per Alan's latest email:
Dear "Roland99",
It looks like the drug companies don't like me.
No, strike that. It looks like the drug companies really, really hate me. And they'll do everything within their power to get rid of me.
Which is why I need your help. Please contribute to our campaign, and show the drug companies that we're sick - sick of them!
This month, the "60 Plus Association" is pouring over $600,000 into negative ads against me. And who is the "60 Plus Association"? The American Association of Retired Persons (AARP) has "outed" "60 Plus" as a front for PhRMA, the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America.
Holy Harry and Louise! We're being attacked by Big Pill!
Who should choose our elected officials - us, or the giant drug companies? It's time to give Big Pill a bad case of acid reflux.
Do you know what message Big Pill is using to numb, sedate, narcotize and stupefy the electorate? It's the shocking revelation that I voted for health care reform. Which Big Pill says will cut $500 billion from Medicare benefits - a total lie that FactCheck quickly exposed.
Next month, who knows what Big Pill will spend to defeat us? $1 million? That's the profit that Merck, a single drug company, makes every hour.
Every. Hour.
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Truth,
Alan Grayson
60 Plus
http://www.60plus.org/about/Who We Are
Founded in 1992, the 60 Plus Association is a non-partisan seniors advocacy group with a free enterprise, less government, less taxes approach to seniors issues. 60 Plus has set ending the federal estate tax and saving Social Security for the young as its top priorities. 60 Plus is often viewed as the conservative alternative to the American Association of Retired Persons (AARP).
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Our Leadership
* Chairman: James L. Martin
* President: Amy Noone Frederick
* National Spokesman: Pat Boone
1992, eh? Wouldn't have been an attempt then to thwart Clinton's efforts toward national health care?
more:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/60_Plus_AssociationI finally saw one of their ads on local TV this weekend. I was laughing my ass off at it. But yet I was shedding a tear for the frail-looking senior citizens who did their best at acting like the most bitter of any Terrorist Party members following their Beck and call.