Straight Facts About Our Candidates
U.S. House of Representatives, Colorado, District 7
ED PERLMUTTER WILL FIGHT FOR WORKING FAMILIES
Will Protect Our Retirement Security. Ed Perlmutter will “protect pensions and Social Security for our seniors— not abolish it or privatize it.” (http://www.perlmutter2006.com; Denver Post, 8/9/06)
Will Fight for Workers. Ed Perlmutter voted to protect workers’ compensation benefits and unemployment insurance and voted against a bill that would have prohibited union organizing. (S.B. 1, 2001; S.B. 191, 2002; S.B. 130, 2002)
Will Fight for Affordable Health Care. Ed Perlmutter knows working families are worried about health care and has vowed to make health care more affordable. (Associated Press State & Local Wire, 8/9/06; Denver Post, 7/4/06)
ROCK O'DONNELL WILL FAIL WORKING FAMILIES
Want to Abolish Social Security. Rick O’Donnell wrote an essay in 1995 that said, “it is time to slay the largest government ‘entitlement’ program of all, Social Security.” (Denver Post, 8/10/06)
Will Export Our Jobs. Rick O’Donnell will send our jobs overseas. “We must engage with the world and expand free trade.” (www.rickodonnell.com)
Will Increase Health Care Costs. Rick O’Donnell denied Coloradoans access to imported Canadian drugs by preventing Canadian pharmacies from being licensed and regulated in Colorado—putting the interests of big drug companies first. (Denver Post, 3/21/04)
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