Hagan Campaign to Dole: Actions Speak Louder Than Words

June 19, 2008

GREENSBORO, NC- In a complete about-face, Elizabeth Dole’s campaign said yesterday she was in favor of ending tax incentives to Big Oil and Gas and instead reinvest those funds into renewable energy. “We need to stop the 13 billion dollars in incentives to big oil and gas companies. We’ve got to stop that. But we’ve got to use those funds instead and invest them into renewable energies,” read a statement from her campaign to Raleigh-based WTVD.

This is a dramatic shift from Senator Dole’s long-held position, which has included voting to give Big Oil and Gas those billions of dollars in incentives just last week and against investments in renewable energy just two days ago. The comment was used in a story about high gas prices and State Senator and U.S. Senate Candidate Kay Hagan’s (D-Guilford) gas station stop in Raleigh, where Hagan spoke with consumers about the very real toll Washington’s inaction and short-sightedness has reaped on middle class families across Washington. Kay will make a similar stop at a gas station in Wilmington on Friday.

“Elizabeth Dole has completely changed her tune and decided that it is altogether too much to ask middle class families to pay upwards of $4 a gallon for gas,” said Hagan Campaign Communications Director Colleen Flanagan. “But the phrase ‘Actions speak louder than words,’ comes to mind. Dole has been in Washington for more than 40 years, as part of three Republican Administrations and now, five years and five months into her six year term, she’s decided that we need to invest in renewable energy? It seems fairly disingenuous to talk about investing in renewable energy after voting against numerous measures that could actually do something about it.

“People in North Carolina and across the country want someone who listens to them and actually proposes a way to fix what’s not working. Kay is on the ground, going from one end of the state to the other, talking to voters who don’t believe the rhetoric Elizabeth Dole is pushing because they know the reality all too well.”

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