Check this out and this too. A nice counter to Miller's ridiculous "Change" TV ad that went up today.
By the way, after the flip are a list of FACTS, courtesy of the Webb campaign, to counter Miller's lies and distortions.
Contact: Kristian Denny Todd - 703-778-4080 ext 203***FACT CHECK: Corporate Lobbyist Harris Miller+óGé¼Gäós Television Ad +óGé¼+ôChange+óGé¼-¥***
Corporate Lobbyist Harris Miller claims he is a +óGé¼+ôLifelong Democrat+óGé¼-¥ but Harris Miller has a history of supporting the most conservative Republicans.
FACT: Corporate Lobbyist Harris Miller has spent decades as a lobbyists for big business making millions of dollars by pushing through legislation that only benefits big business.
FACT: Corporate Lobbyist Harris Miller has made thousands of dollars in personal campaign contributions to rightwing Republicans including Dennis Hastert, Spencer Abraham, Arlen Specter, Billy Tauzin, John Sununu and Adam Putnam. [opensecrets.org]
FACT: Corporate Lobbyist Harris Miller has contributed the maximum amount allowed under the law to Republican House Speaker Denny Hastert. [opensecrets.org]
FACT: Corporate Lobbyist Harris Miller praised George Bush as a strong economic +óGé¼+ôleader.+óGé¼-¥ [The Australian, 4/3/2001]
FACT: Corporate Lobbyist Harris Miller was +óGé¼+ôdoing everything [he could]+óGé¼-¥ to get Spencer Abraham re-elected while Democrats were fighting in the trenches to take back the Senate in 2000. [Orlando Business Journal, 10/20/2000]
FACT: Corporate Lobbyist Harris Miller called the Nomination of John Ashcroft a +óGé¼+ôwin-win because he has impeccable legal credentials.+óGé¼-¥ [Computer Reseller News, 1/15/2001]
FACT: Corporate Lobbyist Harris Miller said he thinks permanently extending the Bush tax cuts is +óGé¼+ôa great idea.+óGé¼-¥ [The Politics Program with Mark Plotkin, 2/17/06]
Corporate Lobbyist Harris Miller claims he is a +óGé¼+ôVirginia high-tech leader.+óGé¼-¥ Miller+óGé¼Gäós record shows he is a leader of the movement to outsource American jobs and fight against the interest of worker.
FACT: Corporate Lobbyist Harris Miller said +óGé¼+ôoffshore outsourcing pushes the U.S.
Economy to perform at a higher level.+óGé¼-¥ Offshore outsourcing will result in the loss of 3.3 million well-paying jobs and over $136 billion in lost wages by 2015. [ITAA press release, 4/2/2004; The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 3/2004]
FACT: Corporate Lobbyist Harris Miller the AFL-CIO calls Miller +óGé¼+ôtruly one of the bad guys+óGé¼-¥ whose "anti-labor, anti-worker activities...find him unfit for any kind of labor support." [AFL-CIO Letter to Members, 2/6/06]
FACT: Corporate Lobbyist Harris Miller wants to replace American tech workers with immigrant workers by removing the cap on those workers. [Testimony of Harris Miller, 2/25/98]
FACT: Corporate Lobbyist Harris Miller worked to block efforts in the Senate to expand rural internet access. [Local Competition Report, 8/13/01]
Corporate Lobbyist Harris Miller implies he has support from Governor Mark Warner
FACT: Mark Warner has held a fundraiser for Jim Webb where he said +óGé¼+ôIn Jim Webb we have somebody who+óGé¼Gäós not afraid to take on a fight.+óGé¼-¥ Warner Called Webb +óGé¼+ôa great American+óGé¼-¥ and a +óGé¼+ôgreat Virginia Democrat.+óGé¼-¥ [Washington Post, 5/14/06]
FACT: According to Time magazine Webb +óGé¼+ôseems to have the backing of Warner.+óGé¼-¥ [Time, 5/15/06]
Corporate Lobbyist Harris Miller says he wants to Fire Rumsfeld to change course in Iraq.
FACT: Jim Webb has been an outspoken opponent of the War in Iraq since late 2001, well before it started.
FACT: Corporate Lobbyist Harris Miller supported the Bush Administration invasion of Iraq, and only recently flip-flopped and began to oppose it.
Corporate Lobbyist Harris Miller wants to Tax profits of big oil to invest in alternative energy, profits he helped create.
FACT: According to ITAA lobbyist disclosures Corporate Lobbyist Harris Miller was a registered lobbyist on the Bush-Cheney energy bill in 2003, a bill that included $23.5 billion in energy related tax giveaways and over $75 billion in authorizations for the energy industry including money for oil pipelines and offshore drilling. [ITAA Mid-Year Lobbying Report, 2003; The Energy Policy Act Fact Sheet, Committee on Government Reform, Minority Office, 11/2003]
FACT: Corporate Lobbyist Harris Miller supported Spencer Abraham, Bush-Cheney energy secretary during the first term who also supported the '03 energy bill. [Orlando Business Journal, 10/20/2000; Reuters, 11/21/03]
Jim Webb Is A Real Democrat.
* Webb has received support from eight sitting and former Democratic Senators. Including the current Democratic leader in the Senate Harry Reid, Former Democratic leader Tom Daschle, and former chair of the DNC and current Senator Christopher Dodd.
* Jim Webb is the only Democrat who can beat George Allen. A Zogby poll in late March has him within single digits of George Allen, trailing only 48-41. [Wall Street Journal, 3/31/2006]
* +óGé¼+ôJim Webb is George Allen+óGé¼Gäós worst nightmare.+óGé¼-¥ According to a recent time magazine article. [Time, 5/15/2006]
* Webb has been endorsed by 25 Democratic current and former elected officials in Virginia and has signed up over 2,500 volunteers from all over Virginia.