Subject: [big campaign] Release: Signers of today's GOP letter to Obama rake in insurance, health money
From: David Donnelly <[email-masked]>
To: "[email-masked]" <[email-masked]>, David Donnelly <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 08 Jun 2009 16:27:53 -0400
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News Release

For immediate release: Monday, June 8, 2009
For more info: David Donnelly, 617-899-1084

SENATORS WHO SIGNED LETTER OPPOSING PUBLIC HEALTH PLAN TOOK $17.7 MILLION IN
CAMPAIGN DONATIONS FROM HEALTH CARE AND INSURANCE INDUSTRIES
 
Public Campaign Action Fund analysis finds than nine Republican Senators
took nearly $2 million on average over their careers
 
Washington, D.C.  The nine Republican Senators who sent a letter today to
President Barack Obama to express their opposition to a central part his
health care plan have benefited greatly from health care and insurance
industry donations, a new analysis from Public Campaign Action Fund shows.
 
The Senators have collectively taken $17.7 million from insurance and health
care interests, according to data analyzed at the Center for Responsive
Politics website, opensecrets.org. That amounts to nearly $2 million per
Senator over their careers.
 
³Americans want a government that is responsive to our needs, not a Congress
that listens to its donors from the insurance and health care industry,²
commented David Donnelly, national campaigns director of Public Campaign
Action Fund. ³These Senators appear to be carrying water for their donors at
the expense of advancing health care reform.²
 
All nine Senators sit on the Senate Finance Committee, which is actively
engaged in debating health care reform. The nine signers include Senators
Chuck Grassley (R-IA), Orrin Hatch (R-UT), Jon Kyl (R-AZ), Jim Bunning
(R-KY), Mike Crapo (R-ID), Pat Roberts (R-KS), John Ensign (R-NV), Mike Enzi
(R-WY), and John Cornyn (R-TX). Senator Olympia Snowe (R-ME) was the
committee¹s only Republican Senator not to sign. Sen. Snowe has taken $1.1
million from the same interests, less than all but two of the signers.
 
Public Campaign Action Fund is a national nonprofit dedicated to
comprehensive public financing of elections, and to holding anti-reform
politicians accountable for the favors they give to their wealthy donors.

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