[The following is a post from Valerie Martin, my campaign manager]
First our mortgages and now our retirement accounts – is there anything Kelly Ayotte won’t hand over to Wall Street?
Over the weekend, Ayotte said we should keep "all ideas on the table" when it comes to reforming Social Security.
Unfortunately, this wasn’t too surprising. Ayotte’s campaign has been supported and orchestrated by Republican politicians in Washington – those very same Republicans, from John Cornyn to Mitch McConnell, who have been advocating disastrous ideas for Social security for years.
Ayotte and her supporters want to raise the retirement age and slash benefits. They want to privatize Social Security and put the value of our hard-earned retirement accounts at the whim of Wall Street.
Ayotte doesn’t seem to get it, but we do. We watched Wall Street gamble away our savings, retirement accounts and education funds. And then we watched their executives score million-dollar bonuses while our economy went on the brink of collapse. While Paul Hodes worked hard to stand up for middle class families and reign in reckless Wall Street abuses, Kelly Ayotte opposed it. And now she wants to let Wall Street gamble with Social Security.
Unfortunately, if there’s one thing a typical Republican politician likes, it's the special interests. And Kelly Ayotte is proving to be no different. She’s happy to hand over the retirement accounts of New Hampshire seniors to big banks all while they fill her campaign coffers with contributions.
As a Senator, Paul Hodes will never vote to raise the retirement age. He will fight to make sure our seniors get the full benefits they have earned, and he believes that letting Wall Street gamble with the financial security our seniors have spent a lifetime earning is wrong. It’s wrong for New Hampshire and it’s wrong for this country.