 percent pay raise. A spokesman for the PAC said the pay raise referred to 2004 and sent us quotes from Palm Beach Post articles that year.

We will pull information from those articles:

In January 2004, Frankel formed a committee to explore whether she and commissioners should get a pay raise. She said she was forming the committee because the city code required an annual review of all employee salaries. At the time, the city foresaw a budget shortfall of $110,000. The prior year it had a $2 million shortfall.

The committee recommended increasing the mayor’s salary and the city commission obliged. (We were unable to quickly obtain the committee’s report or commission meeting minutes ourselves from a city spokesman so we relied on the Post’s articles about it.)

On July 6, 2004, the city commission unanimously voted to raise Frankel’s salary from $89,250 to $125,000 effective Oct. 1. That’s an increase of about $35,750 or 40 percent. The last time the mayor received a raise was 1998, the Post wrote.

Frankel didn’t vote on the pay raise, her campaign said. The city has a strong mayor form of government in which the mayor votes to break a tie, which wasn’t necessary in this case.

An analyst in the city’s human resources department told us that Frankel’s annual salary remained at $125,000 from 2004 through 2011.

Frankel doesn’t dispute that she got that pay raise.

“The city commission voted unanimously to adopt the recommendations of a blue-ribbon committee that called for raising the salaries of West Palm Beach’s elected officials to be more competitive,” wrote Frankel spokesman Joshua Karp. He cited this sentence from a Palm Beach Post article: The blue-ribbon committee “said the mayor’s pay hadn’t kept pace with the demands of the job in a fast-growing city.”

But as for the second half of the claim — while West Palm Beach “lost jobs” — Frankel points to some different employment statistics than those sent to us by the PAC.

Were taxpayers losing their own jobs while paying Frankel a higher paycheck?

The ad says that West Palm Beach lost jobs as Frankel’s own taxpayer-funded paycheck soared.