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12 questions for District 19 candidates
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Sunday,
April 11, 2010
Voters in Broward and Palm Beach will head to the polls Tuesday to replace U.S. Congressman Robert Wexler in the 19th District, who resigned effective January 4, 2010. Three candidates have stepped up to replace the outgoing Democrat: Ted Deutch, Edward Lynch and Jim McCormick.
Online news affiliate, BrowardNETOnline.com, interviewed all three candidates this week to enable Broward voters a more informed choice when going to the polls.
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1) Tell us briefly about your background and how that qualifies you to be a U.S. representative. What do you bring to the table that is unique?
Deutch: I’ve spent 20 years as a business lawyer and involved in the business community. I’ve spent all my adult life working for organizations, volunteering for community organizations that help seniors and kids live decent lives. I’ve spent thepast four years in the Florida state senate where worked across the aisle with Republicans and Democrats to deliver results—I’ve stood up to special interests and have gotten things done. That’s what people want—they want Congress to put people first and that what I’ve always done.
Lynch: My experience in having a business, in the number of people I’ve hired, creating jobs, fighting against the federal government, that’s experience others don’t have. We don’t need another attorney as a politician in Washington D.C.—there are enough of them.
McCormick: I’m a Florida native—the only one in race, a small business owner, father and I think right there that should give me a very good reason to run for U.S. Congress. I’m tired of the out of control spending in Washington, with no plans for reducing the national debt. I decided enough with that and that I was going to run.
2) Have you read the health care bill in its entirety? Tell us briefly what you like or don’t like about the bill. Once in office, how will you help your constituents understand its impacts?
Deutch: I did read the health care bill. I like that for seniors it’s going to close the donut hole and make prescription drugs more affordable, crack down on insurance company abuses, provide coverage for 100,000 people in the district who don’t currently have any and provide tax credits to help small businesses provide health insurance. I hope at this point, rather than going through another nasty debate about whether to repeal all of worthwhile provisions, I hope to work to help create jobs, not spend another year working on health care when what we ought to work on is helping to create jobs.
To read the remainder of the interview, click on BrowardNETonline.
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