Groups join in targeting Talent over Social Security
2006-09-14
Source: STL Today
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rss feedLeaders of about a half-dozen groups involved in elderly or health care issues gathered Wednesday outside the St. Louis office of the federal Social Security Administration. Their target: U.S. Sen. Jim Talent, R-Mo.
The groups released a joint letter calling on Talent "to join with us in standing firmly opposed to Social Security privatization now and in the future."
Most of the groups - including the Association for Retired Americans and the Gateway chapter of the Older Women's League - are nonpartisan. But their event followed a parade of Democratic groups this week that have accused Talent of siding with President George W. Bush, who was quoted in the Wall Street Journal over the weekend saying that he hopes to revive his dormant proposal to partially privatize Social Security after the November elections.
"Talent Supports the Risky Privatization Plan that President Bush Is Trying to Revive," declared a release by the national Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee.
Democrats cited Talent's support for proposals to allow some Social Security taxes to be diverted into personal investment accounts - in the 1990s while in the U.S. House and during a local fundraiser with Bush last year.
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