"With a flood of red ink in Washington that threatens the recently-enacted tax cuts, taxpayers in Georgia and across the nation need a candidate committed to putting more money in their pockets, rather than federal coffers."

Added Berthoud, "Lynn Westmoreland's opponent, Silvia Delamar, has a laundry list of new federal programs that will only deepen the national debt and increase the size of the federal government."

NTUCF is the political action arm of the National Taxpayers Union, the nation's largest grassroots taxpayer organization. NTU, founded in 1969, created the NTU Campaign Fund in 1994. Endorsement decisions at NTUCF require a unanimous vote on a nonpartisan basis by a five-member committee that includes two Independents, one Democrat, and two Republicans.