Halter, Lincoln Look For Weaknesses
During the 2 Dem debates in AR this weekend featuring Sen. Blanche Lincoln (D) and LG Bill Halter (D), both managed to find holes in their opponent's armor on issues key to their campaigns.
Halter has hit Lincoln hard on financial reform, the same week she successfully guided a derivatives regulation bill through the Senate Agriculture Committee, a measure acclaimed by both Dem senators and rank-and-file party members. Halter did not take any shots at the bill itself during the second debate Saturday, but he cast Lincoln as a product of DC, where "you pat yourself on the back for cleaning up a mess you helped to create."
Specifically, he referred to her '99 vote in favor of the Gramm-Leach-Bliley bill, which repealed parts of the Glass-Steagall law that prohibited a single corporation from running an insurance company and investment and commercial banks. It passed the Senate 90-8, with only 7 Dems and one GOPer voting against it. At the time, Sen. Byron Dorgan (D-ND) predicted that the bill could lead to "future massive taxpayer bailouts."
Lincoln actually admitted that Congress "could have done better" in '99. "We had no clue those markets had extended to the extent they had. I will take my fair share of the fault in that. What we know now, we have to correct," Lincoln said.
Lincoln, meanwhile, can be expected to press Halter for a firm position on the Employees Free Choice Act, which GOPers -- and Lincoln -- derisively call "card check."
Halter refused in both debates to say how he would have voted on such a bill, dodging the question by saying the bill, a top union priority, is no longer on the table. Lincoln offered a simple, easy-to-understand stance ("I don't support card check"), which she could use to contrast with Halter's perceived waffling.
Much of Halter's support and funding comes from labor unions, which strongly support EFCA. For him to decry their choice piece of legislation could be deemed as anathema to their cause. However, AR is a right-to-work state with the second lowest rate (4.2%) of union membership in the country. For Halter, treading the line between his most fervent supporters and the composition of the AR electorate is a tightrope he may be walking for the rest of the primary season and beyond.
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