Subject: VIDEO: Congressman Heck Receives Pyramid Award to Commemorate His Calling Social Security a Criminal Scam
From: Sarah Zukowski <[email-masked]>
To: Sarah Zukowski <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 20 May 2016 12:40:20 -0700

For Immediate Release

May 20, 2016

Contact: Sarah Zukowski, [email-masked]

VIDEO: Congressman Heck Receives Pyramid Award to Commemorate His Calling
Social Security a Criminal Scam

Watch the video of award presentation here
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-mywb8BN7Ps>

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Las Vegas, NV – Today, the NV Dems and Las Vegas seniors visited
Congressman Heck’s Congressional Office to present him
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-mywb8BN7Ps> with an award to remind him
that 5 years ago this week, he called Social Security a “pyramid scheme”
that “isn’t working.” The seniors reminded Congressman Heck’s office that
they are just a few of the hundreds of thousands of seniors in Nevada that
depend on Social Security to get by during their retirement.

In addition to comparing Social Security to a criminal scheme, Congressman
Heck (as per usual) supports his fellow Washington Republicans’ agenda for
privatizing Social Security and handing over seniors’ retirement funds to
the Big Banks and Wall Street. Yes, the same Big Banks that caused the
financial crisis and forced thousands of Nevada families out of their
homes. And, yes, seniors across Nevada and the country could have lost
their retirement security if Congressman Heck and Washington Republicans
had their way and Social Security was privatized.

“We hope Congressman Heck appreciates this award, but contrary to what he
says, the only ‘scheme’ when it comes to Social Security is his scheme to
privatize the program,” said Sarah Zukowski, spokesperson for the Nevada
State Democratic Party. “Congressman Heck should tell the hundreds of
thousands of seniors in Nevada who rely on Social Security for their
retirement security that he thinks the program is a criminal scam. Nevada
seniors need a problem solver like Catherine Cortez Masto who will fight to
ensure that current and future generations can rely on Social Security -
not Congressman Heck who wants to put the retirement security of Nevada
seniors in the hands of Wall Street.”

 <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-mywb8BN7Ps>

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