Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) doesn't think the government should be competing with Doritos by spending $2.5 million on a 30-second Super Bowl at about the census.
"While the census is very important to AZ, we shouldn’t be wasting $2.5 million taxpayer dollars to compete with ads for Doritos!," McCain said via Twitter.
The tweet was a follow-up to statements the Senator made at a balanced budget press conference earlier Thursday, and just one more commentary to add to the arsenal of conservative media outlets, which have been giving the story plenty of play.
"The census happens every 10 years. Everybody knows it happens," McCain said, before questioning why the government would spend millions on a commercial when families across America are tightening their belts. "It's shameful."
McCain's census-commercial complaint — the $2.5 million expenditure in a projected $130 million dollar census awareness budget — was only part of McCain's attack on President Barack Obama on Thursday. The former GOP presidential nominee balked at the notion that Obama is serious about the deficit.
"Then the next day, the President announced $100 billion of new spending called a jobs bill — not a stimulus — a jobs bill," McCain said caustically of Obama's deficit freeze proposal. - Politico Story
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