Post-Foley White House Advice: GOP Should Focus on 'Achievements'

Read advice from a White House spokesperson, Dana Perino, on how GOP campaigns should deal with the e-mail disclosures that led to the resignation of Florida Republican Rep. Mark Foley.

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Subject: PRESS GAGGLE BY DANA PERINO, a White House spokesperson

THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the Press Secretary

(Englewood, Colorado)
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For Immediate Release October 4, 2006

PRESS GAGGLE
BY
DANA PERINO

Aboard Air Force One
En Route Aurora, Colorado
12:03 P.M. MDT

....REPORTER: What would the President advise the Republican Party on how to handle this Foley scandal, in terms of the midterm elections being so close?

MS. PERINO: I think the President has his eye on the ball when it comes to campaigning and I think his advice to other candidates would be to be campaigning in their districts on the Republicans' clear record of achievement when it comes to protecting the country and making sure that we have policies in place that will ensure a strong and growing economy; drawing distinctions between the tough talk that we've heard, about the votes that are taken; and also the congressmen in their own words regarding tax policy, the higher taxes that they might advocate if they were to go into power.

So I think that keeping your eye on the ball would be the best advice, in terms of this midterm election season as we head into the home stretch.

Okay, thank you.

12:09 P.M. MDT