The Ed Gillespie for Senate Campaign today began airing its second TV ad: Blank Check. The ad can be found on YouTube at http://youtu.be/v7YCGQGjzBc
Speaking about the ad, Campaign Manager Chris Leavitt said, “Virginians are ready for a new direction from Mark Warner’s misguided policies, voting with President Obama 97 percent of the time. Ed’s economic growth agenda would create jobs, raise take home pay, hold down health care costs and reduce energy prices.”
Blank Check: 30 seconds
Narrator: Mark Warner votes with President Obama 97 percent of the time. Policies that kill jobs, lower wages and make health care and energy more expensive.
Time for a new direction.
Ed Gillespie: I’m Ed Gillespie. I’ll be a leader for policies that create jobs and expand opportunity for everyone.
Narrator: Ed Gillespie’s new direction: Economic growth, good-paying jobs, more affordable energy. Replacing Obamacare, that’s killing jobs and lowering wages.
Ed Gillespie: I’ll be a check on President Obama, not a blank check for him.
BACKGROUND:
Ed Gillespie has put out his agenda for economic growth that would create jobs, grow our economy, make energy more affordable and replace Obamacare. Ed’s economic growth agenda is available at http://edforsenate.com/eg2/
Mark Warner has voted with President Obama 97 percent of the time since taking office. That’s more often than the average for Democratic Senators.
PolitiFact Virginia: Warner, as it turns out, did vote with the president’s wishes 97 of the time both last year and since entering the Senate in 2009. That’s slightly higher than the average for all Democratic senators, who backed Obama when he clearly stated a position 96 percent of the time last year and 95.4 percent of the time since 2009.
Mark Warner voted for the Affordable Care Act in Dec. 2009.
http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=111&session=1&vote=00396
In March, 2010, Mark Warner voted to keep the medical device tax in Obamacare.
(H.R. 4872, CQ Vote #79: Motion agreed to 56-42: R 0-40; D 54-2; I 2-0, 3/24/10, Warner Voted Yea)
A recent study found “a total job loss due to the tax of as many as 165,000 jobs.”
http://advamed.org/res.download/417
Wages for jobs added since Mark Warner and President Obama took office pay an average 23% less than the jobs lost during the recession, according to a report from the U.S. Conference of Mayors released last month:
Jobs gained during the economic recovery from the Great Recession pay an average 23% less than the jobs lost during the recession according to a new report released today by The U.S. Conference of Mayors (USCM) under the leadership of President Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson. The annual wage in sectors where jobs were lost during the downturn was $61,637, but new jobs gained through the second quarter of 2014 showed average wages of only $47,171. This wage gap represents $93 billion in lost wages.
http://www.usmayors.org/pressreleases/uploads/2014/0811-release-metroeconwagegap.pdf
The Congressional Budget Office estimated a 1% reduction in aggregate compensation because of the Affordable Care Act, once its major provisions go into effect.
http://www.cbo.gov/sites/default/files/cbofiles/attachments/45010-Outlook2014_Feb.pdf
The CBO estimates that the Affordable Care Act will mean 2.5 million fewer full-time workers in our economy.
http://www.cbo.gov/sites/default/files/cbofiles/attachments/45010-breakout-AppendixC.pdf
The National Federation of Independent Business estimates that Obamacare’s Health Insurance Tax reduces future private sector employment by 146,000 to 262,000 jobs in 2022, with 59 percent of job losses falling on small businesses.
http://www.nfib.com/article/the-small-business-health-insurance-tax-51231/
In April 2009, Jim Webb and a dozen other Senate Democrats joined Republicans to create a 60-vote point of order against any legislation that causes significant job losses in manufacturing-dependent or coal-dependent regions. Mark Warner voted instead with his Democratic leadership.
(S. Con. Res. 13, CQ Vote #142: Adopted 54-44: R 41-0; D 13-42; I 0-2, 4/2/09, Warner Voted Nay)
In 2009, Mark Warner said, “The most significant thing we can do is send the market signal that either directly through a carbon tax or indirectly through Cap and Trade, we are going to put a price on carbon.”
http://edforsenate.com/release-mark-warner-says-cap-trade-significant-thing-can/
In April 2011, Warner voted against an amendment that would prevent the EPA from regulating carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases for two years. Jim Webb co-sponsored that amendment and warned at the time that, “This sweeping authority at the hands of the EPA could endanger thousands of jobs in our fragile economy.”
(S. 493, CQ Vote #53: Rejected 12-88: R 3-44; D 9-42; I 0-2, 4/6/11, Warner Voted Nay, Jim Webb co-sponsored and voted for the amendment)
In March 2012, when eight of his fellow Senate Democrats voted to delay the implementation of EPA emission standards for industrial and commercial boilers, Mark Warner voted with his party line instead, putting thousands of jobs at risk.
(S. 1813, CQ Vote #30: R 44-1; D 8-43; I 0-2, 3/8/12, Warner Voted Nay)
National Association of Manufacturers: “This is a harsh, inflexible rule that will cost jobs, hurt global competitiveness and may discourage projects that could otherwise lead to environmental improvements.”
(National Association of Manufacturers, “EPA’s Boiler MACT Rule Will Cost Manufacturing Jobs,” Press Release, 2/23/11)
The Council of Industrial Boiler Owners predicted the EPA’s Boiler MACT Rule would put 230,000 jobs at risk. “During this critical time in our nation’s economic recovery, manufacturers simply cannot afford another costly and burdensome regulation that will put 230,000 jobs at risk, according to the Council of Industrial Boiler Owners.” (National Association Of Manufacturers, “Manufacturers Welcome House Vote To Rein In The EPA,” Press Release, 10/13/11)
In 2013, when 8 of his fellow Senate Democrats voted to make it more difficult to pass a job-killing carbon tax, Mark Warner voted with Harry Reid against the measure to protect jobs from a carbon tax.
(S. Con. Res. 8, CQ Vote #59: Motion rejected by a vote of 53-46: R 45-0; D 8-44; I 0-2, 3/22/13, Warner Voted Nay)
The National Association of Manufactures estimated that a carbon tax could destroy up to 66,000 jobs in Virginia over the next decade and increase the cost of electricity by 21 percent.
(National Association of Manufacturers, “Adverse Economic Impacts Of A Carbon Tax In Virginia,” www.nam.org, Accessed 12/12/13)
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