Subject: [big campaign] Re: Fiorina's NCLB gaffe
From: "Adam Jentleson (CAPAF)" <[email-masked]>
To: "big campaign" <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2008 13:14:04 -0400
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Not the first time she has done this -- yet another "McContradiction":  
http://tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=f32048af-6a69-4594-8a9f-e99d213578
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From: [email-masked] [mailto:[email-masked]]
On Behalf Of Nico Pitney
Sent: Monday, July 14, 2008 1:03 PM
To: [email-masked]
Subject: [big campaign] Fiorina's NCLB gaffe

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/07/14/mccain-aide-calls-for-ful_n_112
598.html

McCain Aide Calls For Fully Funded No Child Left Behind, Which McCain
Voted Against
<http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/07/14/mccain-aide-calls-for-ful_n_11
2598.html> 

Appearing on Meet the Press Sunday, John McCain's senior adviser Carly
Fiorina touted the Senator's bona fides on education by laying out the
reforms he had envisioned for the No Child Left Behind act. 

"He believes that No Child Left Behind was an imperfect piece of
legislation," she said <http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25662958/page/3/> .
"Nevertheless, there are things about it that have worked. We need to
learn the lessons, fix the problems, fully fund it, and continue to
focus on the education of our children as well as the education and
training of our displaced workers."

But if full funding for NCLB is what Fiorina is looking for, she can
start by lecturing her current boss. Despite hailing the legislation as
a major milestone, McCain has consistently (though not always) voted
against providing complete funding for the education legislation.
According to the National Education Association
<http://209.85.215.104/search?q=cache:5x32uM6fpgIJ:www.neanh.org/John_Mc
Cain_Press_Release.pdf+mccain,+funding+no+child+left+behind&hl=en&ct=cln
k&cd=1&gl=us&client=firefox-a> , "Since 2003, McCain voted repeatedly
against fully funding No Child Left Behind, resulting in an unfunded
mandate that has continued to further tap local communities and states
during an economic downturn."

The lost-in-the-news-cycle gaffe for Fiorina puts a exclamation point on
what was, undoubtedly, a tough week. First she touted health insurance
plans that covered birth control in addition to Viagra, leading to a
completely awkward exchange for her boss with a reporter (not to mention
the embarrassing revelation that in 2003, McCain had voted against
<http://thinkprogress.org/2008/07/08/fiorina-touts-insurance-plans-that-
cover-birth-control-but-forgets-mccain-opposes-them/>  an amendment
requiring insurance coverage of prescription birth control).

Then she mentioned, in an interview with Bloomberg's Al Hunt, that
McCain would be open to raising taxes on the wealthy, if in a creative
enough fashion - a position sure to incur the wrath of anti-tax
conservatives.

-- 
Nico Pitney
The Huffington Post
P: 202.834.0301
AIM: njpitney
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