As a candidate, U.S. Rep. Chip Cravaack criticized health-care reform even as his wife appeared on behalf of Novo Nordisk, the largest diabetes pharmaceutical company in the world, at Vermont's Health Access Benefit Management Plan in September 2010.
Once elected, Cravaack's family moved to New Hampshire, in part, so his wife could be close to her pharmaceutical company job as he voted for the Ryan budget plan, which threatened to devastate health-care reform, Medicare and Medicaid. The Cravaack-supported Ryan budget plan put the "nuns on the bus" to explain its unfairness.
Hypocritically, Cravaack's campaign literature states he will protect Medicare and Medicaid while his website admits "the nation's premier health-care companies" named him their "champion."
DFL-endorsed Rick Nolan represents us, the 99 percent. Four terms of seniority in Congress provides important votes for health care, fair taxes increasing slightly the tax rate for couple's income in excess of $250,000, and jobs. Nolan supports rebuilding our infrastructure, creating more than the 1.4 million jobs that the Cravaack/Ryan plan would cut.
On Aug. 14 vote Rick Nolan in the primary to get rid of the Republican House majority this November.
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Joseph M. Boyle
International Falls
The writer is chairman of the Koochiching County DFL. This letter was published Monday. It is being republished today because an editing error by the News Tribune caused an inaccuracy. The News Tribune regrets the error.
