Owens Sets New Record - Breaks 4 Campaign Promises in 1st 24 hours in office  |
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 Voters in the 23rd district in NY have the right to be a little confused today. The Democrat they elected in a close race with the Conservative candidate has done an about-face on the positions he ran on.
http://www.gouverneurtimes.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=7623:owens-to-break-campaign-promises&catid=60:st-lawrence-news&Itemid=175
"Mr. Owens stated today that he will now vote in favor of those things contrary to what he had promised the voters of NY's 23rd Congressional District that he would vote against."
He also stated in his campaign that he was not in favor of cuts in Medicare, new taxes on the middle class or insurance for illegals.
"Both FactCheck.org and the Congressional Budget Office agree that HR 3962 contains potentially hundreds of billions of dollars in planned cuts to Medicare, yet Mr. Owens indicates that he supports this legislation and says that it does not cut Medicare benefits. Either Mr. Owens has been snowed or the public is about to be.
HR 3962 also includes a range of various taxes on middle-class families as well as language to repeal tax relief already in place."
The majority of residents in the 23rd district do not favor the health care reform bill as it is now written and it is possible or even likely that the few thousand votes that won him the election might not have been cast his way if the public had known his true intentions.
Is this the way of politics these days? We know that politicians often break promises, but do they now lie to get into office so they can pursue their own personal agenda? Can anyone defend this type of political shenanigans even if they support the health care reform? Don't the voters deserve to know the intentions of the candidate before they vote for him?
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1.  xfahctor (5535) | 2 months ago |  Wow, get that man a job on the white house staff!
this is just too friggin funny. So NY23rd....hows your arse feeling today? a little mider than it was on elecdtion day? Hey, it's their district, they had a chance to toss out both major parties and they blew it.
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| xfahctor (5535) | 2 months ago | "mider" ...should have read "wider" | |
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| Rollo1 (1621) | 2 months ago | It looks a bit like a set-up to me. Obama plucks the Republican out of the seat to serve in an administration job then they run someone who pretends to be against the public option and the health care bill until he's elected, at which time he switches to the Obama agenda. Seems like stacking the House if you ask me. | |
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 Taskr36 (4637) | 2 months ago |  Sorry X, but I think he has to be responsible for a minimum of 5 figures in tax evasion to qualify for white house staff. I agree though, NY23rd really freaking blew it. This was their big chance to show what happens when both parties screw them, but all they did was invite a candidate who screwed them again within 24 hours. Frankly, the punishment fits the crime.
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| kdhartford (942) | 2 months ago |  I agree. I hope that NY23rd does not discourage other third party candidates. The only way to begin a viable third party going is to really start winning local elections. It will take a mighty big shovel to uncover all the crap in Washington!
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| xfahctor (5535) | 2 months ago | I wonder if NY has a recall process. | |
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| Rollo1 (1621) | 2 months ago | I think we all know that politicians do what they think is expedient rather than what they promise, but this is just a little too blatant to be someone who is reconsidering his position based on changing circumstances. This looks like a set-up. The only reason they had a special election is because Obama appointed the Republican who was in that office to a job in the administration. Then the Dems run someone who lies about his positions on the issues. | |
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| Taskr36 (4637) | 2 months ago | In some places they can have a recall or vote of no confidence when an elected official so blatantly violates promises he made as a candidate. I know they have those laws in Louisiana and they have them in some form in California. | |
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3.  kennyrose (4061) | 2 months ago |  Was it the 23rd district that had a door open before them to keep corrupted politicas out side the door but choose this demoracte canidate,was it over Doug Hoffman a Washington out sider?
New York is under some of the hiohest tax in the U.S. it has been report one million people have left New York because they can not afford to live there,oh will if it was a legal voting proceess the voters who voted for Owens deserve to be starved out,maybe next time around the voters will wise up.
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| Rollo1 (1621) | 2 months ago | It seems to me that the people of NY23 were cheated out of their votes by purposeful misleading information from the Democratic candidate. They had their votes and their choices stolen. I hope they have a recourse. | |
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4.  matersfish (852) | 2 months ago | Regular people deserve far better than politicians are willing to give them.
On places like myLot, it's evident that a lot of us are into blaming the other side and taking no responsibility for our own. But this is the kind of thing that should be uniting people against government in general.
Not wanting to be lied to is not a right vs. left thing. I cringe at the thought of a myLot admin defender coming in here and saying, "Well, your side does it too!! blah blah blah!!"
It's enough of this crap from ALL politicians.
Everyone should ask themselves one extremely simple question: How good are these policies for America if the politicians must heavily and shamelessly promote them through propaganda, smear the opposition relentlessly, and even resort to out-and-out trickery and blatant lying to pull in one more supporter?
Is this what any of us want in America!? | |
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| Rollo1 (1621) | 2 months ago | Well, since the current propaganda would label me a racist, right-wing terrorist, Christian rabble-rouser of angry mobs, my opinion on shameless smears might be slightly biased.
If you're afraid to say you're going to vote for a piece of legislation and vow that you won't in order to get elected, you're not worthy of office. Better to lose because the voters disagree with you than to win by lying through your teeth. This is not politics as usual, it's something much more sinister. | |
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5.  solared (856) | 2 months ago |  I believe there has to be a way to fight this, but anyways seem like politics as usual among the dems...
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| Rollo1 (1621) | 1 month ago | If they have any method of recall, they should use it on this guy. | |
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