As the following video clip shows, during Saturday's debate against Cranston Mayor Steve Laffey, Senator Lincoln Chafee said a TV ad run by the Club for Growth PAC was "very misleading" and "completely erroneous" because it said he voted for tax hikes. Chafee then goes on to say that he doesn't think he's ever voted to increase taxes.

Unfortunately for Chafee, he's wrong. he sided with the Democrats in November of 2005 and voted for a tax hike (just to name one). And that's not even counting his endless votes against tax cuts.

It's understandable that Chafee doesn't recalling voting for that specific tax hike because he reflexively votes for higher taxes no matter what, but he should come clean by correcting the public record.

UPDATE (3:45pm) by David Keating: Chafee is the one who is misleading people here. The ad does not say he raised taxes. It says he voted for higher taxes.

As Pat Toomey has noted previously, "Chafee has also repeatedly voted against measures to extend expiring provisions of the Bush tax cut package. Clearly those are votes to allow these tax rates to jump back up when the current lower rates expire. And if all that weren't enough, the dispositive fact is that Chafee has voted repeatedly for straightforward tax increases, sponsored by Democrats, in 2003, 2004, 2005, and 2006."

If you want more information on Chafee's various tax votes, click here.

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