Shocking News! Democrats Lie!
The ads are tough — and misleading, with a series of images depicting suffering cancer patients. The glossy mailings say Heck, a physician, voted against requiring insurance companies to include cervical cancer screenings in their basic coverage, even as he accepted campaign donations from insurance companies.
“Dr. Joe Heck took money from insurance lobbyists and voted ‘no’ to cervical cancer screenings,†one ad said.
That statement, and at least one other in the mailings, appears to be incorrect. Insurance companies have been required by the state to cover screenings for cervical cancer since 1989, according to the Legislative Counsel Bureau, the research arm of the Legislature. The ads don’t have citations, but seem to refer to legislation from 2007, though the bill had nothing to do with cervical cancer screening. The 2007 Legislature passed a law authored by state Sen. Dina Titus requiring some insurance companies to cover Gardasil, the vaccine for the human papilloma virus, a precursor to cervical cancer.
http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2008/sep/11/anti-heck-ads-mislead-voters/I seen one of the ads, it shows a lady in a hospital bed...what a dirty trick.
"Why is the state Democratic Party spending hundreds of thousands of dollars and haven't even mentioned the name of the candidate?" -Robert Uithoven, campaign manager for Sen. Joe HeckThe Dem's even have a website:
www.ToHeckWithUs.com
