Straight Facts About Our Candidates
U.S. House of Representatives, Iowa, District 4
SELDEN SPENCER WILL FIGHT FOR WORKING FAMILIES
Supports Education. “Education needs to be available to all families. We need to redirect our funding to make education more accessible to all Iowans from pre-school through 12th grade, and increase funding to post-secondary educational institutions.” (Selden Spencer, www.spencerforcongress.com)
Supports Health Care for All. “I will fight for a basic universal health care system. Single-payer health care, such as Medicare, should be provided to all citizens.…”( Selden Spencer, www.spencerforcongress.com)
Supports Protecting Workers’ Pensions. Selden Spencer supports defined-benefit pension plans and would oppose legislation to replace Social Security’s guaranteed benefits with private accounts. He opposes increasing the retirement age for Social Security or reducing current benefits. (2006 AFL-CIO Candidate Questionnaire)
TOM LATHAM HAS FAILED WORKING FAMILIES
Voted to Cut Education Funding. Tom Latham voted to cut $14.3 billion from federal student financial aid programs that help middle-class families afford to send students to college. (Vote #601, 11/18/05)
Voted to Cut Medicaid Funding. Tom Latham voted to slash funds for Medicaid, which provides low-income families, children and seniors with health care. (Vote #601, 11/18/05)
efused to Protect Employee Pensions. Tom Latham opposed protecting pension benefits for more than 120,000 United Airlines workers. (Vote #309, 6/24/05)
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VOTE Nov. 7
Tom Latham has a lifetime AFL-CIO Congressional Voting Record of voting wrong on working family issues 91 percent of the time.
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