UPDATE: Pete Sessions compares being female to being a smoker

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Saturday November 07, 2009 · 7:23 AM PST

2009/11/07 · 07:23

Despite repeated campaign promises to always be in the District on weekends, Pete Sessions is working overtime today to kill health care reform.

His latest outburst on the House floor drew "a burst of chatter" in the room, kind of like it does in bi-partisan settings here at home when Sessions gets stuck for an answer and says the first thing that comes to mind, usually a tangent about "socialism" or "Nancy Pelosi."

In his latest gaffe, Pete Sessions defended the insurance industry's practice of charging higher rates to women, comparing the practice to charging higher rates for smokers. Transcript over the jump...

From Courthouse News Service:

In promoting the House health bill, New Jersey Democrat Frank Pallone made reference to discrimination by insurance companies, citing their reluctance to insure people with preexisting conditions and differences in costs based on gender. "But that's not against the law," Texas Republican Pete Sessions said.
Pallone replied, "No, but we would make it against the law. Why do you have a problem with that?" he asked. "Why should a woman pay more than a man?"
"Well, we're all different," Sessions explained. "Why should a smoker pay more," he said before getting interrupted by a burst of chatter throughout the room.

So, in Pete's mind, being a woman is just like being a smoker--being female just a destructive habit some people pick up that the rest of us shouldn't pay for.

Please help TX-32 get rid of Pete Sessions by throwing a few bucks to his Democratic Party Challenger, Grier Raggio.

UPDATE #1: Just checked Grier Raggio's Act Blue Page, and he's up to ~~22 Supporters and $2,460~~ 39 supporters and $2,970! Good work so far! Pass the link along to anyone else you know who'd like to throw in a few bucks. Changing the nation really does start by changing districts like TX-32.

UPDATE #2: alpolitics just wrote a diary about Pete Sessions' Democratic Party opponent, Grier Raggio. Check it out at this link: Change TX-32 (Pete Sessions) - Change the Nation - Meet His Dem Opponent

UPDATE #3: Thanks to Rep. Louise Slaughter for dropping by and posting this video clip of Pete Sessions' comment.

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