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FreedomWorks’s issue education campaign continues to grow in South Carolina. The latest addition to this effort was a newspaper advertisement that appeared today, October 13th, in The State. This ad is part of a multi-day buy that shows where South Carolina’s U.S. Senate candidates stand on taxes.

The ad contrasts Representative Jim DeMint’s strong record of taxpayer defense with Democrat nominee Inez Tenenbaum’s liberal tax-and-spend proposals. Appearing just after the televised DeMint-Tenenbaum debate, the ad sets the record straight on tax hikes and fundamental tax reform while these issues are still fresh in viewers’ minds.

The ad points out that Jim DeMint has never voted for a tax increase in Congress, while Inez Tenenbaum supported the largest tax hike in South Carolina’s history. FreedomWorks Co-Chairmen Dick Armey and Jack Kemp also explain to readers that DeMint “has been a friend of the taxpayer with every vote.”

The advertisement will reach over 118,000 people each day and is another component of FreedomWorks’s push to educate the public in South Carolina. This overall effort uses the 2004 FreedomWorks/CSE Candidate Survey to show citizens which candidates have pledged to advance fundamental tax reform, to end lawsuit abuse, and to promote Social Security reform through Personal Retirement Accounts.

The initiative is buttressed by FreedomWorks’s nationwide grassroots Get Out the Vote (GOTV) campaign. In the Palmetto State, GOTV employs good old fashioned “shoe leather” politics with a standing army of 3,000 experienced South Carolina political volunteers who lead election year activities including rallies, phone tree call-downs, and door to door efforts.

This “on the ground” effort started in the state in September and has already reached thousands of homes in the Fort Mill and Columbia areas. The GOTV issue education campaign will continue through the election.

FreedomWorks Co-Chairman Dick Armey made the following comments:

“Jim DeMint is a taxpayer hero. He signed the FreedomWorks Candidate Survey, promising not to raise taxes and committing to fundamental tax reform. Inez Tenenbaum, on the other hand, refuses to complete the Survey and is resorting to baseless accusations against DeMint. She needs to present her own plan for fundamental tax reform.”

“FreedomWorks will make sure that the residents of the Palmetto State understand the differences between DeMint’s and Tenenbaum’s agendas, and how they will impact America’s growth and prosperity.”

A .pdf version of the ad is available here.