| This is rich. Randy Kuhl spent most of last year refusing to listen to the pleas of his own constituents to vote to override the president's veto of the SCHIP program that extends health coverage to children. There were TV ad campaigns that tried to change his mind. There were letters to the editor across his district pleading with him to support children's health. But, Randy Kuhl would not abandon President 24% or his Big Tobacco backers. He voted against SCHIP not once, not twice, but three times! Surely, this wasn't a popular course of action in the 29th District where those votes denied health insurance to 50,000 children.
What to do? Well, I guess you just start lying to your constituents and perversely portray yourself as a champion of the SCHIP program. No, really. Oh, and the kicker? YOU are paying for it.
Eric Massa is having none of it:
For more than a week now, the families of the 29th Congressional District have been bombarded with Randy Kuhl's deceitful George Bush talking points on the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP). Kuhl, who has repeatedly defended the Tobacco Industry instead of protecting children, is now attempting to take credit for supporting SCHIP, despite the fact that he's voted against it three times in the last year. In his most recent effort to mislead the public, Randy Kuhl sent out a taxpayer funded mailer boldly proclaiming that "No child in New York should ever have to live without health coverage"--an ironic observation indeed, considering the fact that he actively fought to prevent over 50,000 children in the 29th District from receiving access to private health care.
"I can't help but wonder how many children could have received health care for the cost of Randy Kuhl's disingenuous tax payer funded mailer" said former cancer outreach advocate Eric Massa. "It appears that Mr. Kuhl has no problem spending tens of thousands of our tax dollars on a publication designed to distort his voting record, but he does have a problem standing up to lobbyists and George Bush. Randy Kuhl's record is clear - he has chosen to obstruct change by standing with roadblock Washington insiders and against the working families of Western New York. He simply no longer has the interests of our district in mind.
Denying health care to children is pretty damn low. Honestly, it's obscene. Lying about it at taxpayer expense is even worse. It's time for Randy to go.
On the web: Massa For Congress. |
