A Picture Worth Only Three Words: "Out of Touch"

“North Carolina’s Elizabeth Dole” ElizaBus Is from Tennessee

GREENSBORO, NC- Elizabeth Dole is reacquainting herself with North Carolina this week, hopping on the “ElizaBus” – more aptly named the “ElizaBush” – to tour cities and towns she hasn’t paid much attention to since she took the ElizaBus around the state this time six years ago.

Just how out of touch is Elizabeth Dole? Right below the bright blue wrap emblazoned with “North Carolina’s Elizabeth Dole” sits a Tennessee license plate.

“Rocky MOUNT is in North Carolina,” said Hagan’s Communications Director Colleen Flanagan. “Rocky TOP is something completely different. North Carolinians know that, but it’s clear Dole is just out of touch. Whether she’s from Kansas, Washington, DC or Tennessee, it’s clear she’s not from North Carolina.”

Senator Dole currently resides at the Watergate in Washington, DC, and she was registered to vote in Kansas for over 25 years, even launching her campaign for president as a Kansan. Dole has voted with President Bush 92% of the time, and a non-partisan group has ranked her America’s 93rd most effective senator. The Winston-Salem Journal recently reported that Dole spent just 13 days in North Carolina in 2006, and only 20 days in the state in 2005. In all, Elizabeth Dole has spent about 13% of her time in North Carolina since being elected six years ago. In addition, Elizabeth Dole was registered to vote in Kansas from 1975 to 2001, when she switched her voting registration to North Carolina just two days after Senator Jesse Helms announced his retirement.

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