FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE October 13, 1992 YOU KNOW HE'S HURTING A First in Presidential Campaigns: Paying for Good Spin [Statement of Bob Boorstin, Deputy Communications Director] When it came to fanciful and bizarre campaign television ads, we thought we'd seen it all from the Bush campaign. But today's contribution adds new dimensions to the word desperate. You know you're really in trouble when you have to pay to try to convince people that you won a debate. Once he finishes paying for his spin, the ad turns back to what George Bush knows best: distorting Bill Clinton's plan. So at the risk of repeating ourselves -- and in contrast to what the citizens on the ad told the Bush cameras -- we repeat ourselves. Bill Clinton's plan will cut taxes on working families. The Clinton plan includes $60 billion over four years in middle class tax cuts and $12 billion in tax cuts for the working poor. Commenting on the Bush's campaign last ad to make such claims, The Wall Street Journal said, "...Mr. Clinton has proposed to cut taxes for the sort of [middle class] workers featured in the ad." [WSJ 10/2/92] George Bush and his admeisters can continue to talk about tax-and-spend. But that doesn't change the facts: the Clinton/Gore plan will cut $140 billion in federal spending, cut the deficit in half in four years, and give middle class families a tax cut of $300 per child. -- 30 --