PALAZZO WINS DEBATE

 Tonight Steven Palazzo presented clear and conservative strategies for addressing the needs of South Mississippi from shipbuilding and job creation to insurance reform to tax cuts.

Meanwhile a visibly frustrated and defensive Gene Taylor tried to dodge his own votes and take credit for the work of others. The only liberal vote Gene Taylor did admit to was voting against the Bush tax cuts.

Gene Taylor Dodges His Votes

• Gene Taylor dodged his liberal vote against the conservative Republican alternative to Obamacare.

• Gene Taylor refused to address his liberal votes for Nancy Pelosi, and instead of answering the question used typical Washington politics to try to attack Steven Palazzo.

• Gene Taylor said he “voted the will of his constituents every time.”  But he voted for Nancy Pelosi twice, something the voters of Mississippi would not support even once, much less twice.

• Gene Taylor claimed he did not vote with Nancy Pelosi’s liberal Democrats.  But he does…82% of the time!  Source: 110th and 11th Congress Combined total of Gene Taylor’s votes for Democrat Majority Position, Washington Post Votes Database

Gene Taylor Takes Credit for Others’ Work

• Gene Taylor tried to take responsibility for $45.6 billion in Defense Department contracts without acknowledging the work of Mississippi’s Senators like Trent Lott who served as Majority Leader, Thad Cochran who served as Appropriations Chairman, and Roger Wicker whose leadership on the House Appropriations Committee as well as in the Senate is greatly responsible for those projects.

• Gene Taylor tried to take responsibility for $21 billion in Hurricane Katrina Recovery funds without acknowledging the work of the rest of Mississippi’s congressional delegation including Senate Appropriations Chairman Thad Cochran or even Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour.