McCain’s attack email from today-
“My Friend,
I’ve spent my career fighting against pork barrel spending in Washington. And when I see your tax dollars wasted on unnecessary projects such as sprucing up blueberry farms in Maine and researching French fruit flies, I’m not afraid to speak out and cast my vote against such wasteful spending.
My job as your representative is to fight for fiscal responsibility in Washington - not to cut corrupt deals behind closed doors at the expense of future generations.
I’ve always been one to call things like I see them, and the egregious amount of earmark spending in Congress is a complete rip-off of American taxpayers. I want to continue fighting on your behalf to do away with wasteful spending, and I can only do so if I am reelected to the United States Senate. However, if I am going to win this campaign, I will need your immediate help and support.
I ask that you follow this link to make a generous contribution of $25, $50 $100, $250 or more to help us reach our goal by the end of the month.
It is essential that my campaign reaches its fund raising goal in the next 7 days. We must have the funds to get my conservative record out all across Arizona and make sure the voters know the difference between me and my opponents who support pork barrel spending - especially now that former Arizona Congressman J.D. Hayworth is actively making moves to challenge me.
I’m confident the majority of voters will agree that this is not the time to send a defeated Congressman back to Washington. During his time in office as one of Tom Delay’s leadership team, J.D. Hayworth cast countless votes for earmarks and pork barrel projects that helped balloon our government deficit by billions of dollars. His election would be a substantial setback for the true conservative principles that you and I stand for.
Unfortunately, J.D. Hayworth has a record of talking like a conservative, but voting like a liberal on fiscal issues. As a Member of Congress, he voted for millions of dollars in earmarks at your expense including sprucing up blueberry farms in Maine and researching French fruit flies.
Congress has too many Democrats making sweetheart deals on health care legislation. We can’t afford to send someone like J.D. Hayworth who will say one thing to get elected, and turn around to vote for budget-busting pork barrel legislation....”