Mitch McConnell On Bruce Lunsford And Gas Prices.
Read the press release below:
McConnell Senate Committee 2008
For Immediate Release: Contact: Justin Brasell
Friday, July 18, 2008 (502) 458-8400
McConnell Launches New Television Ad
After enduring months of negative attacks, Senator McConnell is responding aggressively on the #1 issue facing Kentucky voters.
Louisville, Kentucky
Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell today announced that his campaign has launched a new ad focused on Bruce Lunsford’s record on gas prices.
In 1980 as Governor John Y. Brown’s chief legislative liaison1, Bruce Lunsford
successfully lobbied to change the way Kentucky taxes gasoline, changing it from a flat amount to indexing the tax to the wholesale cost of gasoline. This means that as the cost of gas increases the tax paid by Kentuckians automatically increases as well.
Why is this an issue now? Not only is the cost of gas the top issue on voters’ minds, but Bruce Lunsford has made it a top issue in his campaign, citing his work to change the gas tax in Kentucky as one of his signature achievements in his public career, both speaking about it publicly and touting it on his campaign website as reasons Kentuckians should vote for him.
In a video released by his campaign, Lunsford boasts to a Bowling Green audience in May of this year, “We changed the way we tax gas in this state that gave us a budget that could grow.” And on his campaign website he said he “worked with state legislators to change the gas tax from 9 cents to 9 percent.” Remarkably, he even boasts of calling his father to revel in the achievement.
What has this meant for Kentucky motorists? The gas tax has increased automatically
each year since 2004, and just went up again on July 1st of this year. With gas prices already too high, Lunsford apparently believes it’s appropriate to burden citizens at the pump even more.
“After months and months of negative attacks, we are today beginning to set the record straight,” said McConnell campaign manager Justin Brasell.
In addition to constant attacks from Lunsford in his TV ads – even during his primary
race – and in his daily campaign rhetoric, Senator McConnell has been the victim of misleading attacks on the airwaves and news pages from Lunsford allies for more than a year. The Courier-Journal and The Herald-Leader have combined run 139 negative editorial and opinion pieces against Senator McConnell since he became Republican Leader. The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, Americans Against Escalation in Iraq, Campaign Action Fund, Campaign to Defend America, MoveOn.org, Americans United for Change, Campaign Money Watch, and the Sierra Club are all partisan, liberal front groups aligned with Bruce Lunsford that have run TV or radio advertising against Senator McConnell since last summer.
“Senator McConnell has a record of accomplishment of which Kentuckians can be proud,
and our campaign will aggressively defend against false and misleading attacks. This ad will be the first step in letting voters know the truth about Bruce Lunsford’s record,” Brasell said.
Watch the ad and learn more at www.lunsfordgastax.com.
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Authorized and paid for by McConnell Senate Committee 2008
1 Courier-Journal, March 27, 1980
McConnell Senate Committee 2008
For Immediate Release: Contact: Justin Brasell
Friday, July 18, 2008 (502) 458-8400
McConnell Launches New Television Ad
After enduring months of negative attacks, Senator McConnell is responding aggressively on the #1 issue facing Kentucky voters.
Louisville, Kentucky
Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell today announced that his campaign has launched a new ad focused on Bruce Lunsford’s record on gas prices.
In 1980 as Governor John Y. Brown’s chief legislative liaison1, Bruce Lunsford
successfully lobbied to change the way Kentucky taxes gasoline, changing it from a flat amount to indexing the tax to the wholesale cost of gasoline. This means that as the cost of gas increases the tax paid by Kentuckians automatically increases as well.
Why is this an issue now? Not only is the cost of gas the top issue on voters’ minds, but Bruce Lunsford has made it a top issue in his campaign, citing his work to change the gas tax in Kentucky as one of his signature achievements in his public career, both speaking about it publicly and touting it on his campaign website as reasons Kentuckians should vote for him.
In a video released by his campaign, Lunsford boasts to a Bowling Green audience in May of this year, “We changed the way we tax gas in this state that gave us a budget that could grow.” And on his campaign website he said he “worked with state legislators to change the gas tax from 9 cents to 9 percent.” Remarkably, he even boasts of calling his father to revel in the achievement.
What has this meant for Kentucky motorists? The gas tax has increased automatically
each year since 2004, and just went up again on July 1st of this year. With gas prices already too high, Lunsford apparently believes it’s appropriate to burden citizens at the pump even more.
“After months and months of negative attacks, we are today beginning to set the record straight,” said McConnell campaign manager Justin Brasell.
In addition to constant attacks from Lunsford in his TV ads – even during his primary
race – and in his daily campaign rhetoric, Senator McConnell has been the victim of misleading attacks on the airwaves and news pages from Lunsford allies for more than a year. The Courier-Journal and The Herald-Leader have combined run 139 negative editorial and opinion pieces against Senator McConnell since he became Republican Leader. The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, Americans Against Escalation in Iraq, Campaign Action Fund, Campaign to Defend America, MoveOn.org, Americans United for Change, Campaign Money Watch, and the Sierra Club are all partisan, liberal front groups aligned with Bruce Lunsford that have run TV or radio advertising against Senator McConnell since last summer.
“Senator McConnell has a record of accomplishment of which Kentuckians can be proud,
and our campaign will aggressively defend against false and misleading attacks. This ad will be the first step in letting voters know the truth about Bruce Lunsford’s record,” Brasell said.
Watch the ad and learn more at www.lunsfordgastax.com.
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Authorized and paid for by McConnell Senate Committee 2008
1 Courier-Journal, March 27, 1980
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