Kuhl votes against Mental Health Act
Call it identifying with your captors: Randy Kuhl has yet again identified with Bush instead of his constituents and has voted in lockstep with Bush by voting against the Paul Wellstone Mental Health and Addiction Equity Act of 2007. From Progressive Democrats WNY blog:
Yesterday, Randy Kuhl voted against the Paul Wellstone Mental Health and Addiction Equity Act of 2007 in yet another lock step Bush vote. Earlier this year, Kuhl stood against SCHIP health care for millions of children on four separate occasions, and now he stands against helping families receive access to critical mental health and addiction treatment. Kuhl, who has received thousands of dollars from insurance lobbyists, has a long history of standing with big business and against families of Western New York .
Why is it more important to Kuhl to protect big business at the expense of the very families that have voted him into office? Furthermore, Kuhl has great coverage as a member of Congress yet he votes to deny it to his constituents:
(From a memo by Reps. Patrick Kennedy and Jim Ramstad)—Coverage of all diseases covered by Congressional plans. The plan or coverage must cover the same range of mental illnesses and addiction disorders covered by the federal employee health plan that Members of Congress use.
Kuhl once again identifies with his captors (the Bush administration). Why doesn’t he think his constituents deserve the same coverage he gets? And why would his constituents continue to vote him into office?
This identifying with your captor thing may stretch farther than we realize.
I hope Eric Massa makes a list of all the things that Randy has voted against and mails them to voters during the election campaign. I suppose he could also add the great work that Randy Kuhl did in getting the money for that bowling alley in Canandaigua.