Talks Social Security, Attack Ads, and Economic Recovery with WAFB

(click on image to see interview)

Bill Cassidy believes in having an open dialogue with American people about the challenges facing our nation.  Don Cazayoux and his liberal supporters in DC have spent close to $1 million to spread lies about Bill Cassidy’s position on Social Security.  In an interview on WAFB this morning, Bill Cassidy set the record straight.

Excerpt of remarks by Bill Cassidy on WAFB:

“I have never said I wanted to privatize Social Security, and if you don’t want to talk about issues, if you don’t want to talk about the fact that I am the pro-life, pro-Second Amendment candidate who supports John McCain; who is for lower taxes – who would actually vote for lower taxes instead of just talk about it – then you make up lies about other issues.”

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“Don Cazayoux voted to put the State Retirement system in the Stock Market. Now, he voted for that, thinking it was a good idea – the State workers version of Social Security – but now he criticizes me because I point out that people have done that in the past as a way to improve the financial standing.

Now again, if you don’t want to talk about the fact that 70% of your contributions are from out of state; that you want to take away the workers’ right to a secret ballot, as Mr. Cazayoux does, then instead of talk about my positions – which is to let the workers have a secret ballot, lower taxes rather than raise them, strengthen Social Security and find a way to do it – then you attack me.”

Responds to “attack ads from Washington”

(Baton Rouge, LA): Bill Cassidy for Congress will begin airing a new television ad this week, featuring Governor Bobby Jindal.  Governor Jindal endorsed Bill Cassidy early in the race and hosted the first campaign fundraiser, but this is the first ad featuring the Governor.

According to a survey of likely voters taken October 22-23 by Fabrizio, McLaughlin & Associates, the race in Louisiana’s Sixth Congressional District is a statistical dead-heat between incumbent Don Cazayoux and Republican challenger Bill Cassidy. In that poll, only 40.6% stated that they believed “Don Cazayoux has performed his job as Congressman well enough to deserve re-election”.

The ad by Governor Jindal responds to the attack ads from Don Cazayoux and his Washington DC supporters.

Chris Ingram, a spokesman for the Bill Cassidy campaign, issued the following statement:

“Governor Bobby Jindal has a proven record of reform, integrity, and conservative values that the voters of Louisiana know and trust.  The Governor was disturbed by the national Democrats’ misleading attack ads against Bill Cassidy, and he offered to help set the record straight. Congressman Cazayoux and Liberal Special Interests have spent a million dollars lying about Bill Cassidy, but the voters of Louisiana are tired of DC lies.”

Bill Cassidy for Congress has released a new television ad that tells voters about his decades of service to the community as a Physisician, his service to the state’s taxpayers as a State Senator, and how he plans to serve the country in Congress.

Click below to watch the new ad, and send it to all your friends in Louisiana’s Sixth Congressional District:

Bill Cassidy - Service