2008 POLITICAL ADS: NEW HAMPSHIRE SENATE

Service Employees International Union: "Register"

Updated: January 11, 2011 | 11:40 a.m.
October 23, 2008

Producer: Shorr Johnson Magnus

Running Time: 00:30

Debut Date: 10/22/2008

Ad Buy: statewide in New Hampshire

Cost: more than $600,000

Summary: The ad claims that John Sununu has been careless with taxpayers' money while short-changing the middle class.

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Script of "Register" (TV)

ANNOUNCER [v/o]: John Sununu claims he's been careful with our money. But it was Sununu who voted for budgets that doubled the national debt to 10 trillion dollars.

(Text on screen: Source: SConRes83, Vote 74, 3/16/06)

Sununu voted with Bush to give tax breaks to the wealthiest one percent and peanuts to the middle class.

(Text on screen: Source: HR4297, Vote 118, 5/11/06; HR1836, Vote 149, 5/26/01)

Sununu even took a million dollars in campaign contributions from Wall Street, while voting for deregulation that led to our fiscal crisis.

(Text on screen: Source: Center for Responsive Politics, 10/15/08; S900, Vote 570, 11/4/99)

John Sununu: He's already cost us a lot of money. SEIU-COPE is responsible for the content of this advertising.

(Text on screen: Not Authorized By Any Candidate Or Candidate's Committee)

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