Tuesday, August 17, 2010

Markey now calls TARP 'offensive' in first TV ad

Colorado Rep. Betsy Markey wasn't in Congress when the House voted on the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act in October 2008. But to hear the freshman Democrat tell it, the passage of the bill, which 172 members of her party voted for, really "offend[s]" her.

"Maybe it's my 20 years as a small-business owner, but these Wall Street bailouts really offend me," she says in her first TV ad of the campaign. "No one ever gave me a bailout."

"Bailout is just another word for cop-out," she adds. "And here in Colorado, that's not how we do business."

The ad is set to start airing Tuesday.   More-

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