Joe vs Bean

Congresswoman Melissa Bean finally came out to face Joe Walsh and the people of the 8th District. On Wednesday October 20th, approximately 400 voters filled the Grayslake Central High School auditorium to witness a forum on the issues that concern the people of the 8th District. This will be I'm sure the first and last time Congresswoman Bean will face Joe Walsh. She tried to look brave but the crowd and questions were against her. Maybe it would have helped if she spent more time in the community she represents. She claimed that the people were much better off with her votes on the Health Care bill, Cap & Trade, and the Stimulus Bill. She believes Congress is currently headed the right direction.

If you want more of the same vote for her, if you want smaller government, less spending, and lower taxes vote for Joe.

Will Bean face the people?

The Walsh Campaign invited Bean to a series of single-issue, town hall style debates, covering a range of topics, including health care reform, jobs and the economy, and immigration and national security. The format of the debates would provide both candidates the opportunity to field questions directly from voters.

In 2002, when Melissa Bean was challenging Rep. Phil Crane, she issued an open letter to Crane’s campaign urging him to debate the issues so the voters could be educated about his voting record. In October of 2002, she wrote:

“So there is no confusion as to my sincere commitment in educating the residents of our district on the issues, I will meet you any day, any time, and anywhere.”

Following her open letter Bean was quoted in a 10/11/02 News Sun article saying the following:

“There are those incumbents who want their records to be known and can stand on their records,” she said. “Crane is not one of them.”He knows his record is out of alignment with the people in his district, and he wants to fly under the radar and not debate me. I say, ‘Come on out Mr. Crane and let’s talk about the issues.’”

Joe Walsh commented on that letter and Bean’s related statements to the press, “It seems that Melissa Bean has ‘gone Washington,’ and she is now employing the same tactics she accused her predecessor of using. She is ducking debates and hiding from her record.”

Walsh formally reissued his debate invitation by saying, “The Eighth District does not support Melissa Bean’s votes for cap-and-trade, the Stimulus, or ObamaCare. Clearly, Melissa is out of touch. She does not want to give me or the rest of her constituents an opportunity to ask about her votes.”

Walsh concluded by saying, “Your constituents and my campaign are waiting to hear from you Congresswoman, I will meet you any day, any time, and anywhere.”

So far with the Chicago Democratic Party in charge of our State & Federal government this is what they have given us.

It is time that we stop this.

Have you met Joe yet?

State	August 2009unemployment rate	Projected Fiscal '11 Deficit as % of Budget
Nevada	14.3%	-54.0%
Michigan	13.1%	-9.2%
California	12.4%	-21.6%
Rhode Island	11.8%	-13.9%
Florida	11.7%	-20.2%
South Carolina	11.0%	-25.6%
Oregon	10.6%	-17.6%
Indiana	10.2%	-9.4%
Illinois	10.1%	-41.5%
Ohio	10.1%	-11.3%
Georgia	10.0%	-26.2%
Mississippi	10.0%	-16.1%
Source: Labor Department and CBPP

Congress vs the PEOPLE

Democrats try to paint Republicans and Conservatives as “out of the mainstream” and not representing the true feelings of the American people. New data from Rasmussen proves them wrong. Here are the hard facts per Rasmussen:

1) Only 29% of the American people think that our country is headed in the right direction

2) 64% of Americans think our country is headed in the wrong direction

3) 90% of Republican voters think that we are headed in the wrong direction

4) 70% of independent voters think that we are headed in the wrong direction

In another Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 62% of voters now rate Congress’ performance as poor,

But then 79% feel most members of Congress are more interested in helping their own careers than in helping people, higher than the findings on this question for all of last year but consistent with views since January. Just 10% say Congress is more sincerely interested in helping people.

Is there any question then on why Joe Walsh is doing so well in campaigning against Congresswoman Bean.

Medicare Fraud & Bean

The National Review

A Fraud Exposed — and Ignored

August 10, 2010 3:41 PM

By James C. Capretta

“Law Will Extend Medicare Fund, Report Says,” was the New York Times headline. “Medicare Funds to Last 12 Years Longer Than Earlier Forecast, Report Says,” was the similar take of the Washington Post. Those two stories were upbeat summaries of what the latest report on Medicare’s long-term financial outlook supposedly revealed.

But was that really the most newsworthy headline here?

How about the fact that the person who compiled all of the data for this report, and knows its contents better than anyone else, utterly repudiated its findings?

That’s right. Richard Foster, the chief actuary of the Medicare program and the man responsible for overseeing the production of the data which forms the basis of this annual report’s forecast, has advised the public — in his official “Statement of Actuarial Opinion” printed at the end of the trustees’ report — not to believe any of the modestly rosy conclusions contained within it.

It’s hard to overstate the importance of this development. Here is the president’s point man for assessing the financial status of Medicare declaring that much of the claimed benefits for Medicare from the recently passed health-care law — benefits that the president himself again touted on Saturday — are not to be believed. You’d think it might be news if the top expert in government essentially said the president of the United States was basing his public assertions on one of the most important issues of the day on flawed and misleading data. But apparently not.

Foster and his staff began exposing the fraudulent nature of the Medicare claims months ago. In their April analysis of the final health-care legislation, they agreed with the Congressional Budget Office and every other commonsense person that the same dollar can’t be spent twice. If the Medicare cuts in Obamacare are to be believed (a big “if”), they could be used to improve Medicare’s financial outlook, or to pay for another entitlement program, but not both. But of course Obamacare’s apologists continue to argue that both were financed by the Medicare cuts. The unfortunate consequence of this duplicity is that, eventually, taxpayers will be left holding the bag. At some point, they will be asked to pay higher taxes to finance Medicare spending as well as a new entitlement for health insurance, both of which were supposedly covered by the Medicare cuts.

Best of all Congresswoman Melissa Bean is proud of her vote on the Health Care Bill.

Have you met Joe yet?

Bean for Sale?

A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that just 23% of Adults share a favorable opinion of members of Congress. The same survey finds 72% have an unfavorable view of congressmen. These findings include 5% who have a very favorable impression and 45% who have a very unfavorable view of members of Congress.

Another separate Rasmussen national telephone survey finds that 70% of voters believe most members of Congress are willing to sell their vote for cash or a campaign contribution.

Our own member of Congress Melissa Bean as of June 30th has raised $1,628,045 for her own reelection to Congress. Of that amount 58% was raised from Political Action Committees (PACs). Who does Melissa Bean represent when a large portion of her contributions come from outside the district she is elected to represent?

All this compares with Joe Walsh who has accepted only 2% of his campaign funds from PACs.

Have you met Joe yet?