Response to Sweeton re: Nan Hayworth
Mr. Sweeton provides partisan cover for Congresswoman Nan Hayworths dismal record in DC.
Yes, she ultimately voted to help devastated farmers after Hurricane Irene.
But not before insensitively causing needless, additional worry over whether she d break with Eric Cantor and the Tea-publican partys ransom demand - make equal cuts in federal spending before well release emergency funds. (Re-read her statements in Heather Yakins 8/31/11 Times Herald-Record article.)
Hayworths been on the wrong side of issues important to a plurality of voters in this district. Appallingly, this woman and physician, voted with great partisan zeal in favor of HR1, to defund Planned Parenthood which provides reproductive health services to thousands of lower-income women in her district.
She also voted: To terminate emergency mortgage modification and refinancing programs in HRs 830 and 836;
Against Continuing Resolution 28 accelerating troop withdrawal from Afghanistan;
Against subjecting (obscene) executive compensation to shareholder votes;
To repeal mandatory funding for school health centers and public health programs.
Voting in lock-step with Cantor and the radical right 90 percent of the time (opencongress.org), Hayworth didnt even bother to show up to vote for HR2 (fair minimum wage), HR4 (part D Medicare drug price relief) or HR5 (College Student Relief Act).
Hayworths not looking out for:
Women seeking affordable reproductive health resources.
Families struggling to keep their homes in this Banksters depression.
Deployment-weary service persons and their families.
Small shareholders, pensioners, retirees.
Minimum wage workers. Seniors on Medicare.
College students. Mr. Sweeton, you cant truly believe this record deserves another vote in November.
Anthony Vitiello Warwick