Paul Ryan's Would-Be Challenger Launches Hands Off Grandma Site

[Donnachaidh]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/04/12/paul-ryan-challenger-hands-off-grandma_n_848121.html

WASHINGTON -- Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) is taking his first political hit back home for a budget plan that critics say will hurt elderly Medicare beneficiaries.

Ryan, who chairs the powerful House Budget Committee, unveiled a proposal last week to start reining in the deficit in part by reconfiguring Medicare as a voucher-like program where seniors would get subsidized private insurance. The Congressional Budget Office found the move would cost seniors more.

Now Kenosha County Supervisor Rob Zerban is using that finding to help drum up support for his campaign to defeat Ryan.

Zerban, who announced his campaign just over two weeks ago, has launched a new website dubbed handsoffmygrandma.com, which turns the tables on the argument, popular among Republicans during the health care reform battle, that Democrats wanted to ration care for the elderly.

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[Donnachaidh]

1. self kick n/t

[OHdem10]

2. Just a side note. In the state SCJ race, Kloppe took Ryan.s

district 60/40.

[rurallib]

7. question I was just going to ask. Thanks for being psychic

:P

[Greybnk48]

3. K&R for getting rid of Ryan.

[xchrom]

4. yay! good news! nt

[Donnachaidh]

5. my opinion -- Wisconsin needs to get behind ANYONE who can take this Reagan fascist out.

I want to see him drunk on a curb the day after the vote.

[malaise]

6. K & R

for grandma

[Hotler]

8. kicking n/t

[eleny]

9. I like the "deer in the headlights" picture of Ryan at Zerban's new site

http://handsoffmygrandma.com/