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Ohio Individual Race: OH-15

Incumbent:	Deborah Pryce (R)
	Deborah Pryce has a lifetime AFL-CIO congressional voting record of voting wrong on working family issues 91 percent of the time.
Challenger(s):	Mary Jo Kilroy  (D)
	Go to Mary Jo Kilroy’s campaign website.
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Endorsed Candidate: Mary Jo Kilroy

Straight Facts About Our Candidates

U.S. House of Representatives, Ohio, District 15

MARY JO KILROY  WILL FIGHT FOR WORKING FAMILIES

Advocates for Our Health Care. Mary Jo Kilroy connected uninsured families with health care professionals and worked to ensure more employers provide health care. She provided $1 million to communities to find new ways to open access to health care. (The Columbus Dispatch, 9/30/03, 2/2/05; Kilroy campaign materials)

Protects Our Wages. As Franklin County commissioner, Mary Jo Kilroy voted to require companies bidding for public works projects to pay prevailing wages, offer health insurance and provide pension plans. She supports Ohio’s ballot initiative to increase the minimum wage and will fight to increase the federal minimum wage. (The Columbus Dispatch, 4/28/06; Kilroy campaign materials)

Preserves Our Social Security. Mary Jo Kilroy “will oppose all forms of Social Security privatization.” (Kilroy press release, 8/4/06)

DEBORAH PRYCE  HAS FAILED WORKING FAMILIES

Attacked Our Health Care. Deborah Pryce voted to increase insurance premiums for working families and voted for health care saving accounts that shift costs—and risks—onto workers. She sided with HMOs to limit the rights of injured patients and to create special protections for negligent HMOs. (H.R. 525, Vote #426, 7/26/05; Chicago Sun-Times, 7/7/03; H.R. 2663, 8/2/01)

Failed Workers. Deborah Pryce voted against funding for critical job-training programs, against unemployment benefits for Ohio’s workers and against protecting overtime pay. (H.R. 27, Vote #48, 3/2/05; H.R. 3030, 2/4/04; H.R. 2660, 7/10/03)

Raided Social Security Trust Fund. Deborah Pryce voted to raid $1.1 trillion from Social Security. She supported a privatization plan that would have created up to $2 trillion in debt and done nothing for the long-term solvency of Social Security. (H.C.R. 95, Vote #88, 3/17/05; Congress Daily, 3/16/05; House Republican Conference, “Saving Social Security,” 1/27/05)

 

VOTE Nov. 7

How you vote is a personal decision. Whatever you decide, please vote.

 

 

 

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