Producer: OnMessage, Inc.
Running Time: 00:30
Debut Date: 09/17/2008
Ad Buy: not disclosed
Cost: $531,800
Summary: The NRSC hits Jeanne Shaheen on taxes.
Script of "Insanity"
ANNOUNCER [v/o]: As governor, Jeanne Shaheen increased spending by a billion dollars.
(Text on screen: NH Comprehensive Annual Financial Reports. FY 97-03)
Signed the first statewide property tax.
(Text on screen: Washington Times 5/1/99)
And even agreed to sign a state income tax.
(Text on screen: Concord Monitor 2/10/02)
But now her campaign says Shaheen was never open to an income tax, calling those claims "pure insanity."
(Text on screen: Shaheen spokesman; Union Leader 9/11/08)
Wait a minute. The press reported it, saying Shaheen "agreed to sign an income tax."
(Text on screen: Concord Monitor; The Washington Post; "...Shaheen said...she does not rule out a broadbase income tax..." Union Leader 5/24/01)
Shaheen's not being honest.
An income tax in New Hampshire? Now that's insanity.
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(Text on screen: Paid For By The National Republican Senatorial Committee And Not Authorized By Any Candidate Or Candidate's Committee. www.NRSC.org)
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