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2012 VOTER GUIDE

SEE WHOS PROTECTING WHAT WEVE EARNED INSIDE.

WORKING FAMILIES CONGRESSIONAL

A message from your union

Important issues affecting our health, children and retirement are at stake in this years election. Learn where the candidates stand.
Jobs
Your friends and neighbors understand how important this election is. Extremists in Congress are systematically attacking working families. In order to pay for tax cuts for the wealthy and increase profits for CEOs, they are ready to: Cut retirement and benefits working families have earned. Slash education funding and put college out of reach for middle-class families. Protect tax breaks for companies that ship jobs overseas. How you vote is a personal decision. Your union believes Mark Critz is the best choice for working families. For more information visit www.aflcio.org.

Keith Rothfus
Keith Rothfus explicitly endorsed the unfair trade deal with Colombia, and declared, I believe in free trade, even while admitting there are labor and environmental concerns. (Wexford Republican primary forum, 5/3/10)

Mark Critz
Mark Critz voted against unfair trade agreements with Colombia, Panama and South Korea that could cost the United States more than 200,000 jobs. (H.R. 3078, Vote 781, 10/12/11; H.R.
3079, Vote 782, 10/12/11; H.R. 3080, Vote 783, 10/12/11; Economic Policy Institute, 2/25/10)

Education

Keith Rothfus spoke out against renovations for two aging elementary schools that were facing rapid growth, and worked to block a schools expansion to protect his own property values. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette,
12/17/03; Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, 10/6/07)

Mark Critz voted against taking public school funds to pay for private school vouchers, and he opposed cuts to programs that protect middle-class families, such as education, health care and workplace safety.
(H.R. 471, Vote 204, 3/30/11; H.Res. 38, Vote 20, 1/25/11)

Retirement Security

Keith Rothfus endorsed the RomneyRyan plan to kill Medicare, and would end new benefits for seniors like preventive health services and lower costs for prescription drugs. (The Beaver County Times, 8/29/12; Healthcare.gov,
Seniors and the Affordable Care Act, accessed 8/30/12)

Mark Critz voted against the RomneyRyan plan to end Medicare and replace it with a private voucher system that would raise out-of-pocket costs for seniors by thousands of dollars. (H.Con.Res. 34, Vote 277, 4/15/11; Economic Policy
Institute, 4/7/11)

Stand with working families and vote for

Mark Critz.

VOTE Tuesday, November 6.