Politics Inaccurate!
GOP Senate candidate Mike McGavick recently apologized for his work on the 1988 Slade Gorton campaign when he ran an ad saying Gorton’s opponent, Mike Lowry, supported marijuana legalization. “We should have pulled it once evidence mounted that [the ad] was not an accurate reflection of his views,” McGavick wrote on his campaign blog last week.
Well, McGavick just released a radio ad accusing his current opponent, Maria Cantwell, of opposing the sales tax deduction on federal income tax—which brings in about $550 on average for Washington residents a year.
McGavick bases this wild claim on the fact that Cantwell voted against extending the sales tax deduction in a recent smorgasbord GOP bill. Of course she voted against it: The bill also included such GOP class warfare goodies as gutting the estate tax on the richest .2 percent of heirs and imposing a tip deduction on wait staff—which would have socked working class wages down to about $2.15 an hour.
Here’s what’s worse about McGavick’s ad: The reason Washingtonians have been able to save an average of $550 a year is because Cantwell struck a bipartisan deal to extend the sales tax deductibility provision in 2003. Meanwhile, she’s the lead sponsor this year, along with Texas Republican Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, of a bill that would make the sales tax deduction permanent.
Saying Cantwell is against the sales tax deduction certainly isn’t an accurate reflection of Cantwell’s views.
The Democrats have asked accurate! Mike to pull the ad.
Of course, McGavick is being technically! accurate when he says Cantwell voted against the recent sales tax deduction. But he’s also being disingenuous and uncivil.
And we all saw it coming a few weeks back when she voted against it!
What a crock.