Wednesday, November 24, 2004

District One Race Gets Ugly

Voters living in District 1 have been bombarded with advertisements, most of them negative, in the highly contested Senate race. First, Supersoulty's advocates, Supreme Court Justice King, Chief of Staff Reagan, and PAC Organizer Dubya2004 unleashed ads, criticizing IrishDemocrat for proposing tax hikes. After attacking IrishDemocrat in numerous speeches, Supersoulty released two ads, one attacking IrishDemocrat for missing Senate votes, and then a positive foriegn policy ad. Earlier the night before, the IrishDemocrat campaign team released an ad praising the Senator's work on welfare reform. Today, IrishDemocrat released an ad criticzing Supersoulty for appointing Ronald Reagan to a position during his term as VP, and saying Supersoulty would give corporations kickbacks. All ads have been met with criticism and delight, depending on the viewer.

It seems that these two candidates differ greatly on economics, Supersoulty favors giving businesses more lee-way, which IrishDemocrat supports more government intervention.

Let us hope a debate comes up between these two candidates, it will certainly be interesting.

New Bills Supersoulty Would Propose

ERIE, PENNSYLVANIA- Senate Candidate Supersoulty (F-PA) announced two pieces of legislation he would propose if he gets elected to the Senate early this morning. He proposed the Urban Enterprise Renewal, which would give tax breaks to businesses that relocate into urban areas. Senator Bono (R-NH) criticized it as "pork spending" and his challenger, Sen. IrishDemocrat (D-PA) noted that the bill would not even help most of the District, only parts near Supersoulty's area. However, Supersoulty defended his bill, comparing the city of Buffalo to a city in Eastern Europe right after the Soviet Union collapsed.

His other bill, entitled Opportunity Bill would increase federal funding to distressed areas in Atlasia and grant incentives for students to attend college close to home. It would also grant businesses incentives.

Both bills would be on a ten-year basis, and the details are to be discussed by the Senate.