Udall tries to link McCain and Pearce to Bush
Posted 8/27/2008 07:42:00 PM
Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Tom Udall used his two minutes as a speaker at the Democratic National Convention tonight to try to link GOP presidential candidate John McCain and Udall's Republican Senate opponent, Steve Pearce, to President Bush. Udall said Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama will win
Udall continued by saying that Bush has set a number of records during his presidency, including record prices for gas, food and college tuition. He said McCain and Pearce want to “try to set new records in middle-class misery.”
Udall used his last few seconds to promote a Web site his campaign started -- MiddleClassSqueeze.com -- which includes a calculator the Udall campaign says tells people how much their food, gas, health-insurance and prescription-drug costs have increased during the Bush presidency.
Udall was one of a handful of Democratic U.S. Senate candidates given the opportunity to briefly address the convention this evening.
Update, 8 p.m.
Here’s video of Udall’s speech:
Labels: 2008 election, Democratic Party, Presidential race, U.S. Senate race, Washington
2 Comments:
What's funny is that Udall doesn't want you to know that most of these increases in daily expenses has come from inflation- something that is not controlled in a free market economy.
What he won't tell you either is that he has hurt those same "middle class" families in Northern New Mexico by slashing funding of LANL funding almost resulting in the loss of thousands of jobs. (Thanks to Domenici, who prevented that from happenning.)
Not to mention that his son-in-law and the husband of his campaign manager has just been appointed State Elections Director.
Mr. Ramirez is off base. Congressman Udall and senator Domenici wre the white Knights. Pearce was nowhere! It is the Republican party (Mr Hobson - Pearce buddy) that wanted to kill LANL. Here is an excerpt fron the Santa Fe New Mexican in 2007:
"Given this track record, do we really believe adding another $192 million will improve security?” Rep. David Hobson, R-Ohio, said. “I would argue our national security would be improved by cutting 1,800 jobs from a facility that can’t seem to manage sensitive information.”
Udall’s amendment would have placed $50 million into the Road Runner Supercomputing Project, $70 million into an infrastructure-maintenance account primarily for weapons programs and $70 million into the science campaign, which helps scientists understand the country’s nuclear weapons stockpile, officials from Udall’s office and the lab explained.
“I disagree with arguments in the House that portrayed efforts by Representative Udall and the delegation to restore weapons funding as a New Mexico jobs protection exercise,” U.S. Sen. Pete Domenici, R-N.M., said in a statement. “The fact is that the House plan represents a seismic shift in American nuclear weapons policy with national and international implications.”
Mr. Ramirez please review your facts about LANL.
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