Bush on Kerry on California

Thought you might want to see what I received from the Bush campaign today:

TOP 10 REASONS... John Kerry is WRONG for California "If the Kerry campaign is going to say privately that his numbers don't add up, then John Kerry also needs to come clean with the American people on how he is going to pay for his $1.7 trillion in new government spending." ---Steve Schmidt, Bush-Cheney '04 Spokesman #1 DESTROYING CALIFORNIA JOBS Kerry has consistently voted against California's defense industry and its employees. John Kerry voted for the cancellation of the B-1B Bomber and against funding the program at least four times. Kerry voted against funding of the F/A-18 Hornet, which is built in El Segundo and Hawthorne, at least eight times. John Kerry proposed voted against funding the C-17 Globemaster produced in Long Beach, at least six times. Kerry even voted against the very effective Predator Unmanned Vehicle at least four times. The Predator is built at factories in Rancho Bernardo, Adelanto, El Mirage and Gray Butte. #2 RAISING CALIFORNIA'S GAS TAXES Kerry supported higher gas taxes 11 times and supported one proposal hiking the price as much as 50 cents for a single gallon. #3 WEAKENING HOMELAND AND BORDER SECURITY John Kerry led the fight against President Bush's creation of the Department of Homeland Security. Kerry skipped the vote to fund Homeland Security in 2003. That legislation included $4.9 billion for border protection, and $2.8 billion for immigrations and customs enforcement. #4 AGAINST SMALL BUSINESS Kerry has consistently voted for higher taxes that take money from over 3 million of California's small business taxpayers. These small companies employ more than half of California's workforce and were responsible for adding 80% of the state's new jobs. Over 99% of California businesses are considered small. Kerry has also voted against capping punitive damages for small businesses at least five times. #5 KERRY'S TAX GAP As a U.S. Senator, Kerry has supported higher taxes 350 times. Kerry's plan would create a $1 trillion tax gap between his spending increases and his tax increases. Given his pledge to cut the deficit in half over four years, his $1 trillion tax gap will only go up and will result in new taxes for every American. #6 VOTING FOR HIGHER CAPITAL GAINS TAXES John Kerry has voted for higher capital gains taxes at least 15 times. He voted against reducing the capital gains tax by half, from 28% to 14%. Kerry even opposed lowering the capital gains rate for low income earners to 7.5%. #7 VOTING FOR INTERNET TAXES Kerry voted to allow states to continue taxing internet access after the 1998 tax freeze took effect. Then John Kerry voted against a permanent suspension on taxing internet access. #8 WEAKENING THE PATRIOT ACT Kerry wants to weaken the Patriot Act, which gives law enforcement the same tools against terrorists already available against drug dealers and organized crime. #9 VOTING AGAINST TROOP FUNDING Kerry voted against the $87 billion Iraq supplemental legislation. These funds provided body armor and other force protection measures such as armored Humvees and electronic jammers, as well as health care for reservists, support for families and meals for injured soldiers. #10 VOTING AGAINST INTELLIGENCE FUNDING In 1995, Kerry proposed a bill gutting $1.5 billion from the intelligence budget. Kerry introduced a bill that would reduce the Intelligence budget by $300 million in each of fiscal years 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, and 2000. There were no cosponsors of Kerry's bill, which never made it to the floor for a vote.

Amazing. Can't wait to see how Kerry counters this.