Congressman Pat Meehan Breaks Key Promise To Delaware County Seniors: Backs Republican Efforts to Privatize Medicare
The Meehan Report releases debate footage from fall campaign in which Meehan pointedly promised voters he would vote against Republican efforts to privatize Medicare
In footage from an October debate released today by the watchdog Web site, The Meehan Report, then-candidate Meehan strongly states he will oppose all efforts of the Republican Party leadership to privatize Medicare by turning it into a voucher program, noting “If that’s the agenda, I’m not voting for it. That’s the first and most important thing.” (at :24 of the following video link http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NqznLQ8xLcc ).
Meehan’s comment was a direct response to his opponent, state Representative Bryan Lentz, who noted that Meehan was likely to follow the lead of Republican Party leaders like John Boehner and Eric Cantor (who support privatizing Medicare and Social Security) after relying on them to headline a series of fundraisers. The exchange between Meehan and Lentz came during an October debate at Neumann University. (For the complete exchange, click http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBZrZgEaxN4)
The Republican budget plan that Meehan voted in favor of today calls for replacing the current Medicare system with a voucher program that forces Seniors to buy health care plans from private insurers.
“Medicare plays an important role in protecting the physical and financial health of our Seniors.” said Andrew Blum, founder of the Meehan Report. “Pat Meehan doesn’t believe it is a program worth protecting, and he should have had the decency to be up front with people who rely on it before the election. He broke his promise.”
Meehan’s broken promise on the privatization of Medicare is just the latest example of his failure to live up to campaign promises. He also claimed he would be a “fiscal watchdog” during the campaign, and yet news outlets have reported he voted to fund the infamous “Bridge to Nowhere” in Alaska, and that he is paying $10,000 more than what his predecessor paid in rent costs, or a greater increase in rent than any other new representative in Pennsylvania. [1]
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[1] “Digs for 7 of Pennsylvania’s 19 House members cost taxpayers more this year” – Pittsburgh Tribune-Review http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/news/pittsburgh/s_729415.html
The voters of the 7th CD were duped by millions of Citizen' United dollars poured into dishonest ads.
ReplyDeleteToo bad enough of them did not see the program excerpted above. People like Meehan look like they doing their darndest to destroy what is left of this nation before the voters wake up to their true motives.
Meehan is a typical no good Republican, Ryan and the Republicans are out to destroy SS/Medicare and Medicaid. They want to cut funds to Pell Grants, Head Start, NPR, and Womens rights and infra structure while keeping taxes low for the wealthy and subsidies for big oil, agribusiness, etc. We must unite Dem's,Independents, Seniors in 2012 and throw out all far right Republicans and the tea bagging freaks. We must keep the presidency, senate and house out of these religious right and tea baggers hands. Look what happened to the house when voters did not turn out in 2010.We can not let this happen again. Check out Texas, run by far right Republican nuts, women now have to view a sonogram before they can utilize their right to choose. So much for Republicans not wanting the government to be involved in health care, only what they want. A board set up to review text books took out all reference to civil rights and union struggles that help build the greatest middle class the world has ever known.The Republican party as now controlled by the religious right and tea baggers political ideology is pure insanity. My way or the highway, no compromise. Our country can't continue on this course. All Republicans / baggers must go in 2012.
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