Mitt mailer hits rivals on spending
Concord, NH – Mitt Romney lays into his opponents’ economic records in his latest direct mail piece hitting New Hampshire homes this week. Taxes are a HOT issue in the “live free or die” state and the latest pamphlet, obtained by Fox News Tuesday, Romney takes direct aim at his rivals in one of the most pointed missives he has sent out to NH voters so far.
He calls John McCain “big-government, big-tax, big-bureaucracy,” labels Rudy Giuliani “higher taxes and budget-busting spending,” and notes that Mike Huckabee “supported numerous tax increases,” in a glossy pamphlet titled “Taxpayers must take a hard look at the candidates for president.” It adds that Romney has the “experience, vision and values to defend the American taxpayer.”
The mail also makes note that Romney is the “FIRST major Republican candidate to pledge to oppose any attempt to raise taxes on Americans,” a very significant issue for New Hampshire voters. McCain and Giuliani both refuse to take “pledges” and Huckabee signed the pledge after Romney. (See full pamphlet after jump)
–On Huckabee, the mailer notes that he “raised taxes by more than $800 million as the average Arkansans’ tax burden increase 47% and state spending more than doubled.”
–On McCain, it points out that he was “one of only three Republican to twice vote against a $350 billion tax cut” and “voted twice against a permanent repeal of the death tax and has said tax increase are ‘on the table.’”
–On Giuliani, it mentions that he “grew the (NYC’s) budget by 37.6%, and left a budget gap of $3.1 billion,” and “sued Republicans to keep a $360 million commuter tax and called the line item veto unconstitutional fighting it to the Supreme court.”
It should be noted that Huckabee has now taken the spot of Fred Thompson—who was featured in Romney’s last NH “contrast” mailer (on immigration). Thompson has barely campaigned in the state and has turned into a non-factor in New Hampshire.
Tags: direct mail, john mccain, Mike Huckabee, Mitt Romney, New Hampshire, Rudy Giuliani, spending
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Giuliani is the biggest hypocrit. He let New york in a budget deficit even before 9/11.
Daily News May 18, 2001 TWO WARN OF BUDGET SHORTFALLS p27 FRANK LOMBARDI In an unusual joint assault, the state and city controllers teamed up yesterday to warn that Mayor Giuliani is underestimating future budget shortfalls by nearly $2 billion a year. The next mayor could be forced to impose drastic service cutbacks and even major layoffs, state Controller Carl McCall and city Controller Alan Hevesi said at a rare joint news conference.
New York Times May 1, 2001 Giuliani Keeps Foot in Race For Some Selective Tripping B1COL4 ELISABETH BUMILLER Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani’s latest strategy in his newest, most favorite sport — making mischief in the race for his successor — seems to be to bolster the fortunes of one Democratic candidate, City Council Speaker Peter F. Vallone, and to continue to harm another, City Comptroller Alan G. Hevesi… Mr. Hevesi, meanwhile, said yesterday at a news conference that the city was facing a “potential time bomb” because of Mr. Giuliani’s proposed $39.5 billion city budget, which the comptroller said contained tax cuts and large union raises that would leave future mayors with dangerous deficits.
Yeah it’s hard-hitting but only proves that Romney will be a fighter. Go Mitt!
Great, Mitt signed a pledge to Grover Norquist. Who hasn’t he pandered to? This man has no shame…
Please, people of NH, choose a real conservative: Fred or McCain.
Mitt Romney will say anything to anybody to win this nomination and the general election. His flip-flop on abortion to win the Massachusetts governor race was all I needed to know about him. So I’m not surprised for one minute that he is now attacking every Republican under the sun on even more issues he’s flip-flopped on. They raised taxes…he raised fees to the tune of 500 million.
The slick haircut, the boardroom style presentations, the and the rest of his market-researched, image-driven campaign isn’t going to fool the average American voter. Oh, and how is that Bain Capital deal with the Chinese Government going, by the way?
Mitt Romney is as phony and calculating as they come, including Hillary Clinton, and his attacks on the rest of the Republican field on issues he himself has waffled on is clear proof.
Paul, Mitt didn’t flip flop on abortion he converted people can change their mind on issues. Proof of his conversion to pro-life is he didn’t jus tsay it he acted on his beliefs when stem cell research came up as a bill during his term as Governer he vetoed the legislation. We need to recruit more pro-life people not criticize the ones who convert. As someone who was born 2 1/2 months premature I am certain life starts before 9 months.
Since when is it wrong to be a sucessful buisnesmman and CEO of the Olypmics. If our Govt ran more like a buisness we wouldn’t have a defecit. He was sucessful in reversing the defecit in Mass and vetoed hundreds of millions of dollars in spending.
He is a strong family man with values who has worked hard on his campaign. He didn’t do a Huck and wait till the last minute to get in, sput off a bunch of slick sound bites and hope no one has time to take a hard look at your record before the primary elections.
I support Romney but would be fine with Duncan Hunter too, I jsut dont think he has a chance to climb the polls. Huckabee is on the wrong side of the immigration, taxes and crime issues and his record in AK wil get him stomped in the election if he is the nominee. We can’t afford that.
MSKAZ you are completely abusrd in thinking that our government should be run like a business. While in theory this is a very good idea it won’t work in a governmental sense. Our government would have bankrupted multiple times. Senator McCain and Giuliani have said that they won’t take taxes off the table because they understand this fact. McCain’s approach of common sense fiscal conservatism is one of the best approaches to solving this problem. Take away funding from unnecessary programs and move funding into programs that work better and do away with those that don’t work at all. By cutting spending we can deal with the debt by not raising taxes.