Ohio Voters Oppose Health Care Plan

January 26th, 2010

Betty Sutton is out of touch with her constituents.

"Survey Says..." - Betty Sutton misreads constituents, again.

I can clearly remember Betty Sutton and her representatives telling us that most of her constituents wanted the health reform she was so diligently working to pass.  Once again, polling data shows Sutton to be  – WRONG.

Ohio Right to Life has just released the results of an interesting survey.  The Wenzel Strategies telephone survey of 1001 Ohio registered voters found that 52 percent of respondents oppose the national health care reform plan currently moving through Congress.

In general, do you favor or oppose the health care reform plan under consideration by President Obama and Congressional leaders?

  • Strongly Favor 21.1 %
  • Somewhat Favor 18.6%
  • Somewhat Oppose 7.9%
  • Strongly Oppose 44.1%
  • Not Sure 8.4%

The Survey also found that 65 percent of respondents oppose provisions for taxpayer funding of abortions included in any reform package.  Of course, it is not possible for federal tax dollars to fund abortion, right Betty?

Do you think that health insurance that is paid for or subsidized by taxpayer money should include coverage for abortions, or should abortions be excluded from coverage in such situations?

  • Should Cover 22.1%
  • Should Not Cover 65.0%
  • Not Sure 12.9%

The poll questions were asked in conjunction with the Ohio Cultural Index. These results are available in their entirety  at www.ohiolife.org. The Index will be released on January 25. The survey was conducted January 8-12, 2010, and included 1001 Ohio registered voters contacted by phone. The poll carries a 95% confidence interval and a margin of error of +/- 3.07 percentage points.

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Smothering The Spirit of America

November 11th, 2009

Morning Journal Editorial Takes Betty To Task

Morning Journal Editorial Takes Betty To Task

The following was published as part of an opinion piece on The Morning Journal website:

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Passage of the massive and ill-conceived Democratic health reform bill in the U.S. House of Representatives came this past weekend with the help of Lorain County’s two representatives Betty Sutton and Marcy Kaptur, both Democrats. Kaptur also represents Erie County.

We hope for their sake those two will be fortunate enough to see this nanny state vision of health reform come to naught in the Senate, as appears likely. The goal of affordable health care for all is laudable, but even the House bill would not have delivered that result.

The House bill, if it were to become law, would initiate a process of government engulfing your life, making you dependent on government programs, and suffocating your independence.

Fortunately, at this point, it appears the House health reform plan will hit a stone wall of opposition in the Senate. But nothing can be taken for granted. Everything American is at stake.

Improve America’s vitality, do not smother its spirit.

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HR 3962, WTF

November 8th, 2009

Affordable Health Care for America Act

H.R. 3962 Sutton's Plan

H.R. 3962 Sutton's Plan

Well, she did it again.  Congresswoman Betty Sutton came down in the last hour just as we would have expected, against the best interests of the district, and worse yet, against the will of the people.

In a H.R. 3962 “fact” sheet posted on the congresswoman’s website, Sutton tells us this bill will cut the deficit by more than 30 billion dollars over the next decade and will continue to create a budget surplus over the next 20 years.

Betty’s Merry Men

Steve Driehaus OH-1 (D)
Marcia Fudge OH-11 (D)
Mary Jo Kilroy OH-15 (D)
Tim Ryan OH-17 (D)
Zach Space OH-18 (D)
Charles Wilson OH-6 (D)
Marcy Kaptur OH-9 (D)
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A Budget surplus?!? Wow, that sounds great!  Suddenly Betty is interested in fiscal responsibility.  Where was this idea when she and her cohorts spent us into the largest deficit in our nations history?

Now Rep. Sutton comes to us with a “Budget Surplus”.  Does she think anyone will actually believe this?  Even if it were true, Sutton and her band of merry men will quickly waste the “surplus” on other irresponsible spending sprees.  How about a tax cut for every American to prove that this surplus will really exist?  The tax cut can be effective immediately upon the final passage of health reform.

Sutton also tells us the cost of health care reform under the legislation is fully paid for by cuts in services and an additional surcharge on 550 households in the district.

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Surcharge?  Betty, are you trying to mislead people again.  The word is TAX.  You are placing an additional TAX on 550 families in OH-13.

I’m not as smart as you, so let me see if I have this right – You are raising TAXES on OH-13 residents to pay for a plan that will create a surplus?

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Let’s Kill Some Babies! H.R. 3962

October 30th, 2009

Wait for it…  wait for it…  here it comes…  LIE

lies

There we go.  I knew it was only a matter of time before overwhelming proof of Sutton’s abortion lie would surface.

Tele-Town-Hall 2009

Constituent – Joe from Avon:

60% of Ohioans oppose abortion. 70% of Ohioans oppose the use of taxpayer dollars to pay for abortions.  Both H.R. 3200 and the senate, that is the Kennedy bill, contain provisions for federal subsidies for abortion.  Will you refuse to vote for any healthcare bill that does not explicitly exclude federal funding of abortion?

Pinocchio Betty Sutton:

Thank you very much Joe. Um, let me, let me just first address something that you said in your, in the course of your question.  H.R. 3200 DOES NOT provide for the use of taxpayer funded, ah tax payer dollars to fund abortions.  And in fact it is federal law, ah that taxpayer funds are not allowed to be used to fund abortions.  Under the bill, that remains in tact.  Under the bill, federal funds will not be permitted to fund abortion.  So, I hope that that ah will, will clear up any misperception that exist that it is well understood in federal law that you can’t use taxpayer funds to fund abortion.  Thank you very much for the question.

So, Betty, if it’s “well understood” that taxpayer dollars cannot be used to fund abortion, why is the funding of abortion being discussed on the hill? Why was Rep. Lois Capps’ amendment included, but Stupak’s was eliminated?  Better yet, why did you vote yes on Capps, but no on Stupak?

Congressman Bart Stupak: And we’re just saying maintain the law that’s been on the books for 35 years and let’s live up to the President’s word.  No public funding for abortion in the health care plan, and we’re all happy, and we can go away.

CNS: Earlier on Thursday, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi released the nearly 2,000-page-long final text of the House health-care bill. The bill envisions creating “exchanges” in each state that would be the only place people receiving federal health insurance subsidies would be allowed to buy insurance. It also includes an amendment by Rep. Lois Capps (D-Calif.) that would require that at least one health insurance plan in each of these exchanges cover abortions. Stupak’s proposed amendment would nullify Capps’ by stating that no federal money could pay for any part of any insurance plan that covers abortion.

NPR – Rep. Jan Schakowsky: “Comprehensive health care does include reproductive health care, prenatal and maternity care, screening for breast, cervical and other cancers or [sexually transmitted infections] abortion, contraceptive services. That these are basic health care for women [emphasis added] that we have a right to by virtue of our reproductive organs and our right to control our own bodies.”

Sounds like a lot of people missed your Tele-Town-Hall.

Catholic Online – Kristen Day, DFLA Executive Director: “I want to be clear, pro-life Democrats want to help pass health care reform but our coalition can in no- way support reform that includes tax payer funded abortions. If the leadership will remove that language, we feel confident that we can deliver enough votes to help put this much needed reform over the top in the House.”

“We believe in a big-tent Democratic Party, but to not allow Hyde language to be included in health care reform would force some pro-choice and pro-life Democrats to vote against health care reform. If we add this language, we believe we can help Speaker Pelosi get the votes to pass this legislation.”

OneNewsNow – Marjorie Dannenfelser: “It does this by funding premiums from private insurance plans that do cover elective abortions. Current law says that no federal funds may go to subsidize private health plans for elective abortion.” She concludes that “this bill would change all that.”

Earned Media: Democrats For Life of America (DFLA) announced today that they have 40 votes that will vote against the House health care reform legislation if tax payer funded abortion language is not removed from the bill.

I understand that killing children in our poor communities is right up your alley, but why go to such lengths to mislead your constituents.  Just say it like it is.  Here, I’ll help you. Repeat after me.

I, Betty Sutton, support the killing of poor children in OH-13. I promise to vote yes on any bill that will promote and or fund the elimination of poor children.

There, that wasn’t so hard.

Congresswoman Sutton, the good old days when you could freely lie and mislead the people of OH-13 have come to an end.  We are not going away.  We will hold you accountable for your words, and your action.

For the record, you never answered Joe’s question. What a surprise.

Further reading on this issue

An excerpt from : Tax Dollars Shouldn’t Fund Abortion – Wall Street Journal – Charmaine Yoest

WSJ: The Capps Amendment would side step the Hyde Amendment and other provisions in federal law. If it becomes law as part of health-care reform it would make abortion coverage a part of the public option, funnel tax dollars to private health plans that cover abortion, and ensure that every area of the country will have at least one health insurance plan that covers elective abortion. If this should happen, for the first time in more than 30 years the federal government would be in the business of funding the destruction of unborn human life.

The Capps Amendment sets up an accounting mechanism that is supposed to make sure that federal dollars do not directly pay for elective abortions. But this is a dodge. Federal dollars would still subsidize insurance plans that pay for abortions.

Here’s the actual amendment voted on by Betty Sutton’s Subcommittee on Energy and Environment: Capps

SUMMARY: A “compromise” amendment backed by committee chair, Rep. Henry Waxman (D-CA) that yielded some ground to pro-life concerns about mandated abortion coverage in private plans, preemption of state abortion laws, and retention of federal conscience laws. However, it weakened the application of the Hyde Amendment funding restrictions and had provisions to ensure that abortion is included in the public plan.

In favor of Capps with a YES vote, our very own Betty Sutton!  The congresswoman’s yes vote came prior to the Tele-Town-Hall.

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Pelosi’s Puppet

October 29th, 2009

Pelosi's Puppet

Pelosi's Puppet

Let’s Review:

  • The right does not want this health reform
  • The middle does not want this health reform
  • Now, the left does not want the health reform

So, who is Betty trying to please with her “yes” vote on health reform?

Excerpt from David Swanson’s: Healthcare Hoax from Hell:

A conversation I had with Congresswoman Betty Sutton is typical. She told me that the Kucinich Amendment was no big deal and shouldn’t be paid any attention to. She said she wanted everyone to focus on the Weiner Amendment on which she planned to vote yes. Asked if there was any chance the Weiner Amendment would pass, she replied of course not.

From Congresswoman Sutton’s point of view, a bill that will fail is far more important than a life-saving measure in a bill that might pass, because she planned to vote right on the former and brag about it to her constituents. “See, I tried. I really tried.” But if Sutton’s state, Ohio, passes the bill currently making its way through the state legislature and establishes single-payer for all Ohioans, the death panels, aka health insurance companies, will sue. And without the Kucinich Amendment they will win or at least hold things up for several years and several thousand deaths.

Will Sutton or any other members of Congress fight for either of these amendments? Will any of them call out Pelosi? Forcing the Kucinich amendment back into the bill and forcing a floor vote on the Weiner amendment are admirable immediate goals (as of now Pelosi will be allowing no floor amendments of any sort), but healthcare is very complex with the devil in the details, and the details are being written by devils, blood-soaked devils. The central demand of members of Congress must be: Vote No. The reason they should have to listen must be: We will occupy your offices and prevent you from working unless you commit to voting No, but if you commit to voting No and vote No, we will consider possibly not throwing your sorry ass in the street in next year’s elections.

We may disagree with the left on why this reform must fail, but at least we’ve found some common ground in wanting it to fail. The truth is, Congresswoman Sutton is not a principled woman, and she cannot be trusted to do what’s right. No one in OH-13 should expect the Congresswoman to actually represent our concerns – left or right.

Sutton, in her pursuits of power, has become nothing more than a puppet for her party’s house leadership. Her votes go as Pelosi instructs.

For once, I am with you David Swanson. Let’s through her sorry ass in the street in next year’s elections.

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Big Government

October 4th, 2009

CatholicVoteAction.org

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Betty Sutton, We Are On Our Way

September 10th, 2009

Betty Sutton

Congresswoman Betty Sutton,

The people are coming to Washington. We’ll be there soon. Are you ready?

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Betty Sutton, Pay Attention.

September 8th, 2009

Betty Sutton

Dear Congresswoman Betty Sutton,

The game is about to change.  The people have had enough.  We are bringing our grievances directly to your Washington D.C. door step.

You can hide.  You can cower in fear of the truth.  You can conspire with your leadership against this district.  But know this, we are coming.  We will surround your palace.  We will be heard.

We the People

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Betty “hear no, see no, speak no” Sutton

August 30th, 2009

Betty Sutton

Hear no constituents, See no constituents, Speak to no constituents

The good people of Ohio’s 13th House district continue to wonder, “Where’s Betty?“

Last week, Betty Sutton, who is described by her staffers as very busy, found time for face to face meetings with anonymous residents of the district, but she has yet to find time for any public gatherings.

Looks like residents of Medina got tired of waiting.

LORAIN – The discontent of some against the nation’s leaders made its way to Lorain on Friday when 10 people from five cities and four different groups delivered a letter and a petition to U.S. Rep. Betty Sutton’s office.

Members of the groups say they believe legislators aren’t reading bills before voting on them, and that they aren’t voting in accordance with the views of their constituents.

The letter and the petition demands both, and it also seeks to have Sutton to post online any bill she’s voting on at least 72 hours prior to the vote so constituents can read the bills and give feedback.

A representative from her office also said Friday that the group’s opposition to changes in health care isn’t what Sutton’s staff hears every day from callers pleading for reform.

Medina Gazette — read more

Betty’s people want us to believe that most residents of the district support Sutton’s health care reform. Yet this is far from the truth.

In a phone call placed Thursday morning following the Tele-Town hall, it was revealed by a staffer in the Lorain office that Sutton had face to face meetings with more residents who are against HR3200 health reform than in favor of it.  You would never know this based on the stories Sutton told during her August Tele-Town.

Despite Sutton’s attempts to convince us that HR3200 is good medicine, Americans are against it. Poll after poll shows a growing majority of citizens oppose the current reform proposals.

Will Betty Sutton have a change of heart and begin representing the wishes of the 13th district? No. It was clear from her Tele-Town responses that Betty is a strong supporter of HR3200. She made up her mind long ago and has no interest in representing the people.  On this issue, Sutton would prefer not to hear, see, or talk to the citizens of her district.

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