From the Sauerberg for U.S. Senate camp:
(Lombard, IL) - Today, Dick Durbin voted for yet another piece of pork laden legislation - this time voting to tie billions in pork barrel spending to funding for our troops.
"If you want to know why the American people have completely and totally lost faith in the career politicians in Washington, one need look no further than the debate over the current funding bill for our troops in Iraq and Afghanistan," said Steve Sauerberg, M.D., the Republican nominee for U.S. Senate. "Instead of debating how much funding was necessary to keep our brave men and women in uniform safe, the shameless politicians in Washington spent their time stuffing the bill full of extraneous pork barrel spending."
Democratic leadership even went as far as adding a provision to the war funding bill that will help Planned Parenthood buy prescription drugs at a discount. "Dick Durbin should have spoken out against using this critical legislation as just another vehicle for pork barrel payoffs to special interests," said Sauerberg. In addition to the Planned Parenthood provision, Senators on both side of the partisan aisle stuffed billions of dollars of extraneous spending into the bill. "This bill represents a total failure of leadership on both sides of the political aisle in Washington."
"It is morally bankrupt for Dick Durbin and his buddies in the Senate to play games with funding for our troops in harm's way," concluded Sauerberg.
