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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