Jack Conway, apparently aware that voters in Kentucky care about the viability of Social Security, just sent this, via e-mail:
LOUISVILLE – U.S. Senate candidate Jack Conway today called on Alan Simpson, former U.S. Senator from Wyoming and current co-chair of the bipartisan National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform, to resign from the budget and fiscal panel after ill-informed and offensive remarks about Social Security and its future.
Supporters can sign Conway's petition for Alan Simpson to resign at www.JackConway.org/SocialSecurity.
This week, in a message to a Social Security advocacy group, Chairman Simpson described Social Security as "a milk cow with 310 million tits."Conway said that the remarks showed clearly that Simpson is not approaching the problems of solving the long-term budget situation - especially concerning Social Security - in a serious and thoughtful manner.
Conway said, "Senator Simpson clearly is not approaching the serious challenge of solving the long-term solvency of Social Security withserious solutions. Instead, he’d rather use offensive language to make headlines. Rather than serve as a distraction to the rest of the group, the Senator should step down."
"I call on Rand Paul – not his spokesman but him personally – to disavow Senator Simpson’s comments. We can be fiscally responsible without harming seniors or privatizing Social Security." Conway added.
Conway has outlined a series of steps to cut nearly a half a trillion dollars off of the federal budget, including ending tax breaks for companies that ship American jobs overseas and allowing Medicare to purchase prescription drugs in bulk.
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