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Miller opens campaign linking Allen to Bush« Thread Started

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Miller opens campaign linking Allen to Bush« Thread Started on Apr 19, 2006, 10:48pm » --------------------------------------------------------------------------------Miller opens campaign linking Allen to BushBy BOB LEWIS AP Political Writer April 18, 2006 read source: http://www.dailypress.com/news/local/vi ... nes-virgin iaRICHMOND, Va. -- Democrat Harris Miller formally opened his campaign for the U.S. Senate on Tuesday by trying to saddle Republican incumbent Sen. George Allen with President Bush's unpopular war policies abroad and fiscal woes at home. Though campaigning for months and raising money even longer, the wealthy Fairfax County businessman and former Internet industry lobbyist began an eight-day statewide swing by attacking Bush as much as Allen. "They (Virginia voters) look at George Bush and George Allen's Washington and they see reckless policies that are creating huge deficits and economic pain for families in this state," Miller, 54, told perhaps two dozen supporters and reporters at an afternoon stop on the State Capitol grounds. "They are fed up with George Bush and George Allen for misleading us into a war in Iraq that's costing us hundreds of billions of dollars and thousands of American lives with no end in sight," Miller said. Following a design Democrats plan to employ nationally in the off-year congressional races, Miller sought to make the president's plunging poll numbers Allen's problem, blasting the White House and the Republican Congress on the war, on a federal deficit approaching $9 trillion, even on gasoline prices projected to top $3 a gallon by vacation season. "They are fed up with George Bush and George Allen defending energy policies written by Dick Cheney's cronies that line the pockets of oil industry executives while we are forced to pay outrageous prices at the pump," Miller said. He called Allen "part of the problem since his first day in the Senate. He has no accomplishments to his name." And he noted that Allen had voted to support Bush 96 percent of the time. In response, Allen campaign spokesman Dick Wadhams linked Miller to the Democratic Party's national chairman. "It is very impressive that Harris Miller can read, verbatim, his talking points from Howard Dean," he said. "We look forward to meeting whoever wins the liberal, self-funding, wealthy-Democrat primary," Wadhams said. Miller faces Republican-turned-Democrat Jim Webb in the June 13 primary. Without mentioning Webb's name in his announcement speech, he nevertheless made unmistakable references to Webb, who was President Reagan's Navy secretary. Miller noted his support for Democratic governors from the incumbent, Timothy M. Kaine, as far back as Chuck Robb, who lost his 2000 re-election bid to Allen. In that race, Allen had Webb's endorsement. "Each one I proudly supported and called a friend. Each one a Virginia Democrat we can count on," Miller said. State Sen. Henry Marsh, D-Richmond, left no doubt in introducing Miller. "He is a Virginia Democrat we can count on. I repeat: he is a Virginia Democrat we can count on." Though criticizing Bush's handling of the Iraq war, Miller would not commit to a withdrawal timetable, saying instead that Iraqi police must first take over their country's security from U.S. troops. Miller said he would push for increasing the federal minimum wage from $5.15 per hour to "somewhere between $6.50 to $7.50." He also said he supports health care reforms similar to those Massachusetts enacted, using a blend of subsidies and penalties in requiring all the state's residents to have health insurance. With the new law--backed by Republican Gov. Mitt Romney and a Democratic Legislature--Massachusetts would be the only state with universal health care coverage. Allen and Romney are pursuing a 2008 GOP presidential nomination. P> Bob Lewis has covered Virginia government and politics since 2000.
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