Powered by NGP Software.FORT WORTH-Air Transport Local 567 of the Transport Worker's Union of America endorsed Neil Durrance for Congress from Texas' 26th Congressional District this week.
"Neil Durrance will provide the kind of leadership working class families need in Washington," said Larry Pike, President of Local 567. "Congressman Michael Burgess has spent his years in Congress looking out for big business while ignoring the needs of working class families in North Texas," Pike said. . . .
"When I'm your Congressman, I'll be a representative who fights for working men and women across North Texas. The era of just saying ‘no' to working families in North Texas will end when I take office," Durrance said.
The AFL-CIO's Tarrant County Labor Council endorses Neil for U.S. Congress.
DALLAS-Citing his commitment to issues of importance to working families, Local 1338 of the Amalgamated Transit Union announced its endorsement of Neil Durrance (D-Denton) for Congress in Texas 26th District.
"Neil Durrance will provide the kind of leadership that working families in North Texas need," said Kenneth Day, President of ATU Local 1338. "Our current congressman has forgotten where he came from and who elected him. He's doing the bidding of big oil companies and voting lock-step with the ‘Party of No,' while working men and women in North Texas need him to say ‘yes' to initiatives to help our district," Day continued.
Neil Durrance brims with confidence as he talks about his race to unseat four-term Congressman Michael Burgess in the race for Texas 26th Congressional District, which includes almost all of Denton County. The Denton attorney, who once served on the Denton City Council, said voters are tired party labels, partisan bickering and politicians who care more for special interests than the people interests. In an anti-incumbent atmosphere that has seen an unusually large number of sitting congressmen unseated in the primaries, Durrance said he expects to win in November.
While U.S. Congressman Michael Burgess is grandstanding and using his seat on the House Energy and Commerce Committee to try and lay blame for the oil spill in the Gulf at the doorsteps of anyone but a major oil company in hopes of getting newspaper headlines, constituents in his own backyard are experiencing health issues, air quality issues, and worse. Yet he has done nothing to help the residents of DISH. I want to know why.
Democratic candidate for U.S. Congress Neil Durrance will hold a political rally at 10 a.m. Saturday at Transport Workers Union Local 567 Hall, 2050 Golden Triangle Blvd. in Fort Worth.
With the primaries 12 days behind them, Republican Michael Burgess and Democrat Neil Durrance are gearing up for a battle for the District 26 congressional seat.
The incumbent Burgess, R-Lewisville, wants to continue the work he has done since he was elected to U.S. Congress in 2002.
Durrance, 53, of Denton, said it is time for new blood and new representation for the district from someone who will listen to the people. He ran unopposed in the March 2 primary.
"We have suffered for the last eight to 10 years with entrenched politicians who are more interested in keeping their jobs, grabbing headlines and scoring political points than doing the work of the people," Durrance said. "It's time to return government to the people."
A former Denton City Council member and practicing lawyer for 28 years, Durrance said he has plenty of experience working out problems.
"I have sat across the table from people whom I did not care for and I did not like, but I knew we had to get agreements and we should move cases forward and people's business forward," he said.
This article gives an overview of Neil, Dr. Burgess, and his defeated Republican primary opponent, James Herford.
Are You Ready for it Yet?
"The economic recession and rising unemployment-plus changing demographics and baby boomers aging into Medicare-are among the factors expected to influence health spending during 2009-2019. In 2009 the health share of gross domestic product (GDP) is expected to have increased 1.1 percentage points to 17.3 percent-the largest single-year increase since 1960. Average public spending growth rates for hospital, physician and clinical services, and prescription drugs are expected to exceed private spending growth in the first four years of the projections. As a result, public spending is projected to account for more than half of all U.S. health care spending by 2012." - Health Affairs, 2/4/2010
For all the clamoring that is being expressed across the nation by some about how the government's efforts to reform health care will increase costs, the actions of the PRIVATE health insurance industry lately are making it clear that this just doesn't wash anymore. Without the government being involved at all, costs are projected to increase this year from anywhere to 10 and 25% by the PRIVATE sector. These increases come on the heels of record profits already raked in by the PRIVATE health insurance industry. Last year in 2009 "the five largest health insurance companies-WellPoint, UnitedHealth Group, Cigna, Aetna, and Humana-took in combined profits of $12.2 billion, up 56 percent over 2008." SOURCE
Read the full article at http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/2723125/health_care_reform_in_a...
If Republicans were confronted with the facts and they answered honestly, I feel certain it would become clear to objective thinkers that the interest of the general public are not what occupies their time. This isn't intended to demonize them; it's just to point out an obvious reality in contemporary U.S. politics.
Both Party's names give a bit of a clue on how their leaders might be inclined to pursue goals related to critical social issues. Democrats, a derivative name of government set up by the Greeks ages ago whereby each individual within the society had an actual say in the issues, tend to focus on a collective need of the people. Republicans, also originating within Greek culture as a representative form of government where people would elect someone to stand in for them on the issues (much like we have today in America) tend to focus on a more powerful, yet smaller constituency. Clearly I take license with this bit of word play, but you get my drift.
Democrats are not innocent of pursuing their own self-interest over real constituent needs or aligning themselves with corporate interests. And though it may not seem clear to some that voting with the interests of a select few from time to time can ultimately benefit the larger population, it IS clear that a recurrent and often unabashed pattern of doing this has developed within the ranks of the Republican party. Many during the Bush/Cheney years followed the lead of Grover Norquist that sought to shrink the roll of government to a point where the private sector could take over, replacing government agencies answerable to the people with corporate boards rooms answerable only to their stock holders.
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