A robocall attacks Kay Hagan on state spending.
The Associated Builders and Contractors' Free Enterprise Alliance is making the automated calls to North Carolina voters arguing that the Democratic Senate candidate included costly projects in the state budget.
"In the state Senate, Hagan set out securing earmarks, state funding for theater programs," a woman says in the calls. "Her pet projects cost us hundreds of thousands of dollars."
The call makes a link between state spending and earmark reform, an issue being pushed nationally.
As a budget writer from 2003 to 2007, Hagan was known for bringing home the bacon: $1.5 million for an International Civil Rights Museum, $500,000 for Greensboro's Center City Park, $500,000 for the International Furnishings Market in High Point, and $10 million for a joint Millennium campus being developed by the UNC-Greensboro and N.C. A&T State University.
Technically, state legislators do not refer to their spending projects as "earmarks," although the concept is the same.
After the jump, the script.
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The state budget's in peril.
North Carolina families support earmark reform.
But Kay Hagan — in the state Senate, Hagan set out securing earmarks, state funding for theater programs. Her pet projects cost us hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Call Kay Hagan at 336-617-7416 and tell her to support earmark reform.
Paid for by Associated Builders and Contractors Free Enterprise Alliance.
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Re: Robocall targets Hagan on earmarks
Hagan raised our taxes by $5 BILLION , the debt by $7 BILLION...she's outta control...stop her now.