Coleman can’t win on any issue so he flat out lies about them. Today he came out with a new disgusting ad. The Pioneer Press’ Rachel E. Stassen-Berger explains:
The ad says that Coleman, “voted against his party to let Medicare negotiate with drug companies.” While that describes a 2007 bill, which Coleman indeed supported, Coleman also voted for the 2003 bill which created the Medicare drug benefit and banned the federal government from negotiating with drug companies for all Medicare beneficiaries. The 2003 bill is the law; the 2007 bill was blocked by Senate Republicans and did not pass. (Earlier this week, Coleman spokesman, Mark Drake said this to explain the 2007 vote, “The legislation included important protections for seniors’ access to drugs and pharmacies, as well as including critical transparency provisions, which previous drug price negotiation proposals did not.”
The ad also says Franken, “opposed prescription drugs for seniors.” That depends on your perspective — Franken has said he would have voted against the 2003 Medicare bill because, he said, it was”written by industry lobbyists.” He has also said that he wants to change the bill to allow negotiation.
The whole ad is horrible and leads viewers to actually think the opposite of what is true. Absolutely disgusting.
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In this YouTube version at least, Norm’s picture fades in toward the end of the 29th second of a 31-second ad. Scofflaw!
So this is a Norm Coleman issues ad? He voted correctly when he knew the bill would fail but voted with the lobbyists when the vote really counted.
It is time for Norm to go!