Lunsford: Middle class being squeezed

Today, Bruce Lunsford issued this press release:

Lunsford Ad Calls For Middle Class Solutions
Says Key to Improving Economy is Cutting Taxes for Families, Small Businesses not Millionaires and Special Interests

LOUISVILLE – Democratic U.S. Senate nominee Bruce Lunsford talks straight to the camera in his latest TV ad, saying “there’s a problem in Washington” and calling for policies that strengthen the middle class.

“While the middle class is being squeezed,” Lunsford says in the spot, “Mitch McConnell has been giving tax breaks to big oil companies and the wealthiest Americans. I have a different idea. Instead of cutting taxes for Big Oil and millionaires, I want to cut taxes for middle class families and small businesses. That’s what people need.”

24 year incumbent Mitch McConnell, who has taken more than $4.3 million from Wall Street and raised $3 million from Big Oil, is widely seen as President Bush’s enabler on everything from energy policy to financial deregulation. The Bush-McConnell economic policies, which favor the wealthy and special interests over middle class Americans, are viewed as the major causes of the current economic crisis.

“This ad highlights the key difference between Bruce Lunsford and Mitch McConnell,” said Lunsford spokesman Cary Stemle. “Lunsford grew up on a working farm in Northern Kentucky and paid his own way through college. He knows how tough it is to make ends meet these days and wants to provide hardworking Kentucky families and small businesses with the tax cuts they need. Mitch McConnell on the other hand has taken millions of dollars from the special interests and fights for their agenda. After 24 years in Washington, Mitch McConnell is not on our side. We need change now more than ever.”

The ad begins airing statewide today on broadcast and cable television.