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Published Wednesday, Sept. 22, 2010 | 1:47 p.m.
Updated Wednesday, Sept. 22, 2010 | 1:55 p.m.
The gloves are off.
Less than two weeks after Republican Congressional candidate Joe Heck said he wanted to run an "upbeat, positive" campaign, he released a television commercial calling Democratic incumbent Rep. Dina Titus a liar.
"Blatant fear mongering. Manufactured nonsense. Independent news media confirm Dina Titus and her out-of-state liberal friends are lying about Joe Heck," the ad states. "They're lying to distract from Titus' failed record."
Heck's ad responds to commercials released on behalf of Titus that portray Heck as dangerous to women because he 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 previously said that he doesn't believe in negative campaigning. But he also said that in this race, he will not let attacks go unanswered. Heck lost a 2008 re-election bid for the state Senate.
Titus' campaign accused Heck of bashing Titus to hide his "extreme" agenda.
“In his latest ad, Sen. Heck once again fails to offer any real solutions to the challenges facing Southern Nevadans," Titus spokesman Andrew Stoddard said. "While Dina Titus is out there every day saving families’ homes and working to bring funds to the community that will help create jobs, Sen. Heck is trying to hide his extreme agenda, one that undermines Social Security, gives tax breaks to big banks, and puts insurance companies ahead of people."
As a Democrat, I am expected--we can argue whether the expectation is reasonable--to disavow anyone linked to my party who says something absolutely insane (my favorite was that George W. Bush was responsible for the September 11 attacks, and while I think his irresponsibility contributed, these people meant that the government set up the whole thing). We should expect nothing less from Republicans.
Well, Senator Heck, you are a doctor. Is your opinion of autism the same as Sharron Mangle's?
Titus likely cut a deal for herself in exchange for her 11th hour vote to approve Obamacare.
When she loses to Heck, she'll end up with a sweet govt. appointment for that vote.
"While Dina Titus is out there every day saving families' homes and working to bring funds to the community that will help create jobs"
The highest home foreclosure rate in the nation, the highest unemployment rate in the nation..... Dina has failed. If we want to continue to fail, by all means, vote for her. She was given a chance and things have only gotten worse.
Dina Titus voted for the disasterous ObamaCare bill.
Enough said!
Ms. Titus cannot defend her record so she starts the dirty campaigning. It won't work this time.
Send Joe Heck to Washington to help straighten out the mess Obama & Reid made.
JanK said "Dina Titus voted for the disasterous ObamaCare bill. Enough said!
No that is not enough. Many disagree that Health Care Reform is a disaster. You post your conclusions on here regularly but you never give facts and analysis to support your conclusions.
From what I know about Health Care Reform, which I admit is limited, I do not see it as a disaster. Share with us the specifics that cause you to so view it as such.
As to Ms. Titus, please share with us specifics that you lead to believe that her campaign is "dirty". Has she lied? Does Dr. Heck oppose vaccination coverage or not?
to lvrider...
the health care bill is a disaster becasue everythihng Obama said it would not do, it does,and vice versa i.e. you get to keep you previous doctor... you can't; you don't get to keep medicare advantage as they are now cutting it, they are now funding abortions when they said they wouldn't, they said it would 'only' cost under a trillion dollars, then 'revised' the cost to 1.2 after it passed... I could go on and on. How do you not see this?
As for the lies Titus told, they are indeed lies. There was never a vote on cancer screening or a cancer vaccine, that was a pure, unadulterated lie. It was a vote to mandate insurance coverage for a vaccine for venereal warts, which 95% of insurance companies already do! He voted against it becasue the pharmaceutical company fast-tracked the vaccine testing and limited it to older women, and, I think 1200 tests. Then ok'd it for girls as young as 11! Now, there are thousands of documented cases of side effects, some life long as well as deaths associated with the vaccine! I say shame on DIna Titus for making Dr. Heck's INFORMED vote as a physician a political ploy to garner her votes. She should hang her head in shame as a woman especially, not caring about the pain and suffering many of these young girls now have to go thru for the rest of their lives. Dr. Heck was ahead of the times in knowing that the limited research and testing of this vaccine might not fare well to the patients, and he voted accordingly. He should be praised for caring enough about the well-being of these girls, not vilified. I'll bet if Dina Titus had daughters of her ow, she would be singing a differrent tune. And shame on those women who choose to believe her lies without educating themselves first!
As for the social security issue, he never said that, he said people should have the opportunity to take a portion of their money and invest it to get back social security funds, tax free, while still having to pay into the system so as not to take funds away from the coffers. Sort of investing extra money you might have, in addition to the regular ss payments. that's it. it never addressed women specifically, which is also what she said, which, again was a lie. She's a terrible woman who would sell her mother to the devil for votes. You have to be fair and call a spade a spade in this case, regardless of the party you belong to, right?