MSNBC: Hodes camp blasts Ayotte on jobs bill

From NBC's Brenda Shepard and Jessica Stringfield
In a conference call with reporters today, the campaign of New Hampshire Senate candidate Paul Hodes (D) seized on GOP Senate candidate Kelly Ayotte's stated opposition to the $15 billion jobs bill that passed the Senate last week.

“Hodes is offering solutions, and all we’re getting from [Ayotte] is silence and political rhetoric,” Hodes Communications Director Mark Bergman said on the call. 

Ayotte "hasn’t offered any real concrete ideas,” added Hodes Campaign Manager Martin. “This is the most important issue facing Granite Staters every day. They're worried about their jobs. They're worried about keeping their jobs, finding one. And she’s yet to put anything on the table that’s really substantive that would actually include the economy."

In an interview with ABC this week, Ayotte said this about the Senate jobs bill: “I don't think that particular proposal I would have supported... I did like pieces of it. I liked the payroll tax-cut piece. There were other pieces of spending in it that I don't think we would have; one of the concerns I had with the bill is how we're going to pay for it. And there wasn't a proposal on the table to say we're going to have corresponding cuts to pay for it, or even we're going to use existing stimulus money to pay for it.”