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GOP fuels gas-price anger in N.Y. race

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Rep. Kirsten Gillibrand of New York, here with former President Bill Clinton at a rally in 2006, is being hit for high gas prices and taxes by challenger Sandy Treadwell.

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    By S.A. Miller

    New York Republicans are fanning voter anger over rising gas prices and high taxes in an effort to oust Rep. Kirsten Gillibrand, a freshman Democrat whose upstate district is considered one of the few places where embattled House Republicans could pick up a seat this year.

    For weeks, Republican candidate Sandy Treadwell has aired a TV ad in the upper Hudson River Valley district that proclaims the Democrat-led Congress has "played politics with energy and failed to get things done."

    "Now gas costs $4," it says.

    In another TV spot - his mostly self-financed campaign is spending $75,000 a week on the media blitz - the former state Republican Party chief and New York secretary of state under then-Gov. George E. Pataki promises to rescue voters from paying "the highest taxes in America."

    The rhetoric likely resonates in New York, where voters shoulder some of the largest tax burdens and pay more than most for fuel.

    According to the AAA the average price of regular gas in New York topped $4.30 Friday, the sixth-highest in the country behind Alaska, California, Hawaii, Connecticut and Washington state.

    The clash over energy and economic policies also will play out in the presidential race and congressional campaigns across the country, with Democrats calling for more alternative-energy research and government aid for struggling families, while Republicans push for more domestic oil drilling and tax cuts.

    The same partisan disputes tied Congress in knots this year.

    Mrs. Gillibrand is not named in the TV ads, but Mr. Treadwell has taken some swipes at her.

    "Congresswoman Kirsten Gillibrand, along with House Democrats, voted ... for a week-long vacation before passing any significant legislation to lower energy costs or help to make us energy independent," he said in a recent press release.

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