Letters to the Editor About Terri McCormick
The following letters to the editor were published about Representative McCormick by her constituents and supporters. If you want to submit a letter to the editor, please contact us for ideas or suggestions.
Promising No More Bailouts?
Vilas County News-Review
July 2010
On July 21, President Obama signed the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act into law. The president promised, “There will be no more tax-funded bailouts — period.”
Wisconsin’s 8th District Congressman, Democrat Steve Kagen, voted for the bill.
Echoing the president’s remarks, in an e-mail to his constituents, Congressman Kagen said, “It’s official: There will be no more bailouts.”
Congressman Kagen claims he did not vote for the bank bailout program. He is misrepresenting his voting record.
When the $700 billion TARP bill, aka the bank bailout bill, passed the House of Representatives on March 5, 2008, Congressman Steve Kagen voted aye. After the Senate amended the legislation and it came back to the House for final passage on Oct. 3, 2008, only then did Kagen vote against the legislation.
Steve Kagen voted for the bailout before he voted against it.
In his e-mail, Congressman Kagen also said, “In Wisconsin, we do not reward people for losing other people’s money.”
Too bad Congressman Kagen didn’t share this philosophy when he voted for the bank bailout before he voted against it; or when he voted for the stimulus bill; or when he voted for the cash-for-clunkers program; or when he voted for cap-n-tax; or when he voted for ObamaCare.
I have a message for Congressman Kagen: “In Wisconsin, we do not reward people for losing other people’s money.”
On the right side of the political spectrum, Terri McCormick is a constitutional conservative who won’t sell out her constituents to advance a political career. With a proven track record of accomplishments in both the public and private sector, I believe Terri is the best choice to replace Steve Kagen in Congress.
On Sept. 14, I will be voting for Terri McCormick for Congress in the Republican primary to oust Congressman Steve Kagen from office.
Kerry Thomas
Sayner
Eighth District Needs New Representation
Peshtigo Times
March 27, 2010
Letter to the Editor:
The Eighth Congressional District should be of great concern to all of us being this is where we work and live. Being a small business owner in this district I meet and talk with many people every day. The majority of folks I talk with are opposed to Obamacare, the governmental takeover of health care or so called socialized medicine.
Congressman Steve Kagen was one of the first politicians to promote the bill on the House floor during the vote last week. Congressional candidate Terri McCormick correctly called out Mr. Kagen for using his status as a physician to push Democrats to vote for this harmful legislation.
Terri McCormick has the name recognition having ran against Mr. Kagen in 2006. Her current polling numbers against Mr. Kagen are excellent. McCormick is the best suited and the only Republican candidate positioned to defeat Mr. Kagen this November. Do we really want to send another drone to Congress to support whatever new entitlement program the party chooses? Republican primary voters have the opportunity to take back our district for the people once and for all. Send McCormick to Congress to fight. She won’t go down without one.
DJ Johnson
Marinette
McCormick can help country create change
Appleton Post-Crescent
November 9, 2009
With all the enthusiasm for change, tea parties and government accountability, I hope the average citizen is getting ready to get involved in the political process. With mutual respect and a focus on issues, the debate can be educational and enlightening.
However, for the past few decades, our voices have been muted by special interests and large organizations because they have the financial power.
What have expensive campaigns and special interests given the citizens of this country? A government so big that it isn’t transparent. A government not accountable to the taxpayer but groups that siphon its money. A government that cannot manage its own programs and debt but thinks it can run business better than the private sector.
And big government’s solution was to allow failed organizations to run pretty much as they were when they collapsed. Was anyone held accountable for these businesses’ failures and huge economic impact on the taxpayer?
The challenges that lie before this country are not insurmountable, but we, as individual citizens, need to take action. We need to voice our opinions respectfully. We need to support candidates who want to stand by us as individual citizens, not beholden to special interests. We need to provide these candidates with financial support.
I want to support candidates who understand our freedoms are based on our Constitution and amendments. I want to support candidates who show they can stand up to special interests and keep the citizens’ interests first and foremost. I want to support a candidate who also looks at the facts and gathers information to make wise decisions that benefit all citizens, not just a few.
That’s why I’m wholeheartedly encouraging Terri McCormick to run for Congress. I encourage others who know Terri to pledge their support. Together, we can create change.
Deb Matz
Appleton
Vets know McCormick stands up for them
Appleton Post-Crescent
October 13, 2009
I served in Vietnam and know what it takes to honor the people of this country. Like all veterans, we have put service over self and country and over family probably more often than we should.
That’s why I’m taking a leap here and calling on one of our leaders to come join us in the fight to take back our congressional seat. With all due respect, this isn’t about political party affiliation. It’s about getting the right man, or in this case, the right woman for the job.
We need a congressional representative who knows what it is to fight and what it is to hang in there when the going gets tough.
That is what Terri McCormick did for all of us as a representative in the state Assembly. We counted on her to stand against her own party in 2006 so that we could finally get the property tax exemption for combat disabled vets that the rest of the country had. Terri didn’t flinch. She stepped into the line of fire and took it for us.
We weren’t asking for ourselves. We were asking for the veterans who were coming after us, the men and women coming home more banged up than at any other time – those without arms, legs and eyes who can’t work anymore.
In these hard economic times, we need Terri McCormick more than ever.
We need her to join us again in the fight for better jobs and better housing. I know she will figure out how to get us there.
I have never heard her say, “I’m taking the easy way. I’m running for office because it’s owed me.” No, Terri has always taken the hills that are the hardest to climb, and that is why we need her now.
Bob Everson
Appleton
