Kapanke for Congress Press Releases
Thu, 06/10/2010 - 11:49
Kapanke: Voters Know Better Than to Trust Politicians Pushing ObamaCare
For Immediate Release: June 10, 2010
For information, contact: Jill Hemmersbach (608) 782-4326
13-year incumbent Congressman Ron Kind continued his all-out campaign for the trillion dollar health care bill he championed, in spite of widespread opposition.
"Costs are higher, premiums are going to go up more, and deficits are exploding thanks to the failed health care bill Congressman Kind is now championing," said Kapanke. "We need to repeal and replace this bill with reform that targets costs, protects quality of care, and doesn't bankrupt our country."
Recent polls have shown eroding support for the partisan health care bill enacted by Congress. Despite this sentiment, Kind is using the powers of incumbency bankrolled by taxpayer money to host White House officials, layer in scripted telephone town halls, and produce press releases applauding the health care bill.
"People have figured out career politicians who have made empty promises and expanded government until it is about to burst," said Kapanke. "I'd like to know how many people contacted Ron Kind to ask him to oppose the health care legislation. I don't believe for one-minute seniors facing huge cuts in Medicare will be satisfied with Kind's new spending programs he is touting."
Kapanke has outlined his reforms to replace ObamaCare online at http://www.kapankeforcongress.com
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Thu, 06/03/2010 - 16:39
Kapanke Statement on Kind's Campaign for ObamaCare
For Immediate Release: June 3, 2010
Contact: (608) 782-4326
"Today, Congressman Ron Kind is bringing in White House administration officials in a continued attempt to convince us that more government involvement in health care is the solution.
For over one year, people throughout the Third Congressional District were loud and clear about the health care takeover Kind supported - they didn't want it. Now instead of listening to Western Wisconsin last winter, Congressman Kind is going to lead a campaign to convince us that he knew best, and he's got Washington bureaucrats to prove it.
Kind should start by explaining how a $500+ billion dollar cut in Medicare will help seniors, especially as ObamaCare creates new entitlements that taxpayers simply cannot sustain. Then he should explain how the new taxes to fund ObamaCare on Western Wisconsin businesses like John Deere and 3M, are going to help us with our nearly double-digit unemployment rate.
We need real health care reform that addresses affordability, and doesn't just shift costs to taxpayers and job providers. That requires new leadership in a broken Congress, and it is why I am running to replace Ron Kind in November."
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Tue, 06/01/2010 - 13:07
Congress: Moving to Finally Restrict International Travel
For Immediate Release: June 1, 2010
For information, contact: (608) 782-4326
After years of largess documented by the
Wall Street Journal in a May 2010 article (http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405274870395080457524275114241301...), Speaker Nancy Pelosi has set forward new rules on overseas trips. Third District Congressional Candidate Dan Kapanke (R-La Crosse) has highlighted a $12,145 trip taken by 13-year incumbent Ron Kind and a guest to Italy and Switzerland funded in part by Wall Street insurance giant AIG. Kind took the all expense paid trip after voting to deregulate Wall Street and before he voted for the Wall Street bailout.
"Congress is out-of-touch with everyday working men and women," said Kapanke. "The luxurious trips paid for by taxpayers and Wall Street donors are rightfully breeding contempt at a time when unemployment is nearly 10% and families are making their dollars stretch further. The Wall Street bailout vote was the last straw for a lot of people."
If elected to Congress, Kapanke has vowed to serve no more than 8 years and would give back his federal pension to taxpayers.
"Congress should not be a career, it should be about public service," said Kapanke. "I’m 62 years old. For me it is not about moving up the political ladder and getting the perks that go along with it. I am running because we desperately need to reverse course in Washington, D.C. Our federal government is too big, too bloated, and threatens our nation’s future. Western Wisconsin needs new leadership, not a Congressman that votes with Nancy Pelosi nearly 93% of the time."
In addition to the $12,145 trip Kind took in 2006, Kind’s campaigns have been bankrolled by Wall Street donors with $181,600. More information can be found online at http://www.wallstreetandronkind.com.
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Mon, 05/24/2010 - 15:22
Kind’s Bailout Vote, Trips to Italy & Switzerland, and Campaign Cash
For immediate release: May 24, 2010
Contact: (608) 792-9669
"We really ought not be taking any contributions from Wall Street banks who are the ones that got us into this and who we’re trying to reform right now."
- Congressman Ron Kind, even as he accepts $181,600 from Wall Street firms
A May 19, 2010 report by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (http://www.jsonline.com/news/statepolitics/94362189.html) contained that statement from 13-year incumbent Ron Kind in defending his giveback of Goldman Sachs money. However, as Third District Congressional Candidate Dan Kapanke has highlighted and is contained within the report, Ron Kind has accepted $181,600 of donations from Wall Street firms. Many of these Wall Street financial institutions benefited from Kind’s vote to bail them and are subject to federal regulation.
"Ron Kind needs to giveback more than just $1,000 if he wants to be straight-forward about the role Wall Street has played in bankrolling his campaigns," said Kapanke. "Kind voted to deregulate these same Wall Street firms and then after his vote helped create our financial mess, he voted to bail them out with our tax money. Meanwhile, Kind’s campaign coffers are loaded with Wall Street cash."
To highlight the donors and recipients of Kind’s bailout, Kapanke has put together a website: http://www.wallstreetandronkind.com. Before the financial meltdown and after Kind’s vote to deregulate, Wall Street insurance giant AIG helped pay for an all-expense paid trip for Kind and a guest to Italy and Switzerland.
"It’s clear that Congress is not working for the people," said Kapanke. "People need a clear picture of who is bankrolling Kind, what his votes were, and how it’s hurting us - that is exactly what http://www.wallstreetandronkind.com does."
Last week, Kapanke outlined his 5 point plan for tough financial reform that would end bailouts, too big to fail, reform credit ratings, and revamp Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae. Many of these items were largely ignored in the bill pending before Congress now.
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Tue, 05/18/2010 - 10:07
Big Government and the Fed Food Police
A column by Dan Kapanke, Candidate for the Third Congressional District
For Immediate Release: May 18, 2010
For information, contact: (608) 782-4326
Our Congressman, 13-year incumbent Ron Kind, has created a lot of stir with the national media and online commentators by championing a proposal to require every child ages 2-18 to have his/her Body Mass Index (BMI) tracked in a national database. If you thought the federal government was involved in too much and too big now, you have not seen anything yet!
First some quick background: BMI is an arbitrary calculation of weight and height to determine if someone is considered overweight. Kind’s bill would rely upon health providers to collect data of children at doctor visits. The information would be stored by the federal government in a national database.
I can think of a few really good reasons why the federal government should not get into the business of being food police for our children. The first is fairly obvious to me. The federal government has no business constructing a database of such information. If one believes in just the basics of limited government espoused by our Founding Fathers, this idea should be rejected.
Secondly, where are we headed with such a proposal? It hasn’t been that long since Ron Kind voted with Nancy Pelosi to expand the power and scope of the federal government into our health care. Now, Kind is setting the stage to empower the Federal Food Police as part of an ever increasing Nanny-state.
And lastly, I am confident that most people will start asking - where does the spending stop? In the past few years, Congress has embarked on a multi-trillion dollar spending spree. If you really want to look out for kids, Congress should make fiscal restraint a priority. Instead of going back to the credit card to spend more to measure every kid’s BMI, the most appropriate and best thing Congressman Kind and others could do would be to reverse their spending ways. Unfortunately, it is more of the same.
Voters will have the choice this November to reverse course. Big government is stifling economic growth and threatens future generations with a crushing debt-load; and Kind’s bill is yet another clear example of runaway government growth that we don’t want, can’t afford and quite frankly, is better left for parents.
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