The Diedrich campaign issued this press release:
Rep. Stephanie Herseth’s premier ad contains several misleading statements. A narrator claims that Herseth has held to her campaign promise to be an “independent voice” yet Herseth voted over 75 percent of the time with one of the U.S. House of Representatives’ most liberal member, Rep. Jerrold Nadler of New York, whom Herseth declared to be her mentor.
“That doesn’t sound very independent,” said Jessica R. Towhey, Diedrich’s press secretary.
The ad goes onto declare Herseth a fiscal conservative yet within three weeks of arriving in Congress, she voted for a massive tax hike that would increase taxes by $18.9 billion next year. That’s equivalent to a $269 billion tax hike over the next decade.
“That doesn’t sound very fiscally conservative,” Towhey said.
The ad mentions that Herseth bucked her own party by voting for President Bush’s forest policy yet fails to mention that when given the opportunity to fund firefighters in national parks, she instead chose to increase funding for the National Endowment for the Arts.
“It’s going to be awfully difficult to keep those forests healthy when the firefighters lack the sufficient equipment to extinguish forest fires,” Towhey said.
Furthermore, the ad neglects to mention that Herseth’s “independent voice” failed to secure agriculture research dollars that support South Dakota’s number one industry. South Dakota was just one of two states that received no ag research funding.
Her “independent voice” also failed to convince a majority of her own party to support mandatory COOL during a vote in the House Agriculture Committee.
“That doesn’t sound very effective,” Towhey concluded.
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