Sunday, June 10, 2012

June 10th, 2012 Edition





WFAA NEWS
Cruz: Texas Needs a Fighter in the U.S. Senate Race
Associated Press
June 9, 2012

FORT WORTH (AP) — Tea party favorite Ted Cruz has told the state Republican Convention that the race for Texas' open U.S. Senate seat will test the question, "Do grassroots matter?"

The former state solicitor general said Saturday that his July 31 runoff with Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst should continue the tea party "tidal wave" that began in 2010.

A Cuban-American attorney with a fiery, populist style, Cruz is locked in a fierce battle for the Republican nomination to replace retiring U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison.

Dewhurst, who has been lieutenant governor since 2003, is the establishment GOP choice.

The pair face a runoff after neither won a majority of the votes cast during last month's primary.

Cruz said Dewhurst deserves respect for his long record of service, but "we need a fighter."

Read more: wfaa.com


NEWSMAX
Obama Colluded with Drug Companies to Keep Drug Prices High

by Patrick Hobin
June 9, 2012

A new trove of emails shows President Barack Obama’s White House agreed to help drug companies block a proposal to bring down medicine prices so they would back Obama’s healthcare plan. 

House Republicans obtained the three-year-old correspondence between the Obama administration and representatives of the drug industry and released more of them to the public on Friday, The New York Times reported. 

The exchanges show the compromises as they were being negotiated that laid the groundwork for the health care law now awaiting the judgment of the Supreme Court.

The Times reported that in 2009 drug industry lobbyist — concerned after weeks of talks about a proposal for the reimportation of prescription medicines at lower prices — e-mailed White House health care adviser Nancy-Ann DeParle about the matter. 

DeParle assured the lobbyist, according to the Times, saying that athough Obama was overseas, White House officials had “made decision, based on how constructive you guys have been, to oppose importation” on a different proposal.

In the end, the drug industry agreed to provide $80 billion to expand health coverage in exchange for protection from policies that would cost more, the Times reported.

The paper said Obama felt the deal had to be made if he was to be successful in getting his healthcare proposals — nicknamed Obamacare — accepted.

Read more: NY Times: Obama Colluded with Drug Companies to Keep Prices High


THE WASHINGTON POST
Republicans casts race for Giffords’ House seat in Arizona as referendum on Obama’s policies
The Associated Press
June 10, 2012


Support: Gabrielle Giffords (left) campaigned for her former aide Ron Barber (right) as he makes a bid for her former Congress seat in Arizona
Rep. Giffords (Left), Ron Barber (Right)
PHOENIX — Republicans are focusing on President Barack Obama, not Gabrielle Giffords, and sensing a chance to capture the former congresswoman’s seat in southern Arizona.

Voters are deciding in Tuesday’s special election whether Republican Jesse Kelly, who narrowly 
lost to Giffords in 2010, or Democrat Ron Barber, a former Giffords aide asked by the lawmaker to pursue the seat, will complete the remainder of her term 

Voters are deciding in Tuesday’s special election whether Republican Jesse Kelly, who narrowly 
lost to Giffords in 2010, or Democrat Ron Barber, a former Giffords aide asked by the lawmaker to pursue the seat, will complete the remainder of her term 

Giffords relinquished the seat in January to concentrate on her recovery from a gunshot wound to the head. Giffords and Barber were injured in the January 2011 shooting rampage outside a Tucson grocery store that killed six people, including a 9-year-old girl and a federal judge, and wounded 11 others.

Giffords largely has shunned public appearances in the race, but in the closing days is stepping out to help Barber. She joined the candidate at a get-out-the-vote rally Saturday.

Holding onto the seat is crucial for Democrats if they want to regain control of the House.

The party needs a net gain of 25 seats in November to grab the majority from Republicans, who now hold a 240-192 advantage with three vacancies, including Giffords’ seat. Reflecting the closeness of the Arizona contest, Democrats made a last-minute appeal for money that referred to Kelly as a “radical tea party Republican” and said Barber would fight to continue Giffords’ legacy in Congress.

Read more: http://wapo.st/LLhTaN


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