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MEMO
Fr: Robby Mook, Campaign Manager, Shaheen for Senate
Da: September 15, 2008
Re: The Real Sununu Record
John Sununu's been sticking with George Bush.
And sticking it to New Hampshire.
Background
John Sununu is currently running ads throughout New Hampshire and Boston claiming that he is an independent who always votes with New Hampshire. But voters deserve to know his real record.
Response
These days, John Sununu is claiming to be independent but the truth is, he's been sticking with George Bush, and sticking it to New Hampshire.
Sununu's running everywhere these days, but he cannot be allowed to run from his record of twelve long years in Washington.
On the economy: On every major vote on Bush's failed economic agenda, devastating this country's economy, Sununu stuck with George Bush and stuck it to New Hampshire.
On jobs: There is a clear contrast between John Sununu and George Bush.
-- Sununu backed George Bush's 45 billion dollars in tax breaks to companies that ship our jobs overseas. He actually vote to reward companies that our moving jobs overseas, instead of creating jobs here. That's 100% wrong.
- -Jeanne Shaheen helped create 66,000 new jobs, kept New Hampshire's tax burden the lowest in the country. Our economy was thriving.
On spending: It's clear John Sununu has gone Washington. Sununu backed George Bush's runaway spending and outrageous giveaways to special interests.
How much has John's Sununu's support for George Bush cost New Hampshire?
--Sununu voted for 17 billion dollars in giveaways to the oil companies. 300 billion to the big drug companies.
--45 billion in tax breaks to companies that ship our jobs overseas.
--Sununu voted with George Bush to double the national debt to over nine and a half TRILLION dollars.
--Now he wants to spend trillions more for privatizing social security and new tax breaks to millionaires.
Add it up: John Sununu...Stuck with George Bush, Stuck it TO New Hampshire.
The Sununu Record
Sununu Voted for $45 Billion in Tax Breaks for Companies that Outsource Jobs. [Senate Vote #63, 3/17/05; Senate Vote #90, 5/11/2004]
Sununu Voted Against Cutting $17 Billion in Subsidies to Big Oil and Gas to Fund Renewable Energy Research. [Senate Vote #146, 6/10/08]
Sununu Voted Four Times Against Allowing Medicare to Negotiate Lower Drug Prices that Could Save Taxpayers $30 Billion A Year. [Senate Vote #132, 4/18/07; Senate Vote #50, 3/15/06; Senate Vote #302, 11/3/05; Senate Vote #60, 3/17/05; Institute for America's Future, The Waste and Inefficiency of the Bush Prescription Drug Plan, 4/4/2007]
Sununu Voted For All 6 of George Bush's Budgets. [House Vote #104, 5/9/01; House Vote #79, 3/20/02; Senate Vote #108, 3/26/03; Senate Vote #58, 3/12/04; Senate Vote #81, 3/17/05; Senate Vote #74, 3/16/06]
Shaheen Created 66.965 Jobs as Governor. Jobs in New Hampshire rose from 541,235 in January 1997 to 607,930 jobs in January 2003 with a gain of 66,965 jobs. [NH Department of Employment Security: 1997 Profile of New Hampshire Counties Cities Towns & Places; Economic Conditions in New Hampshire, August 2003]
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