Donnelly response to club for growth ad

FACT CHECK: Mourdock’s Special Interest Backers Focused onWashington; Joe Donnelly Focused on IndianaIndianapolis, Ind.--Today, Joe Donnelly’s campaign for U.S. Senate responded to the mostrecent attack ad from the special interest group propping up Richard Mourdock’s campaign,Club for Growth.“The same group of Wall Street billionaires who spent over $2 million against Senator Lugarare yet again trying to buy an election--thank goodness Hoosier voters have the final say,”said Elizabeth Shappell, communications director. “Richard Mourdock and his specialinterest funders are more focused on the Washington Way: more gridlock and morepartisanship, which means more taxes, more debt, and fewer jobs. Here in Indiana, we cansee through these lies. Richard Mourdock spent nearly $3 million of our taxpayer dollars totry to destroy over 100,000 jobs. Joe Donnelly works nonstop with both parties to createjobs, lower the debt, and balance the budget.” Script The TruthV/O: The issue, jobs. The Club for Growth spent nearly $2 Million against Senatorcandidates? Richard Mourdock Richard Lugar. [Washington Post, 5/10/12]and Joe Donnelly.Mourdock opposes job-killing Richard Mourdock spent nearly $3 Million of taxpayertax hikes, regulations, and debts. money on a lawsuit to force Chrysler to liquidate. [News and Tribune, 6/3/12] Mourdock’s budget would still have a deficit of $287 Billion in 2020 and would not run a surplus until 2040. [Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, 3/28/12] Mourdock’s budget would raise taxes on the middle class to pay for tax cuts for millionaires. Families earning less than $30,000 each year would see their tax rates go up and services they depend on slashed as the wealthiest Americans saw their rates fall to the lowest levels since the Herbert Hoover administration. [Center for Budget and Policy Priorities, 4/12/12] Mourdock opposes cracking down on Chinese currency manipulation, an unfair practice that has cost more than

60,000 Hoosier jobs. Mourdock supports the Wall Street front group Club for Growth’s stance on currency manipulation, flip- flopping on the issue to earn their endorsement. Currency manipulation cost Indiana more than 60,000 jobs in between 2001 and 2010 [Economic Policy Institute, 9/20/11; Roll Call, 5/9/12]Donnelly has voted for higher Independent fact checkers have said this is the "Lie of thetaxes, government health care, Year." The government is not taking over medicine, taking overand trillions in new debt. hospitals, or controlling doctors. Americans can stay on their employer-provided health care. They can keep their doctors. The ACA does not have any government-run insurance plan. [PolitiFact, 12/16/10] Joe Donnelly supports a Balanced Budget Amendment. The Evansville Courier & Press reported that Donnelly would vote yes on the Balanced Budget Amendment, writing “U.S. Rep. Joe Donnelly, the only Democratic candidate in the race, said he will be among the “yes” votes when the House on Friday takes up a constitutional amendment that would require Congress to balance the federal budget.” [Evansville Courier & Press 11/17/11] Joe Donnelly has voted against $2.4 trillion in federal spending. [2011 Roll Call 690; 2011 Roll Calls 154, 179, 253, 268; 2009 Roll Calls 369, 502, 623, 625, 636, 991; H.R. 1105 Roll Call #86; 2011 Roll Call #941; 2007 Roll Calls #454,456, 457, 467, 468, 520, 524, 539, 545, 571, 572, 601, 602, 659, 681, 682, 683, 709, 710, 740, 741, 742] Joe Donnelly has returned more than $600,000 to the Treasury from his office budget since being elected to Congress. [disbursements.house.gov, 2007-2011]But what would a vote for Joe Joe Donnelly opposed the President more than 30% of theDonnelly really mean? It would time and broke with his party more than all but sixmean a U.S. Senate controlled by Democrats. [CQ Custom Member Profile, 2/2012; Nationalliberals. More taxes and debt Journal Vote Rankings 2011]from Washington and less jobsfor Indiana. In January 2011, Donnelly did not vote in favor of Nancy Pelosi for Speaker of the House. Instead, he and 10 other Democrats voted in favor of North Carolina Democrat Heath Shuler. [Roll Call, 1/05/11; Politico, 1/05/11; Indianapolis Star, 1/06/11; CQ Today, 1/05/11] Mourdock Allied With Tea Party In Pursuing Chrysler

Lawsuit That Would Have Eliminated More Than 4,000High-Paying Indiana Jobs. In 2009, Mourdock brought alawsuit that challenged Chrysler’s bankruptcy restructuring,risking more than 4,000 high-paying Indiana jobs. Reported theKokomo Tribune, “Allied with the Tea Party, Mourdock hadfought tooth and nail to kill Chryslers bankruptcy reorganization,preferring to see the company -- and more than 4,000 high-payingKokomo jobs -- liquidated.” [Kokomo Tribune, 11/20/10]Center For Automotive Research Study Found That SlowingBankruptcy Settlement Could Endanger More Than 1Million U.S. Jobs, Including More Than 100,000 In Indiana.Reported the Fort Wayne Journal Gazette, “More than 1 millionU.S. jobs - and more than 100,000 in Indiana - are riding onwhether the bankruptcies of Chrysler LLC and General MotorsCorp. are quick and orderly, according to a prominent researchcenters study. . . . The jobs study, by the Center for AutomotiveResearch in Ann Arbor, Mich., says that almost 250,000 U.S.jobs will be lost by 2011 if the Chrysler and GM bankruptcies gosmoothly. It said Michigan, Ohio and Indiana, respectively, willbe hardest hit, with 85,000 losses. But if the bankruptcies areprotracted, consumers will desert the carmakers, creating massivedisruptions in the supply chain and huge job losses, the studysaid. In Indiana, 13,000 jobs would be lost by 2011 under thebest- case scenario. But if the bankruptcies become open-ended,124,000 Hoosier jobs could be lost, the study said.” [Fort WayneJournal Gazette, 6/9/09]

Donnelly response to club for growth ad

by Abdul-Hakim Shabazz on Oct 02, 2012

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