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For Immediate Release
Contact: Don Adams, 215.620.3055
Tea Party PAC Questions Shapiro TV Ad;
Notes that Shapiro Also Courted Tea Party
Cheltenham, PA (November 4, 2011) -- The Independence Hall Tea Party PAC issued the following statement, today, regarding Montgomery County Democrat Party Commissioner candidate Josh Shapiro's TV commercial mocking the Tea Party movement and deriding one of his opponents as "the only candidate who met with the Tea Party" while he himself had attended a Tea Party event last year.
"Josh Shapiro, who has publicly courted the Tea Party himself, is attacking one of his campaign opponents in a TV ad, ridiculing her as 'the only candidate to meet with the tea party' and adding that 'she and the Tea Party shared values,'" said Montgomery County resident and PAC president, Don Adams.
"The Independence Hall Tea Party would like to ask Shapiro specifically which Tea Party values he objects to.
"Is it opposition to higher taxes? Absolutely not.
"If so, Shapiro's objection would be understandable since, as State Representative,
he has supported raising our state taxes by over a billion dollars.
"Is it opposition to higher spending? No way.
"Shapiro has voted to increase State spending by 21%.
"Is it honesty? You be the judge.
"Contrary to public statements that his opponent was 'the only candidate to meet with the tea party' -- Shapiro, himself, met with a local Tea Party group in Glenside on October 14, 2010.
"Josh Shapiro's attacks on the Tea Party movement are just an intellectually baseless and crass attempt to divert attention away from his own incompetent policies and lack of integrity.
"More taxes, more spending, more government; less income, less freedom and
fewer jobs--that is Josh Shapiro's platform for Montgomery County and Pennsylvania."
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