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Re: Anti-Dole ad highlights high gas prices

uncgop — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 18:53:08 -0400

Danbesse relax

Have you taken any time to look at the entire bill? There are many components that should not have been supported.

http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d108:SN00014:@@@L&summ2=m&

She is a politician, it is a game of compromise, the difference is that the Democrats call foul every time the Republicans hamper the efforts to impose government intervention into every facet of our lives.

Re: Anti-Dole ad highlights high gas prices

FFC1304 — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 06:32:42 -0400

Is it not true that democrackkks have NOT ALLOWED any domestic oil drilling nor any new refineries to be built in the last 40 years?

Dont like high gas prices? THANK A DEMOCRACKKK!!!

Hagan is LOIWYER TRASH and surely 'majority action' must be too! (who are they?) never heard of those imbeciles...

Re: Anti-Dole ad highlights high gas prices

danbesse — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 18:13:51 -0400

Can someone in Sen. Dole's camp explain what in this ad Sen. Hagan should disavow?

Is it not true that Sen. Dole voted against raising fuel mileage standards in 2003?

Is it not true that Sen. Dole has accepted thousands in contributions from donors associated with the oil and gas industry?

Is it not true that Sen. Dole has voted in favor of the Bush tax breaks for the oil companies?

If all of those are true, this sounds to me like a pretty fair indictment of Sen. Dole's record on an issue highly relevant today.

If Sen. Dole's criticism deals with the influence of outside money on campaigns, perhaps she will lead the way by returning all contributions from out-of-state oil company sources.

Anti-Dole ad highlights high gas prices

ryanteaguebeckwith — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 18:01:08 -0400

A new radio ad attempts to tie U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Dole to high gas prices.

The minute-long ad by liberal 527 group Majority Action is airing on radio stations in Charlotte, Greensboro, Raleigh-Durham and Wilmington this weekend.

Noting the upcoming Fourth of July holiday with the sound of fireworks, it argues that Dole voted against higher fuel mileage standards in 2003.

"Gas prices are over $4 a gallon, and if you’re traveling this holiday weekend one person you can thank for your higher fuel costs is Elizabeth Dole," the narrator says as ominous music plays.

Dole voted against an amendment that year to an energy bill that would have mandated increased mileage standards, though she voted for another amendment that would have directed the Secretary of Transportation to raise them instead.

Dole's rival, state Sen. Kay Hagan, says she is not involved in the ad, and Majority Action says the ad is not intended to influence the Senate race.

But Dole's campaign has called on Hagan to disavow outside advertising.

A transcript after the jump.

Majority Action ad