New Ad in Maryland
ClubforGrowth.Net Releases Ad in MD-1
Calls on Gilchrest to Change Spending Habits
Washington – ClubforGrowth.Net is airing television and radio ads in Maryland’s First Congressional District, urging American taxpayers to call Representative Wayne Gilchrest and tell him to stop spending their tax dollars on wasteful pork projects.
Running on cable TV and radio stations throughout the First District, the ad highlights some of the more outrageous projects Rep. Gilchrest wanted to spend taxpayer money on, including:
- Alaska's “Bridge to Nowhere” (Roll Call #453, 07/29/05)
- Viagra subsidies (Roll Call #312, 06/24/05)
- A Texas Zoo (Roll Call #702, 07/24/07)
- California’s Mule and Packers Museum (Roll Call #700, 07/24/07)
In addition to these projects, Wayne Gilchrest has supported a plethora of other special-interest earmarks, evidenced by the 0% score he received on the Club for Growth’s 2007 RePORK Card. In 2006, he also scored a 0%, voting against all 19 of Rep. Jeff Flake’s anti-pork amendments. Some of the other pork projects he supported include: A fish laboratory, the “perfect Christmas tree” project, a New York ballet theatre, a South Carolina aquarium, a Kansas prison museum, a Missouri jazz museum, and a Lobster Institute at the University of Maine. He also voted to override every Bush veto on spending (Roll Call #982, 10/18/07; #1040, 11/06/07; #1122, 11/15/07).
“Although Gilchrest tells taxpayers that he is a fiscal conservative, it is clear that he not willing to defend their hard-earned money,” said ClubforGrowth.Net President Pat Toomey. “With battles over spending looming in Congress, it is important for taxpayers to know about Gilchrest’s record so that they can call his office and demand a change. Taxpayers have a right to know why Rep. Gilchrest is spending their hard-earned money on mule museums and bridges to nowhere.”
Produced by Red Sea LLC, the radio ad (MP3 file) began running Tuesday, November 27 and the television ad begins running Wednesday, November 28 television. Ad citations are here and here (PDF files).
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