Brown Launches Deceptive Attack on McClintock

Posted on Aug 18, 2008

Placer County Republican Party
Press Release
Bill George – Spokesman
For Immediate Release

Calls for McClintock to Vote for Massive Tax Hike

Roseville CA- August 8, 2008- Charlie Brown once again demonstrated his ignorance of the state’s budgetary process-and the tax-fighting nature of the District he seeks to represent in Congress- when he sent a misleading email to “4th District” residents. In that email he said that Tom McClintock and other Republicans “aren’t doing their jobs” because they have opposed a massive, Democrat-inspired tax scheme. In fact, Republican legislators are working night and day to fight this raid on our pocketbooks.

If the GOP legislators had caved last month, as Charlie Brown wished, the new taxes would have totaled some $8.2 billion. By fighting the proposed plan, the Democrats’ latest rejected budget deal would have cost taxpayers $6.6 billion. So those “non-working Republicans” have already saved taxpayers $1.6 billion and are fighting on.

Brown also stated that legislators are getting paid for “not doing their jobs”; the truth:

  1. Senators Dave Cox, Sam Aanestad (who represent Placer County) and Senator Tom McClintock, our nominee for the 4th CD are NOT getting paid currently.
  2. Charlie Brown defines “doing your job” as completing a state budget. Since the current proposed budget was negotiated between Democrats and the Governor, none of the above three Senators would be making a responsible decision by voting yes.
  3. On the table have been deals involving a massive sales tax increase – the most regressive tax. Sales taxes disproportionately affect the poor. Republicans voted to protect them.
  4. The current budget proposal uses smoke and mirrors to cover a burgeoning California budget deficit.

We are left to believe that Charlie Brown’s labor union supporters must have contacted his campaign and told them to take a shot at Senator McClintock. In so doing, he has taken a shot at all 40 Senators (25 of whom are Brown’s fellow Democrats).

In the same spirit of his campaign parroting Nancy Pelosi’s Use-it-or-Lose-it mantra (regarding why we can’t drill new land that actually has oil in it),

When Brown adopted Pelosi’s use-it-or-lose-it mantra, he did not realize that existing federal law already includes such a provision.

“Sorry Charlie,” or should we say thank you Charlie: you have again demonstrated along with your opposition to lower gas prices that your values of taxing the poor and supporting budget deficits are out of touch with the values of the 4th Congressional District and Placer County.