Who does Senator DeWine Represent?
The Sunday, March
19, 2006 [Plain Dealer] article, "Sen. DeWine
returns to campaign kitchen," attempted to
portray the Senator as a moderate nice-guy, but
DeWine's actions just three days earlier belie
that image. On Thursday, March 16th, in a
little-publicized Senate vote, DeWine voted in
favor of an amendment to the Budget Resolution
that would have begun the privatization of
Social Security. The amendment,
introduced by Sen. Jim DeMint, R-SC, would also
have bankrupted the program for disability and
survivors' benefits. Only seven votes
saved Social Security from going down the road
to privatization. Clearly, DeWine's vote
proves that his allegiance is to the radical
right wing ideology of the Republican Party and
not to the people he purports to represent in
Ohio.
Pam
Miller
Medina,
OH