I’ve received a few emails over the course of the past month from the National Republican Congressional Committee denouncing Democratic U.S. Rep. Murphy.
Today’s installment rips Murphy for supporting the stimulus package. “One long year after House Democrats passed their trillion dollar ‘stimulus’ boondoggle, Americans are facing daunting double-digit unemployment numbers and a skyrocketing deficit,” said NRCC Communications Director Ken Spain said in the email. “Rather than putting the brakes on his party’s reckless tax-and-spend policies, Murphy has continued to rubber-stamp their runaway spending, further pushing the federal deficit into the red.”
Here’s the problem: the focus of the attack is Scott Murphy, a Democrat from New York’s 20th District, which stretches from Rhinebeck to Lake Placid, not Chris Murphy, a Democrat from Connecticut’s 5th District.
“After a year of punishing middle-class families with mountains of debt fueled by partisan government giveaways, New York families deserve to know: Would Scott Murphy vote for the ‘stimulus’ today if he had the chance?” the NRCC asks.
Perhaps the good people of New York will weigh in. In the meantime, the NRCC might want to consult this before sending out another news release.