A new robocall targets Kay Hagan on offshore drilling.
Freedom's Watch, a Washington-based conservative advocacy group, is making automated calls to North Carolina voters about the Democratic Senate candidate's stance on energy.
"Do you think we should return to the energy policies of the 1970s, with Americans facing skyrocketing energy costs and increasing reliance on foreign oil?" a male narrator says. "Kay Hagan apparently does. Her energy plan uses Jimmy Carter's failed policy of 30 years ago!"
The robocall also says that Hagan opposed "new domestic energy production" that would make the U.S. less reliant on foreign oil.
Hagan opposed offshore drilling this summer, but she switched positions in August, backing a Senate bill that would lift the ban as part of a broader package to promote alternative energy and conservation.
U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Dole previously opposed offshore drilling in North Carolina, but switched positions in June and also backed the compromise bill.
After the jump, the script.
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Hi. I'm calling from Freedom's Watch with an important message about energy.
Do you think we should return to the energy policies of the 1970s, with Americans facing skyrocketing energy costs and increasing reliance on foreign oil?
Kay Hagan apparently does. Her energy plan uses Jimmy Carter's failed policy of 30 years ago! Not only that, she opposed new domestic energy production to make America less dependent on dangerous and costly foreign oil.
Call Kay Hagan at 919-733-5856.
Tell her you want a 21st century energy plan that will actually lower gas prices and make us less reliant on foreign oil.
Paid for by Freedom's Watch, 202-379-3742.
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Re: Robocall targets Hagan on drilling
Again, this is not about energy, or immigration, or whether Kay supports fluffy bunnies or not. It's about war, and Freedom's Watch's fear that Kay Hagan won't be a "kill 'em all and let God sort 'em out" Senator like Dole is.
http://abcnews.go.com/WN/Story?id=3512978&page=1
"Former White House spokesman Ari Fleischer, one of the group's board of directors, said the group was formed to provide a counter-argument to the successful anti-war voices.
"There's been a three-year silence from conservatives and others who believe in peace through strength," Fleischer told ABC News. "The cavalry is coming, we're going to help to get that message out," he said."
They're using these other issues right now because the majority of folks (even here in N.C.) are tired of the Iraq war and want us to get out, and bringing up war stuff would kill Liddy Dole's chances. So it's red herring season, and these people are calling your home under false pretenses.