From AFPNC‘s Dallas Woodhouse:

Americans for Prosperity Takes to the Airwaves with Statewide Radio Ad Blitz

Ad Says Thank Kay Hagan for ?Eye-Popping Gas Prices?

RALEIGH ? The free-market grassroots group Americans for Prosperity-North Carolina (AFP-NC) took to the airwaves today with a statewide radio ad blitz, which tells citizens they can ?Thank Kay Hagan if those eye-popping gas prices continue for years.? Instead, the ad asks citizens to contact Hagan and urge her to support lower energy costs and a reduction in the tax burden that have squeezed the wallets of North Carolina families. 

The ad, which will run in every major media market in the state, states Hagan ?has opposed environmentally-friendly off-shore oil drilling that could lower energy costs and reduce dependence on foreign oil.?

?We need to let the free market find solutions to our energy challenges in a changing economy, and we need to deliver tax relief to overburdened families that are struggling to make ends meet,? said Dallas Woodhouse, AFP North Carolina Director. ?We are encouraging our members, and anyone who is feeling their wallet squeezed by high taxes and energy prices, to contact Kay Hagan and urge her to support plans that reduce taxes and lower energy costs.?
 
In addition to addressing the energy issue, the radio ad also outlines Kay Hagan?s votes in the State Senate in support of a temporary sales tax and income tax hike. Those tax increases turned out to be not so temporary and Kay Hagan ?worked to make a portion of both temporary tax hikes permanent,? the ad continues.
 
The ad is part of Americans for Prosperity?s effort to promote free-market policies that will reduce energy costs, and oppose proposals by global warming alarmists that would lead to huge energy price spikes. AFP is encouraging members of Congress to oppose renewing the current Congressional ban on offshore drilling that is set to expire October 1.
 
?Opposing market-based measures to lower energy costs by increasing domestic supplies is quite simply out of touch with average Americans,? said AFP President Tim Phillips. ?Families and businesses won?t be fooled by slick political rhetoric. They understand the energy taxes and regulation of the 1970s are proven failed policies that won?t deliver relief from the pain at the gas pump.?
 
The full audio of the radio ad, which will begin airing Tuesday, September 16, is available online at www.AFPNC.org. 

For more on the value of low-cost energy, see Daren Bakst’s report on the topic here.