SMITH DELIVERS FOR BIG OIL, NOT FOR OREGON
DSCC TV Ad shows what Smith’s tax breaks for big oil could mean for average Oregon families.
The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee released a new television ad today showing how the $18 billion that Gordon Smith gave in tax breaks to Big Oil could help average Oregon families – 407 bags of groceries, 298 tanks of gas, or two years of college tuition.
The DSCC recently launched the website www.BoughtByBigOil.com to expose Republican Senators’ support for policies that leave Americans paying at the pump while oil companies bring in record profits.
“The oil executives who fill Gordon Smith’s campaign coffers with cash have gotten huge tax breaks, while average Oregon families are left with higher prices at the pump,” DSCC spokesman Matthew Miller said. “Oregon families need help, but Gordon Smith is busy helping Big Oil instead.”
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Gordon Smith: No Friend To Seniors
Smith won’t mention his votes to privatize Social Security and bar federal government from negotiating lower drug prices for seniors.
Gordon Smith has put his campaign contributors above his responsibility to serve Oregon seniors.
That’s the message Oregonians delivered today right outside Smith’s 2008 Salem Aging Conference. About 10 protestors stood outside the conference, holding signs, passing out the attached flyer and talking to seniors.
“If Gordon Smith revealed his real record to these seniors, they would storm out in anger. Gordon Smith has taken more than $800,000 from financial institutions, drug companies and the health products industry. In return, he’s voted to bar the federal government from negotiating lower drug prices for seniors and cast the deciding vote to support privatizing Social Security,” Woodburn Senior and Woodburn City Council member Jim Cox said. “A one-day conference right before the election doesn’t outweigh a 12-year record dedicated to privatizing Social Security and raising the cost of prescription drugs.”
The Facts On Gordon Smith And Seniors:
His Votes:
Gordon Smith has voted to bar the federal government from negotiating lower drug prices for seniors, and cast the deciding vote in the U.S. Senate to support privatizing social security.
That means he’s tried to raise the cost of seniors’ prescription drugs while privatizing away the social security funds seniors use to pay for their medications, food and other necessities.
Read the attached flyer to get all the facts.
His Contributors:
Smith has consistently put campaign contributors before our seniors:
-Smith has taken nearly $600,000 from financial institutions and supported Bush attempts to privatize social security.
Smith, Gordon H (R-OR)$518,630 from Securities and Investment
Smith, Gordon H (R-OR)$63,900 from Finance/Credit companies.
[Center for Responsive Politics, accessed 7/25/08]
-Smith has taken more than $250,000 from drug companies and the health products industry over the last few years and opposed efforts to make prescription drugs more affordable for seniors.
[Center for Responsive Politics, accessed 2/18/08]
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Posted August 14, 2008 in Health Care - 0 comments
The Smith/Bush Files
Make no mistake: Gordon Smith and George Bush are good friends. And no surprise - Gordon Smith votes with President Bush over 90% of the time.
Here's a few photos of George & Gordon (and a few good friends)...
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Posted August 14, 2008 in Smith + Bush - 1 comments
DSCC Television Ad Links Smith’s Support For Big Oil To High Gas Prices
As gas prices continue to soar, the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee began airing a new television advertisement today highlighting the hundreds of thousands of dollars Gordon Smith has taken from Big Oil and his votes to give the industry billions of dollars in special tax breaks. The new ad comes as the DSCC also launched a new website www.BoughtByBigOil.com to expose Republican Senators’ support for policies that leave Americans paying higher gas prices while oil companies rack up hundreds of billions in profits.
“Gordon Smith’s campaign has been financed by the big oil companies that are making record profits at the expense of average Oregonians,” DSCC spokesman Matthew Miller said. “With hundreds of thousands of dollars of Big Oil money lining Gordon Smith’s campaign coffers, it’s no wonder he thinks they deserve billions in special tax breaks, but he is clearly out of touch with his constituents.”
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Posted August 1, 2008 in Economy, Smith Videos - 0 comments
Who Will Stand Up To Bush’s Attack On Women’s Health?
While Jeff Merkley, Ron Wyden and Barack Obama challenge the Bush Administration, Gordon Smith stays silent.
The Democratic Party of Oregon released this video today to encourage Republican U.S. Sen. Gordon Smith to join Jeff Merkley and Democratic U.S. Senators Ron Wyden and Barack Obama in protecting a woman’s right to choose.
Merkley and 28 U.S. Senators are battling the Bush Administration’s push to radically limit women’s access to contraception.
Merkley is gathering supporters to oppose the plan and encouraging thousands of people to speak out.
Wyden and Obama are two of the 28 U.S. Senators urging the Bush Administration to drop the proposal.
While Merkley, Wyden and Obama are standing up for women’s health, Gordon Smith, who has long opposed a woman’s right to choose, is noticeably silent on this issue.
“A spokeswoman for Smith did not return an email or two phone calls asking for Smith's comment on the proposed rule change affecting abortion. UPDATE ON FRIDAY: Lindsay Gilbride, spokeswoman for Smith, said there was ‘no real evidence it could be a reality ... so at this point, we aren’t going to speculate on it.’"
(Willamette Week, 7-17-08, Updated on 7-18-08)
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