Club For Growth Targets Dean With TV Ads

The antitax group, the Club for Growth in Washington, said it had bought $100,000 of television time over two weeks in the two early voting states for its spot, which likens Dr. Dean to the failed Democratic nominees George McGovern, Walter F. Mondale and Michael S. Dukakis, and says he would "raise income taxes, marriage taxes, capital gains taxes, dividend taxes, even bring back the death tax."

The advertisement refers to Dr. Dean's promise to repeal all of President Bush's recent tax cuts. Dr. Dean's campaign began producing an advertisement that describes him as a fiscal conservative who balanced 11 state budgets and says of Mr. Bush, "His economic policies created the largest deficits in our country's history."