Tony Knowles on Free Trade

2004 former Democratic Challenger for Senate (AK; previously served as Governor)

Stop shipping jobs overseas

The Tony Knowles campaign today criticized Sen. Lisa Murkowski for accepting over $100,000 from companies that send US jobs overseas. Murkowski voted to ship jobs outside of the US and against tax credits to keep jobs here in America. Murkowski voted against prohibiting American tax dollars from being used to ship jobs outside the country, against a job reserve fund of $24 billion to provide funding for job creation & against providing a tax credit to companies that create new American factory jobs. Source: Press release, “Murkowski: Ship U.S. Jobs Overseas” Aug 6, 2004

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