Charlie Bass Begging New Hampshire Voters For Another Chance-- To Serve Wall Street And K Street

Ann McLane Kuster has 2 reprehensible conservatives running against her

Most of the energy we've directed towards the race for Paul Hodes' open House seat has been to try to fend off the potential disaster of arch-conservative Liebercrat Katrina Swett, oozing into the Democratic nomination. It's the reason Ann McLane Kuster was one of the first Democrats to make it onto Blue America's Sending A Message page. Yesterday, however, the former seat-holder, Wall Street/K Street fave turned teabagger asskisser, Charlie Bass officially declared his candidacy for the seat he lost, with only 45% of the vote, in 2006 to Hodes.

Now Kuster will have two conservative candidates carrying the anti-working family/Big Business messaging to fend off, one in the primary and one in the general. I like the way she greeted Bass' official announcement by pointing out to New Hampshire voters that:

• Today Bass accused President Obama of “coddling terrorists” (even though Bass himself voted against establishing the original September 11 Commission and blindly diverted troops away from the real War on Terror and into Iraq for years).

• Today Bass attacked a “multitrillion dollar nationalization of health care” (even though he spent 12 years in Congress helping the special interests make our broken health care system worse, and the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office has concluded that health care reform would decrease the deficit, not add to it)

• Today he pretended to support “cutting government spending” (even the he voted repeatedly for George W. Bush’s fiscally irresponsible budgets, helping to double the national debt from $4.8 Trillion to $8.7 Trillion while Bass served in Congress).

Bass has gobbled up over half a million dollars from the Finance Sector and he has been a devoted puppet to the special interests-- which is why his constituents rejected him in 2006. Kuster is campaigning to rein in Wall Street and help fix the balance back towards ordinary working families. Unlike Bass she pledges to work towards comprehensive healthcare reform with a strong public option, something he is violently opposed to. Kuster's campaign platform promotes civil rights, marriage equality, ending DADT and standing firm on Choice. Bass is on the wrong side of every one of these issues. He's Wall Street's candidate, the lobbyists' candidate, Big Business' candidate. They're financing him. She's out candidate and she can use our help. If you can do it, please donate here at the Blue America's Ann McLane Kuster page.