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Gingrich blasts Santorum as ‘pal’ of unions in new robocall
Newt Gingrich has turned his sights on Rick Santorum in a new robocall going out to Oklahoma and Tennessee voters, bashing the former Pennsylvania senator as having “cozied up to the labor union bosses.”
The ad will reach 150,000 voters in each of the states, according to ABC News.
“On the campaign trail, Rick Santorum talks a good game about his blue-collar roots, and about being for the average family,” a female narrator says. “But here’s the record Rick Santorum doesn’t want you to know about: As a senator from Pennsylvania, Santorum cozied up to the labor union bosses, and voted for the AFL-CIO, and against a national right-to-work bill that would have let workers opt out of paying union dues — union dues that hurt families and small businesses.”
Gingrich has focused the brunt of his attacks on Mitt Romney so far in the campaign, but Santorum’s wins in Colorado, Minnesota and Missouri have elevated him to a status as Romney’s chief competitor. Gingrich needs the vote of social conservatives who might otherwise be inclined to vote for Santorum to pick up enough delegates through Super Tuesday to maintain a shot at the nomination.
Santorum, for his part, has defended his vote against the federal right-to-work law as intended to preserve states’ rights.
“When I was a senator from Pennsylvania, which is a state that is not a right-to-work state, the state made a decision not to be right-to-work,” Santorum said during a January GOP debate in South Carolina. “And I wasn’t going to go to Washington and overturn that from the federal government and do that to the state.”
The most recent polls of both Tennessee and Oklahoma show Santorum with double-digit leads, although those states have not been surveyed since Romney’s victories in Michigan and Arizona earlier this week.
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