Freedom's Watch is continuing to tie Kay Hagan to Jimmy Carter.
The Washington-based conservative advocacy group has sent a mailer to North Carolina voters linking Hagan's support for a windfall profit tax on oil companies to the former president's proposal.
"Why is Kay Hagan using Jimmy Carter's failed policies to fix the current energy crisis?" the mailer says.
Inside, it cites an editorial in Investor's Business Daily and a guest column in the Wall Street Journal by Republican Rep. John Shadegg to argue that Hagan would "make America dependent on foreign oil."
"Kay Hagan opposed offshore drilling to make America less reliant on foreign oil," it says.
Hagan initially opposed lifting a ban on offshore drilling, but later backed a failed bipartisan compromise that would have allowed some drilling and encouraged alternative energy.
Previously: Robocall targets Hagan on drilling.
Document(s):
hagan-carter.pdf
Blog RSS feed
Re: Mailer ties Hagan to Carter
And again (x3), Freedom's Watch doesn't give a hoot about energy, immigration, Fannie, Freddie or Chili Mac. They only care about waging war:
http://www.mediatransparency.org/story.php?storyID=216
"Freedom's Watch targeting Iran
After successfully holding the line on Congressional support for the surge in Iraq, wealthy Bush backers are turning their attention and money to drumming up support for military action against Iran.
If the U.S. undertakes military action against Iran, you can credit such longtime neoconservatives as Norman Podhoretz, William Kristol, Michael Ledeen and the swarm of ideologues buzzing about Washington's right wing think tanks. You can also credit Pastor John Hagee and his Christians United for Israel, a Christian Zionist outfit with unbending support for Israel. And credit also the billionaire and multimillionaire founders of Freedom's Watch for helping smooth the way.
While supporting the surge in Iraq was its first public campaign, Freedom's Watch has another target in mind: Iran.
In late September, the group ran a newspaper advertisement calling Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad "a terrorist."
"If you look at how Iraq was sold to the American public, a number of pro-war groups and committees of the same ilk and backing had meetings at the White House, embarked on policy discussion tours around the country with media, and appeared as experts on news shows," Stauber pointed out.
"It should be remembered that Freedom's Watch is run by a White House PR flack [Ari Fleischer] who was key to selling that last war. It is the same script, same images, same messages, and same players. And it is likely to provoke the same response from the mainstream media."