Sessions, Figures Wage Low-Key Senate Race
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Associated Press
Published: October 12, 2008
MOBILE, Ala. (AP) - Republican U.S. Sen. Jeff Sessions and his Democratic opponent, state Sen. Vivian Davis Figures, agree that the economy, including the pump price of gas, tops their list of voter concerns before the Nov. 4 election.
But in interviews with the Associated Press they disagreed almost totally on the record of President Bush.
Sessions supports Bush’s tax cuts and the Iraq invasion, while Figures deplores an administration that plunged the nation’s surplus into the red and sent troops to war on erroneous claims.
Seeking a third term, Sessions far outpaced Figures in fundraising, building a war chest of more than $4.3 million, but spending little of it on campaign advertising in a low-key contest of yard signs and bumper stickers.
Sessions says he’s proud of having more than 10,000 contributors and was grateful that President Bush appeared at a Mobile fundraiser for him.
Sessions says he focused his campaign on asking “the people to give me an opportunity to serve again. I’m not focusing on my opponent.“
Figures, whose supporters include Mobile’s baseball great Hank Aaron, told the AP she got her campaign message out through a “coalition-building” grassroots drive honed in earlier successful
races for the Mobile City Council and the state Senate.
The latest campaign finance reports for the campaign covering through the end of June showed that Sessions had more than $4.3 million in the bank and Figures had $22,302. Those totals were unlikely to change much before Nov. 4.
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