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Sunday, November 8, 2009

LEVESQUE: MICHAUD VOTES AGAINST MAINE SENIORS WITH SUPPORT OF HEALTH CARE BILL

LEVESQUE FOR CONGRESS

P.O. BOX 1387

Auburn, ME 04211

www.levesqueforcongress.com

MICHAUD VOTES AGAINST MAINE SENIORS

WITH SUPPORT OF HEALTH CARE BILL

Jason J. Levesque, candidate in Maine’s 2^nd Congressional District, issued the following statement in reaction to Rep. Mike Michaud’s announced support for H.R. 3962, the Pelosi health care bill:

“Mike Michaud voted to deprive Maine’s elderly of health care security by supporting a bill which cuts benefit payments to Medicare by $500-million and eliminates two-thirds of senior citizens from the Medicare Advantage program. Maine has one of the oldest populations in the country and he has turned his back on the needs of a key constituency.

“Mike Michaud sold out Maine working families, small businesses and Maine seniors by failing to take an independent stand against a bad bill. Instead of showing leadership and fighting for real health reform, he toed the line with the radicals in his party and supported a bill which will not provide a solution. His vote will take away health choices between patients and their personal doctors, expands government powers, creates dozens of new bureaucracies and sticks billions of dollars in new taxes on middle class families and small businesses.

“The mandates in the bill Michaud supported will put such a burden on small businesses that even more jobs will be killed as they’re saddled with the financial burden of $750-billion in new taxes to pay for this $1.4-trillion scheme, costing the loss of 5.5-million jobs.

“That’s unconscionable when the 2^nd District suffers from high unemployment, including Mike Michaud’s home town with 14.5-percent - one of the highest unemployment rates in the country.

“Mike Michaud had a chance to stand up for real reform of health coverage but he sided with his special interest cronies’ big government false solution instead. He has failed his constituents on another key vote and proved that he is nowhere near the fiscally responsible Blue Dog he claims to be by hiding people from his infamous voting record.”