Concord, NH - Today, SEIU announced a new television ad, titled Register," that will air statewide on cable and broadcast throughout New Hampshire. The ad highlights John Sununu's record of support for George W. Bush's economic policies that helped to create America's current economic crisis.

The independent ad buy of more than $600,000 is in response to Sununu's efforts to portray himself as a champion for working families and Main Street businesses after years of voting in support of Bush's tax cuts for the richest Americans and helping to deregulate Wall Street.

"SEIU members are holding Senator Sununu accountable for his record of putting the needs of his campaign contributors in corporate board rooms before the needs of Granite State families," said SEIU Secretary-Treasurer Anna Burger. "A few months of campaign speeches cannot hide years of support for the failed economic agenda of Bush and Cheney."

The ad, produced by Shorr Johnson Magnus, can be viewed below:

The transcript follows:

"Register" - 30 seconds

VO: John Sununu claims he's been careful with our money.

But it was Sununu who voted for budgets that doubled the national debt to ten trillion dollars.

Sununu voted with Bush to give tax breaks to the wealthiest one percent...

...and peanuts to the middle class.

Sununu even took a million dollars in campaign contributions from Wall Street, while voting for deregulation that led to our fiscal crisis.

John Sununu.

He's already cost us a lot of money.

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Sununu voted for budgets that doubled the national debt to ten trillion dollars.

* In 2006, Sununu voted for a budget resolution that would set broad spending and revenue targets over the next five years. The resolution would allow up to approximately $882 billion in discretionary spending for fiscal year 2007. [SConRes83, Vote 74, 3/16/06]

Sununu voted with Bush to give tax breaks to the wealthiest one percent (twice).

* Sununu voted in 2006 in favor of a conference report on the bill that would extend about $70 billion in tax cuts over a five-year period. It also allowed reduced tax rates on capital gains and dividends to be extended through 2010. [HR4297, Vote 118, 5/11/06]
* Sununu also voted in 2001 for the conference report on the bill that would reduce taxes by $1.35 trillion through fiscal 2011 through income tax rate cuts, relief of the "marriage penalty," a phaseout of the federal estate tax, doubling the child tax credit, and providing incentives for retirement savings. A new 10 percent tax rate would be created retroactive to Jan. 1, and taxpayers would get rebate checks this summer of $300 for singles and $600 for couples. The bill would double the $500-per-child tax credit by 2010 and make it refundable; raise the estate tax exemption to $1 million in 2002 and repeal the tax in 2010; increase the standard deduction for married couples to double that of singles, beginning in 2005; and increase annual limits on contributions for Individual Retirement Accounts to $5,000. [HR1836, Vote 149, 5/26/01]

Sununu even took a million dollars in campaign contributions from Wall Street

* According to the Center for Responsive Politics, John Sununu has taken over $2 million dollars in contributions from the Finance, Insurance, and Real Estate Industries while in the Senate. [Center for Responsive Politics, Accessed 10/20/08]

Sununu voted for deregulation that led to our fiscal crisis

* Sununu voted for a deregulation act known as "The Gramm Leach Bliley Act of 1999." When the legislation passed, in 1999, Congressman John Dingell of Michigan warned, "Taxpayers are going to be called upon to cure the failures we are creating tonight and it is going to cost a lot of money, and it is coming. Just be prepared for those events." [Detroit News, 9/23/08; S900, Vote 570, 11/4/99]

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