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Published Wednesday, Sept. 8, 2010 | 12:12 p.m.
Updated Wednesday, Sept. 8, 2010 | 5:06 p.m.
EMILY's List, a national group that helps pro-choice Democratic women get elected, launched a campaign today in Nevada's 3rd Congressional District against Republican House candidate Joe Heck.
The WOMEN VOTE! campaign, which will run for at least two weeks, is designed to encourage women to vote for Democratic incumbent Rep. Dina Titus. With television commercials and online media, it highlights Heck's record on women's issues -- particularly health.
"The simple fact is: Joe Heck voted against requiring insurance companies to cover a life-saving vaccine for cervical cancer," campaign director Denise Feriozzi said. "Joe Heck played politics with women's health instead of ensuring that they have preventative care that can save lives."
EMILY's List is rehashing a two-year-old claim that cost Heck his 2008 re-election for state Senate.
In April 2007, Heck voted against a bill that would have required insurance companies to cover a vaccine for the human papillomavirus (HPV), a precursor to cervical cancer. Heck said he opposed the legislation because he didn't want to force insurance companies to take on more mandates that could drive up the cost of insurance.
"This from a man who graduated from medical school," a voice in a WOMEN VOTE! commercial says. "If we can't trust Heck with our health, can we trust him with our future?"
A television ad released last month by the AFSCME union used a similar attack, calling Heck "dangerous to women."
The WOMEN VOTE! campaign specifically targets women ages 18 to 49. Commercials will run on cable TV channels such as the Food Network and Bravo. The campaign launched a website, www.nevadawomenvote.org, and will use social media outlets such as Facebook and Google. Ads also will run on Hulu during shows including Glee, 30 Rock and Grey's Anatomy.
"Women voters are critical in this election, and we are confident that this campaign will motivate women to get to the polls," Feriozzi said.
Communications Director Mari Nakashima defended Heck's vote and record.
"As a doctor and patient provider, Joe used his experience to honestly analyze the full scope of a mandate that ultimately effected and raised insurance premiums for every woman, man and child across southern Nevada," Nakashima said. "Titus’ allies can try and save her by ruthlessly and falsely attacking Joe, but Nevadans know that as their healthcare premiums begin to rise this fall due to Obamacare, it was Dina Titus who sided against Nevadans and on the side of her leader, Nancy Pelosi."
Another Sociolist.progressive Group out to spread lies and misinformation from outside the state. I am pro-choice but these Twezods are worse than Pol-Pot. They want to get the carpetbager georgan Titus re-elected to complete the destruction of our country.
Another shameful political tactic and I'm a Titus supporter! Joe Heck is an honorable and decent man. He's been an outstanding elected representative, IF you agree with his political views. I don't, so I'm supporting Titus. Is all this other crap really necessary? Do we really have to hate and/or demonize the other candidate?
Any woman (or man for that matter) who can look herself in the mirror after voting for Joe Heck should be ashamed. I had to contact Rep. Titus' office once and received IMMEDIATE attention. Imagine an elected official who really serves the people who put her in office...what a concept. I have a hard time believeing that a Republican doctor would have saved as many homes from foreclosure as Dina Titus has. Titus is a real public servant and shows it through ACTION not through canned political talking points. We need Titus; not only is she brilliant, but she is a true woman of the people, not an elitist snob. This one is a no-brainer.
These campaigns are such a joke (yes, I realize this is from an "independent" special interest group, but we all know the campaigns are heavily involved). I don't support/oppose either candidate, but these ads are so over the top that you can't take them, or the group that paid for them, seriously.
Politicians and the people involved in their campaigns are the scum of the Earth; here's more proof.
Joe Heck is another sheep for the republican backers. We need women's care here because many women are without health care. If a child is born with problems, Nevada tax payers have to pick up the tab with the woman's care too. Then she is helped to a point and it is alot more expensive. Preventive care is the best care. Teen pregnecy is high here and the teen mothers and baby end up with you and me paying for it. Health care is needed badly. And do not forget older women. If they cannot take care of themselves, it is state Medicaid and Medicare that makes the bills. Preventive care early is cheaper and gives a healthier life and happier too. A happy woman makes a home happy. Remember that gentlemen.
What a bunch of you-know-what! Titus needs to go!!
NoLongerADemo: Are you a woman? If you are then you must have had it easy in life. If not, you have no idea(unless you're a gynochologist,then maybe) what a woman's body goes through. I have suffered with PMS and now menopause for most of my life. If I had better preventive care and had help in knowing herbals sooner, I may not need estregen now. If a teen has preventive care with a doctor in the beginning, she maybe won't get pregnet and if so, her baby will be healthy and not cost a fortune for us. STATS PROVE THIS! AND it would also show compassion for the human race. It has been proven that preventive care is cheaper and healthier.
Quoyn520, Take you anger and read the story about a week ago written by Sun writer Anjeanette Damon.
She completely debunks these ads. Take your anger out on the manipulative womens organizations instead of misplacing it here.
Read the report, have some herbal tea and relax.
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I am a woman who will vote for Joe Heck and I will look myself in the mirror just fine afterward. As smartone618 said, Joe is an honorable and decent man (and a great doctor to serve with). Jon Ralston, Anjeanette Damon, Factcheck.org, and many others, have all debunked the ads. It's just typical politics. If you truly educate yourself on the issues and choose to vote for Titus, I can respect that. You can't base your votes off of stuff you "learn" on political ads put up by PAC's. You are doing yourself (and others) a serious disservice if you do.
@improveLV - There is no such thing as "independent","non-partisan" or other similar type language. Every one is partisan with their own interest. 40% of the voters will vote REID because they are union hacks or leeching off the Govt.
If you want to improve LV we must eliminate Harry Reid this Nov. It is that simple. They have both proven to be an unmitigated disaster.
getalife: the ad maybe wrong but he did vote against coving preventive care by the insurance companies in 2007. My statement is about having preventive care and if women can afford it, we would have a better life. He agreed with the insurance companies and women were left with no option because they cannot aford it. Perhaps, I could have phrased the 1st sentence better but he did back the insurance companies. As for Demo, he/she needs to look at the facts that teen pregnecy and women not taking care of themselves is a big problem here in this state. Especially when many women jobs are about there bodies. Showgirls, coctail waitresses, and demo jobs are about the look, not the health. To just state that the facts are wrong is not enough. My temper was short, I agree but what I want him/her to do is prove his/her statement that I am wrong. Thank you for bringing back into tolerance.
as for bookofdoubt: I am voting for Senator Reid, I am not a union member, and I am unemployed but not collecting any benefits. So, I don't fit your statics. And if I did, benefits from the gov't like pensions which were earned for working for years, insurance to cover illness and accidents, social security to help seniors not be hungry and homeless, and unemployment to get through the rough spots, I don't consider leeching. As for union hacks? What's a hack? Do you mean a hacker who is a computer wiz who is in a union, working for a living.
http://vimeo.com/14425309
@Quo - You are the other 1/2 % that will vote for Reid. You boy Reid is a loser. Good Luck.
Get ready for the slaughter coming to a neighborhood near you. Even the liberals are starting to admit to it.
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/nilega...
I support this. Why does insurance cover viagra but denies coverage for many procedures and meds required by women?
Joe Heck is another republican loser.
HELP SAVE NEVADA AND OUR COUNTRY,
VOTE DINA TITUS.
I really don't see the issue with Joe Heck. People need to stop putting so much focus on womens' health issues. There are more important things to worry about first.
icy1007 part of this crisis is health care being too high. Womens issues are a big part of this problem because we do need more health care then men. We are the one's who carry life and it is hard and dangerous if not healthy. It is also costly. The other is senior care for both. It eats the budget and other important life supports like food and housing are less or none exsistant. Check the stats. Preventive care is important and needed. It is a big part of the full picture of this crisis.
getalife, Anjeanette Damon and Ralston got the HPV issue wrong. Their knowledge of the HPV issue seems to be in the "nothing" range.
http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2008/sep...
http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2010/aug...
The women on here make Dr. Heck out to be the seven-headed hydra from the deep. Did you bother to see that your Princess...Dina Tax...err..Titus voted for Obamacare? And did you happen to see that a new gub'ment study now says that Avastin is too expensive to give to women with breast cancer? Where's the outrage at Dina Titus for voting for legislation which contains a de facto death panel arrangement that will tell women what care they can and cannot have for breast cancer? Lemmings......all of you.