11/25/2008
CONTACT: Mike Diegel, 202-314-2004
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The National Federation of Independent Business, the nation's leading small business association, reiterated its endorsement of Georgia Sen. Saxby Chambliss for reelection to the U.S. Senate in the run-off election scheduled for Dec. 2.
The endorsement comes from NFIB's Save America's Free Enterprise (SAFE) Trust, the organization's political action committee, and is based on prior voting records to evaluate the candidate's views on legislative issues affecting small business.
"Senator Chambliss has an excellent working relationship with NFIB and our members in Georgia," said Lisa Goeas, NFIB's vice president, political. "He has supported our members with his proven legislative record and his work back in Georgia and he has earned our endorsement. Senator Chambliss is the type of active, workhorse legislator we need in the U.S. Senate, a lawmaker who will build the type of coalitions that will find practical solutions to our most pressing economic challenges."
In addition to his 100 percent voting record in this Congress, Sen. Chambliss also is a past winner of NFIB's Guardian of Small Business award, given to those members of Congress who vote to protect free enterprise.
Today's endorsement puts the considerable grassroots support of the state's small businesses behind the Chambliss campaign. Small business owners and their employees vote in high numbers and are known for actively recruiting friends, family members and acquaintances to go to the polls. NFIB will encourage its members to help turn out the influential small business voting bloc on Election Day. According to NFIB polling data, small business owners and their employees make up 43 percent of registered voters in America.
