NRCC Continues Stimulus Argument
The National Republican Congressional Committee is apparently not letting up its attacks against Democratic House members that voted for the economic stimulus bill President Obama signed into law yesterday. The GOP committee went on the air yesterday in Virginia with a TV ad hitting freshman Rep. Tom Perriello (D-Va.) for his vote, and claiming he misled his constituents in his explanation of the bill.
"It's hard to figure out what's more insulting: that Tom Perriello voted to spend over a trillion dollars of taxpayers' hard-earned money on wasteful spending, or that he went back to his district and stretched the truth about what Pelosi's pork-laden package really does," NRCC Communications Director Ken Spain said in a press release.
Perriello knocked off six-term Rep. Virgil Goode (R) -- a one-time Democrat who switched to the Republican Party in 2002 -- by less than 1,000 votes in November. The Charlottesville- and South Side-based 5th Congressional District gave George W. Bush double-digit margins in the 2000 and 2004 presidential elections, however John McCain carried the district by just 2 points.
The NRCC ad tells voters to call Perriello's congressional office and "tell him to quit stretching the truth and wasting our money." Here is the ad:



