Producer: McAuliffe Message Media
Running Time: 00:30
Debut Date: 05/23/2008
Ad Buy: not available
Cost: not available
Summary: The ad illustrates Steelman's record of "protecting taxpayer money" and says she has the "guts" to be Missouri's governor.
Script of "Guts" (TV)
ANNOUNCER [v/o]: What’s it take to be governor? Guts. Missouri experience.
(Text on screen: Sarah Steelman; Missouri Experience; www.sarahsteelman.com)
When powerful politicians demanded millions in state tax dollars for their sweetheart business deals, Treasurer Sarah Steelman’s "steely resolve" stopped them, protecting taxpayer money.
(Text on screen: Columbia Daily Tribune, 3/2/07)
When a company on a state building project hired illegal immigrants with criminal violations, Sarah Steelman blocked state tax credits, forced the company off the job -- replacing illegal workers with new Missouri jobs.
(Text on screen: Steelman: "the use of illegal immigrants was inexcusable…" -- St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 2/17/06; Steelman: Tax credits may be lost over illegal workers -- St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 3/16/06)
Sarah Steelman -- Guts. Missouri experience. -- What it takes to be governor.
(Text on screen: Paid for by Friends of Steelman; Stephen Gaunt, Treasurer)
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