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Statement from Capps Campaign in Response to NRCC Ad
WASHINGTON – Today, Capps Campaign Spokesman Randolph Harrison issued the following statement in response to a National Republican Campaign Committee political ad buy in Congresswoman Capps’ congressional district. The content of the ad has been thoroughly discredited by the Washington Post’s Fact Checker, which gave the ad “4 Pinocchios”, its most acute rating for errors and obvious contradictions in an advertisement.
According to the Washington Post: “the most extreme plan Capps is accused of supporting appears to be a reference to the oft-repeated claim by Republicans that Dems support doing nothing on Medicare — a claim that Post fact checker Glenn Kessler recently debunked. The ad’s claim that the “media” says the Dem “plan” would “decimate Medicare” is a reference to a single editorial in Investor’s Business Daily that makes the more general claim that Dems “would decimate Medicare by default.”
Randolph Harrison’s statement follows.
"The people of the Central Coast know that Congresswoman Capps has been a champion for protecting Medicare in Congress. She voted against the Republican plan to turn Medicare into a voucher program because she knows how important guaranteed access to health care is for seniors and their plan would end that guarantee. She's also worked hard to strengthen Medicare by helping pass the Health Care law that will close the "donut hole," end co-pays for preventive care, and extend the solvency of the program—advances that the Republican plan would roll back. And she is going to keep up that fight on behalf of her constituents. Congresswoman Capps also knows that false ads like this one from Washington political groups pushing partisan agendas are part of the problem in politics today. Probably more important to Central Coast residents than seeing ads that grossly distort someone's position would be to hear where any candidate running for Congress stands on the Ryan plan to privatize Medicare. She's against it and it would be good to know where any of her so-called opponents stand on the issue.