Dreier Votes Yet Again to Deny Kids In California Health Care
Today David Dreier voted for the second time in the last few weeks against the reauthorization of SCHIP which provides health care for more than one million children in California including tens of thousands in the Foothill Communities Dreier represents.
Russ Warner a Democratic Candidate from Rancho Cucamonga launched a multi media campaign earlier this week to demand that Dreier stand up for health care for kids and to educate Dreier's constituents about his record on this critical issue. Attached is a newspaper ad, a recorded message call and a blast email that went to tens of thousands of voters in CA-26 asking them to call Dreier and demand that he vote to offer health care to kids in need.
Although the State Children¹s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) bill
originally passed in both the House and Senate, President Bush vetoed the
legislation earlier this month. Congress met today, voting on a veto
override, which fell short by 13 votes, including Dreier¹s no vote.
Compromise legislation is currently in the works, but it¹s unclear what will
happen to the 850,000 children who receive health care coverage through the
SCHIP program in California, called Healthy Families.
³Mr. Dreier continues to support funding the war which costs us nearly
$450 billion but he is unwilling to invest in California's kids,² Warner
said. ³He should stand for children and not with Big Tobacco and President
Bush.²
Taxpayers in the 26th Congressional District will have paid $1.3 billion for
the cost of the Iraq War through 2007. For the same amount of money, health
care could have been supplied to 149,373 children, according to the National
Priorities Project. The proposed expansion of the program calls for an
increase in the tobacco tax, raising the federal levy to $1 per pack, a
61-cent increase.
Warner announced his run for Congress in June, saying he is taking on the
fight because the war in Iraq must be stopped and because America needs new
leadership with fewer career politicians like Dreier. The devastating cost
of the war was brought home to Warner and his family in a personal way.
Warner's son Greg served in Iraq for seventeen months.
To find out more about Russ Warner and his campaign for Congress, visit
www.WarnerforCongress.com or call 909.837.9474.
