Rutledge For US Senate Press Release Feb 23

FOREST HILL, Maryland- Republican U.S. Senate Candidate Jim Rutledge announced his opposition to the Obama Health Care Plan that was released yesterday. Barbara Mikulski and Barack Obama continue to rush health care reform at the expense of the American people.

Rutledge stated, “Liberal Democrats like Obama and Barbara Mikulski have basically said the public be damned. Obama and Mikulski insist on spending billions of dollars for new bureaucracies in spite of overwhelming opposition by the taxpayers.” The President’s proposal calls for spending a billion dollars in the first year alone to implement the proposed health care policy changes.

Barbara Mikulski and the liberal bureaucrats in Washington refuse to address the urgent priorities that face our Nation. The American people want Congress to focus on rebuilding the economy by reducing spending and entitlement programs. Rutledge said, “Lifetime politicians like Barbara Mikulski have spent decades putting our nation in debt while telling us about everything they have done for us. The reality now is not what Washington has done for us, but what people like Barbara Mikulski have done to us.”

Jim Rutledge joined fellow Conservatives this weekend at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC). Rutledge said, “They were so enthusiastic about engaging the American people for the cause of freedom and the Constitution.” The Conservative event which boasted a record attendance provided a platform for the Rutledge for Senate Campaign to convey and share the outrage felt by Marylanders. Jim Rutledge summed up the event by saying, “They impressed me with their energy to challenge the failed thinking of leftist leaders in the Democratic Party and to advance the Republican Party based on the Constitution and Reagan- conservative principles.”