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Mr. Mica has countered with ads criticizing Ms. Adams’s votes for spending bills while she was in the Florida Legislature, suggesting that her record did not match her antispending talk.

From New York Times • Aug. 10, 2012

But her record of fiscal austerity prevented Republican Congressman Ronald Sarasin from making a believable antispending pitch to Connecticut voters.

From Time Magazine Archive