Franken, Klobuchar Vote For Massive Tax Increases, Deep Medicare Cuts & Taxpayer Funded Abortions
   
St. Paul — Republican Party of Minnesota Chairman Tony Sutton issued the following statement today regarding Al Franken and Amy Klobuchar's votes in favor of the Senate health care bill.

"After weeks of shady backroom payoffs, unseemly sweetheart deals and Enron style accounting, Al Franken and Amy Klobuchar sold out Minnesota today by voting for a reckless nearly trillion dollar spending bill that increases premiums, raises taxes by $500 billion, cuts Medicare by over $470 billion and mandates that taxpayers fund abortion on demand.  Candidate Obama promised America an open legislative process played out on C-SPAN.  Instead, we saw a sleazy, secretive power play where Harry Reid bought off senators to get to 60 votes.  In 2010, Democrats will pay a steep political price for their decision to ram this unpopular bill down the throats of the American people."