Friday October 24, 2008
AD WATCH: IN NEW AD, SUNUNU TRIES ONCE AGAIN TO DISTRACT VOTERS FROM RECORD OF RECKLESS SPENDING IN WASHINGTON
(Manchester, NH) – In response to John Sununu's latest desperate attempt to distract New Hampshire voters from his record of walking in lockstep with George Bush, the Jeanne Shaheen for Senate campaign released the following ad watch to set the record straight on John Sununu's reckless spending of taxpayer dollars in Washington, DC.
"For the last eight years, John Sununu has walked in lockstep with George Bush every step of the way, voting for every Bush budget, giving billions to special interests and big oil companies, supporting the failed economic policies that led to the greatest economic crisis since the Great Depression," said Kate Bedingfield, Jeanne Shaheen for Senate communications director. "As Governor, Jeanne Shaheen proposed a balanced budget every year she is in office, created more than 66,000 new jobs and kept New Hampshire's tax burden the lowest in the nation. In the Senate, Jeanne Shaheen will return to the policy of PAYGO budgeting, stop the billions in giveaways to oil companies and companies that send American jobs overseas and put an end to the no-bid contracts in Iraq. New Hamsphire voters deserve a new direction and a new senator in Washington who will put our fiscal house back in order."
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Bush-Sununu Turned Largest Budget Surplus in History, $236 Billion, to Largest Budget Deficit in History, $455 Billion. [Congressional Budget Office, US Treasury Department]
Bush-Sununu Raised National Debt from $5.4 Trillion to $10.5 Trillion. [National Debt Clock]
Sununu Supported $850 Billion Wall St Bailout that Failed to Provide Taxpayer Protections and Included Hundreds of Millions in Pork Barrel Spending. [Senate Vote #213, 10/1/08]
Sununu Proposed a Bill to Privatize Social Security that Would Have Added $2.1 Trillion to the National Debt [Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, 4/26/05]
Sununu Voted To Raise Debt Limit Seven Times. [Senate Vote 354, 9/27/07; Senate Vote 54, 3/16/06; Senate Vote 76, 3/17/05; Senate Vote 213, 11/17/04; Senate Vote 57, 3/11/04; Senate Vote 202, 5/23/03; House Vote 279, 6/27/02]
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Announcer: "Jeanne Shaheen doubled state spending."
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Shaheen Proposed Balanced Budget Every Year She Was in Office. [Governor's Executive Budget Summary Fiscal Years 1998-2003]
Shaheen's Budgets Rejected Hundreds of Millions in General Fund Spending Requested by State Agencies. [Governor's Executive Budget Summary Fiscal Years 1998-2003]
Shaheen Created 66,695 Jobs As Governor. [NH Department of Employment Security: 1997 Profile of New Hampshire Counties Cities Towns & Places; Economic Conditions in New Hampshire, August 2003]
Under Governor John H. Sununu, State General Fund Spending Grew an Average of 13.8 Percent Annually; Under Judd Gregg, Spending Grew 7.4 Percent; Under Governor Shaheen, Spending Grew 6.9 Percent. [Fiscal years 1983-1992, Table of Undesignated Fund Balance-General Fund for Last Ten Fiscal Years, 1992 Comprehensive Annual Financial Report, Dept. of Admin. Services, Div. of Accounting Services; fiscal years 1993-2004, Table of Undesignated Fund Balance-General Fund for Last Ten Fiscal Years, 2004 Comprehensive Annual Financial Report, Dept. of Admin. Services, Div. of Accounting Services, http://admin.state.nh.us/
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