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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

Mike Fitzpatrick
Mike Fitzpatrick voted for unfair trade agreements with Colombia and South Korea that could cost the United States more than 200,000 jobs. (H.R. 3078, Vote 781, 10/12/11; H.R. 3080,
Vote 783, 10/12/11; EPI, 2/25/10)

Kathy Boockvar
Kathy Boockvar supports a tax policy that encourages businesses to innovate and hire right here in America, including tax credits for companies working on clean and renewable energy. (The Intelligencer, 7/9/12)

Your friends and neighbors understand how important this election is. Mike Fitzpatrick is part of a systematic attack on 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 Kathy Boockvar is the best choice for working families. For more information visit www.aflcio.org.

Education

(H.R. 471, Vote 204, 3/30/11; H.R. 38, Vote 20, 1/25/11)

Mike Fitzpatrick voted to take away taxpayer funding from public education and give it to private schools. He also voted to gut programs that protect middle-class families, like education and health care.

Kathy Boockvar supports increased early childhood education, more funding for our public schools and affordable student loans to give every child the opportunity to continue his or her education. (Campaign website, accessed 7/17/12)

Retirement Security

Mike Fitzpatrick voted for the Romney-Ryan plan to end Medicare and replace it with a privatized 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)

Kathy Boockvar believes the RomneyRyan plan is against the best interests of middle-class families, and will oppose privatizing Medicare.
(National Journal, 8/14/12; The Intelligencer, 8/14/12)

Stand with working families and vote for

Kathy Boockvar.

VOTE Tuesday, November 6.