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| Club for Growth slams Crist on stimulus |
| 2009-11-06 |
| NRSC boss John Cornyn (R-Tex.) says he won't back candidates in contested GOP primaries -- but the conservative, anti-tax Club for Growth has no such compunctions and seems to be a-courtin' Florida GOP hopeful Marco Rubio. Exhibit A: Their new ad "correcting" Florida Gov. Charlie Crist's assertion that he never endorsed" the stimulus: CFG, which helped force Arlen Specter into the arms of the Democrats, is running the 30-second spot on an unspecified number of TV stations in the Sunshine State. The ad begins with a slow roll of Crist's controversial joint appearance with President Obama earlier this year. In it, Crist says, "We know it's important to pass this stimulus package." The voiceover: "Since Charlie Crist helped pass Barack Obama's spending program, nearly two hundred thousand Floridians have lost their jobs. Unemployment is the highest in decades. Personal income's down. And the deficit in Washington is three times larger." Earlier this week, Crist told CNN that his decision to speak favorably about the $787 billion stimulus while appearing with Obama was based on a pragmatic desire to secure Florida's fair share of the stimulus cash. "I didn't endorse it. I didn't even have a vote on the darned thing," he told Wolf Blitzer on Wednesday. "But I understood that it was going to pass and I wanted to be able to utilize it for the benefit of my fellow Floridians." |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 "We know it's important to pass this stimulus package." "I didn't endorse it." His lips moved. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2009-11-06 07:19 |