Marilinda Garcia, a GOP millennial candidate for Congress in New Hampshire, accuses incumbent Rep. Ann Kuster, D-N.H., of spending constituents’ taxes while avoiding paying her own.
The Garcia campaign points to a Feb. 4, 2013 article from WMUR 9, a local ABC affiliate, which revealed Kuster had been delinquent on more than $40,000 in personal property taxes for the prior three years, and at the time still owed nearly $11,000 in late property tax bills.
One day after the WMUR report about Kuster’s unpaid taxes, the congresswoman paid all that she owed. Kuster gave no reason for the delinquencies beyond “we got behind.”
The Garcia campaign told the Examiner that for now, the ad is only on the Web and they are not putting any money into airing it. He wouldn’t say if they planned to run the ad on TV in the future.
The $200,000 figure cited in the ad as Kuster’s lobbying pay is not mentioned in the article the ad cites. The Concord Monitor states that Kuster made $1.3 million in lobbying fees between 1989 to 2009, including $145,000 from pharmaceutical-related organizations and companies, but doesn’t mention the exact amount she was earning per year at the end of her two decades of work.
Polls in the district consistently show Kuster ahead of Garcia, although her lead varies widely from double-digits to just a few points.
