29
Sep
2014
Des Moines, IA - Braley for Iowa Campaign Manager Sarah Benzing issued the following statement after tonight's US Senate debate:
"The big story of the night is that Joni Ernst admitted during the debate that her personhood constitutional amendment would outlaw abortion and ban common forms of birth control, while Bruce believes that medical decisions are best left to women and their doctors.
"Tonight's debate displayed the clear contrast between Bruce Braley's work to find common sense solutions that move our state forward and Joni Ernst's radical Tea Party ideas that would take us backwards and are wrong for Iowa.
"While Bruce Braley has spent his career protecting Social Security, Joni Ernst would privatize it and put it in the hands of Wall Street bankers. While Bruce Braley continues working to strengthen Medicare, Joni Ernst supports plans that would end Medicare as we know it and leave Iowa's seniors out in the cold. While Bruce Braley will fight to increase the federal minimum wage, Joni Ernst doesn't even think there should be one, believing that Iowans deserve just $7.25 an hour and can survive on $15,000 a year. And tonight Joni Ernst tried to deny that she supports a plan to impose a 23 percent national sales tax on all Americans, raising taxes on gas, groceries, and everything you buy.
"The contrast between the two candidates has never been more clear."
"The big story of the night is that Joni Ernst admitted during the debate that her personhood constitutional amendment would outlaw abortion and ban common forms of birth control, while Bruce believes that medical decisions are best left to women and their doctors.
"Tonight's debate displayed the clear contrast between Bruce Braley's work to find common sense solutions that move our state forward and Joni Ernst's radical Tea Party ideas that would take us backwards and are wrong for Iowa.
"While Bruce Braley has spent his career protecting Social Security, Joni Ernst would privatize it and put it in the hands of Wall Street bankers. While Bruce Braley continues working to strengthen Medicare, Joni Ernst supports plans that would end Medicare as we know it and leave Iowa's seniors out in the cold. While Bruce Braley will fight to increase the federal minimum wage, Joni Ernst doesn't even think there should be one, believing that Iowans deserve just $7.25 an hour and can survive on $15,000 a year. And tonight Joni Ernst tried to deny that she supports a plan to impose a 23 percent national sales tax on all Americans, raising taxes on gas, groceries, and everything you buy.
"The contrast between the two candidates has never been more clear."
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