Libertarian candidate swings at Chambliss’ record and debate dodges
September 10, 2008 at 12:43 pm by Thomas Wheatley in NewsAllen Buckley, the Libertarian Party candidate for U.S. Sen. Saxby Chambliss‘ seat, came out with a one-two punch today against the Republican incumbent, accusing him of a shoddy voting record and sidestepping debates in which he previously agreed to participate with Buckley and Jim Martin, the former state lawmaker and Democratic challenger.
First, the debate issue. Jim Galloway wrote a good run-down of events over at the AJC’s Political Insider. In essence, the three camps agreed to eight to ten debates both in Georgia and Washington, D.C. in order to accommodate Chambliss. Buckley now says Chambliss has pulled back, and he’s accusing the well-funded incumbent of trying to carpetbomb the airwaves with commercials rather than defend his record with evidence.
As for Chambliss’ voting record, Buckley sent out a press release this morning accusing him of having “the record of being a liberal spender.”
Examples of that spending are posted after the jump.
LIBERTARIAN U.S. SENATE CANDIDATE BUCKLEY CHALLENGES
SAXBY CHAMBLISS TO SPECIFY ONE SINGLE SUBSTANTIAL SPENDING CUT HE HAS PROPOSED
Atlanta, Georgia – September 10, 2008
In Jim Wooten’s column in yesterday’s edition of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Mr. Wooten said that Saxby Chambliss has criticized Barack Obama as being one of the most liberal senators.
Mr. Chambliss has a record of being a liberal spender.
Some of the spending increases for which Mr. Chambliss has voted include:
• addition of Medicare Part D, which Comptroller General David Walker called “probably the most fiscally irresponsible piece of legislation since the 1960s;”
• 43 percent increase in federal spending over the 2001 to 2007 time frame;
• farm subsidies and other pork barrel spending – while criticizing Georgia House of Representatives members for taking a ‘no pork’ pledge;
• expansion of the U. S. Department of Education;
• an increase in federal spending of $1.863 trillion to $2.655 trillion and more than $1,500,000,000,000 of additional debt over the 2001 – 2006 time frame; and
• housing bail-outs and an increase in the debt limit to $10.6 trillion.
Allen Buckley, the Libertarian Party’s candidate for U. S. Senate, makes the following challenge: “The GAO tells us we’re headed for an economic disaster, with deficits ‘spiraling out-of-control’. I challenge Saxby Chambliss to specify to the voters of Georgia and the media a single significant decrease in spending he has proposed.”
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