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?