Pro-Angle Front Group Lies About Social Security
Sharron Angle says Sharron Angle wants to end Social Security; out-of-state special interests attempt to distort and remake her position
LAS VEGAS – While recent polling suggests GOP nominee Sharron Angle’s extreme and dangerous agenda is quickly tanking her campaign for US Senate, that hasn’t stopped out-of-state special interests from putting money behind lies about Angle’s position on Social Security. Today, Citizens United – a pro-Angle front group famous for eviscerating campaign finance laws to allow corporate special interests to dominate elections – launched an ad attempting to deceive Nevadans about Angle’s position. Here’s the text:
Voiceover: Washington politicians like Harry Reid raid Social Security to fund their reckless spending. They promise to pay it back. Sharron Angle doesn't believe them. You shouldn't either. She says stop raiding Social Security. But Reid's misleading ad says she wants to phase out Social Security. Here's what Sharron really says:
Angle (on Fox & Friends): “Well that's nonsense I want to save Medicare and Social Security.”
OnScreen: Got it Harry?
Unfortunately for Nevada voters in search of the truth, the claims of Citizens United are flatly false regarding what Sharron Angle “really says” about Social Security. In her very own words, Angle has made clear she wants to end Social Security by “phase out” and doesn’t believe it can be saved – saying point blank “it can’t be fixed, it’s broken.” Watch Sharron Angle in her own words: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpZYnmQkRk4
Indeed, Angle’s pre-scrubbed, pre-primary website said explicitly that Social Security should be “transitioned out.” View Angle’s website before her new DC handlers censored her real views: http://www.therealsharronangle.com/
Finally, unlike the lies of Citizens United, the Reid campaign Social Security ad they characterize as “misleading” has been judged by independent analysts as “accurate” and Angle’s position on Social Security has been denounced by top national Republicans as far outside the mainstream – even within the GOP.
