The GF Herald on the Senate Race Issues
The Grand Forks Herald has a short article on the “contrasts” between Senator Kent Conrad and Dwight Grotberg.
If you asked the Conrad campaign to write this article, this is exactly what you’d get.
—Economy: Conrad says the country’s increasing debt load and heavy borrowing from foreign lenders paints a bleak budget picture and is hurting efforts to strengthen Social Security. Grotberg says debt is part of the risk to future growth and is a better option than raising taxes. Grotberg says he would vote to make tax cuts permanent.
Notice that Conrad gets credit by the Herald of saving Social Security and keeping our country from being taken over by being “concerned with” the debt. How is Conrad supposedly going to “fix” the problem? An Herald reader would never know that he wants to raise taxes.
Dwight Grotberg, and anyone who with the ability to learn from history knows that raising taxes hurts the economy and actually cuts future tax revenues. In fact barring an actual reform of Social Security the best way to strengthen SS is to cut taxes and let the economy take off.
—Energy: Conrad is promoting his bill called Breaking Our Long-term Dependence, or BOLD. He says it would increase production of renewable energy and alternative fuels, reward conservation, fund research into new energy technology, and upgrade the electricity grid. Grotberg says he agrees with those ideas, but believes Conrad isn’t doing enough to encourage domestic drilling.
“But believes Conrad isn’t doing enough to encourage domestic drilling.” Notice how this is written to puff the Senator up and minimize Grotberg? Conrad’s communications Director couldn’t have done a better job.
Senator Conrad is blocking the will of the majority to develop our own resources in ANWR and in coastal areas. Instead Conrad wants us to send BILLION overseas where it often winds up helping our enemies.
—National security: Conrad and fellow Sen. Byron Dorgan, D-N.D., introduced a bill that would spend $200 million to create an intelligence team with the purpose of capturing Osama bin Laden. Conrad voted against sending troops to Iraq in 2002, which Grotberg says was “a bad decision based on information that he had at the time.” Conrad says he voted against sending the troops because al-Qaida, not Iraq, attacked the United States on Sept. 11, 2001. Grotberg says Conrad has put too much reliance on the United Nations.
Once again the differences couldn’t be greater. Senator Conrad has worked as hard as he could to block our efforts in the War on Terror. Instead he throws up a smokescreen over someone who frankly has become almost inconsequential in the war on terror. We’re fighting a war against a movement and Senator Conrad is trying to arrest one man.
The Herald is running with Senator Conrad’s talking points while minimizing Dwight Grotberg’s campaign.
With support like this from the North Dakota media Senator Conrad won’t have to spend those millions he took from out-of-state interests.
