Bill Nelson Was For Tax Hikes Before He Was Against Them

With Senate Democrats starting to feel election-year heat over President Obama's $445 billion jobs package, Sen. Bill Nelson told Sunshine State News on Monday that he is undecided on a provision that would raise taxes on people making more than $200,000 a year.

But 10 months ago, Nelson voted for cloture on a bill that would have let the Republican tax cuts expire on individual incomes over $200,000 and joint filer making $250,000. Senate records show Nelson joined 51 other Democrats in that vote on Dec. 4, 2010.

Adam Hasner, a GOP Senate candidate, called out Nelson on Tuesday morning.

From the start of this campaign, Senator Nelson has done everything he can to distance himself from his shared 98 percent voting record with the Obama administration.His silence here is just another attempt to play both sides of the fence," said Hasner spokesman Douglass Mayer.

"After supporting Obamacare, cap-and-trade, card check, and the failed $787 billion stimulus package, trying to reinvent himself as a moderate is the opposite of leadership and Floridians arent buying it."