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VOTE FOR SENATOR GARY PETERS FIGHTING FOR YOU Protecting Obamacare Gary is fighting to expand access to affordable healthcare and to lower costs. He voted for Obamacare and will protect Michiganders with pre-existing conditions. Gary is holding big pharmaceutical companies accountable and working to lower prescription drug prices. Protecting Social Security and Medicare Gary is working to lower taxes for middle-class families and will always protect Social Security and Medicare. Opposing Betsy DeVos Gary opposes Betsy DeVos' anti-public school agenda. He is fighting to strengthen our public schools and expand access to technical and vocational education programs. MICHIGAN CHRONICLE "ENDORSES INCUMBENT DEMOCRATIC SEN. GARY PETERS FOR REELECTION TO THE U.S. SENATE" "[Peters has] established a reputation for bipartisanship, excellent constituent service, bringing home the bacon for Michigan, and a reliable friend and advocate for [the] African American community.''—9/9/2020 VOTE Vote early in person with an absentee ballot at your city/township clerk's office starting on Thursday, September 24 through Monday, November 2. Election Day is Tuesday, November 3. Polls are open from 7 am to 8 pm. Find your polling place at michigandems.com/pollingplace Voter Assistance Hotline: 833-MI-V0TES MichiganDems.com/vote/ REPUBLICAN JOHN JAMES SAYS HE SUPPORTS DONALD TRUMP'S AGENDA "2000%"1 AND THAT'S NOT GOOD FOR MICHIGAN FAMILIES Gutting Obamacare James called Obamacare a "monstrosity" and wants to repeal it. He supports Trump's healthcare plan, which drives up healthcare costs and guts protections for over 1.7 million Michiganders with pre-existing conditions.2 Cutting Social Security and Medicare James supports Trump's corporate tax plan, which gives a trillion dollar tax break to drug companies and billionaires, and forces cuts to Social Security and Medicare.3 Beholden to Betsy DeVos James is Betsy DeVos' hand-picked candidate. Her family has already spent over $1,000,000 on his campaigns. James thinks Betsy DeVos is doing a "very, very good" job, even though she proposed cutting over $100 million in funding for Michigan's public schools.4 Learn More: JohnJamesRevealed.com Check the Facts: 1. The Detroit News, 9/28/17. 2. John James via Facebook, 11/1/17; Kaiser Family Foundation, 10/4/19; Facebook, John James, 9/28/17; USA Today, 3/26/19. 3. Facebook, John James, 9/28/17; U.S. News & World Report, 12/7/17; The Washington Post, 12/15/17. 4. M-Live, 3/29/17; You Tube, Howell, Ml, accessed 9/2/20; FEC, accessed 9/4/20; Center for Responsive Politics, accessed 8/22/20. 20MID010 [union bug] [recycle bug] Paid for by the Michigan Democratic State Central Committee |
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SENATOR
GARY
PETERS
Paid for by the Michigan
Democratic State Central CommitteeWORKING ACROSS PARTY LINES TO DELIVER FOR MICHIGAN Nonpartisan groups like the Center for Effective Lawmaking have ranked Gary as one of the most effective and bipartisan members of the Senate. PetersForMichigan.com Pictures shown without masks were taken before COVID-19. |
SENATOR
GARY PETERS Gary wrote and passed more bills through the Senate than any other Senator over the last two years—of either party. |
JOHN
JAMES James says bipartisanship makes him "want to throw up." He's beholden to the special interests who spend big to get him elected.1 |
Gary is working to expand access to affordable healthcare and lower costs. He will protect Michiganders with pre-existing conditions. | COVERING PEOPLE WITH PRE-EXISTING
CONDITIONS |
James supports a dangerous plan backed by insurance companies that would eliminate protections for 1.7 million Michiganders with pre-existing conditions.2 |
Gary will always protect Social Security and Medicare. He opposed a plan that would raise taxes on middle-class families and opposed putting your retirement benefits at risk. | PROTECTING SOCIAL SECURITY AND
MEDICARE |
James supports a corporate tax plan
backed by Wall Street that gives a trillion-dollar
tax break to drug companies, billionaires and big
oil companies, and could force significant cuts to
Social Security and Medicare.3
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Gary expanded access to more
affordable generic versions of drugs and is
pushing to lower drug costs for Medicare
recipients so that more Michiganders can afford
their life-saving medications. |
LOWERING PRESCRIPTION DRUG COSTS |
James supports a plan backed by pharmaceutical companies that would boost profits for them, but increase prescription drug costs for Michiganders, including for over 200,000 seniors.4 |
Gary opposes Betsy DeVos' attempts
to cut billions from our public schools. He
believes our schools need more resources to keep
students and teachers safe. |
STANDING UP TO BETSY DEVOS |
Betsy DeVos' family has
already spent over $1,000,000 on James' campaigns.
James thinks Betsy DeVos is doing a "very, very
good" job, even though she proposed cutting over
$100 million in funding for Michigan's public
schools.5 |
CHECK THE FACTS:
1. Mlive, 7/22/2020; Center for Responsive
Politics, accessed 9/8/2020 2. John James,
11/1/2017; Kaiser Family Foundation, 10/4/2019.
3. Facebook, John James, 9/28/2017; AARP,
12/18/2017; The Washington Post, 12/15/2017;
Axios, 10/26/2018; Forbes, 12/21/2017. 4. John
James, 11/1/2017; Urban Institute, 8/6/2020;
Kaiser Family Foundation, 2019; Centers for
Medicare and Medicaid Studies, 1/13/2017 5.
Howell, Michigan, 7/13/2018; Mlive, 3/29/2017;
FEC, accessed 9/4/2020. 20MID011 [union bug]
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