Posted on 02/23/2014 11:46:49 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Democratic Congressman Gary Peters voted for ObamaCare. That disastrous vote made life worse for a lot of people. Now Gary Peters is running for Senate and trying to silence a leukemia survivor whose life he ruined.
Julie Boonstra, a cancer patient who was kicked of off her health plan due to Obamacare, lashed out at Rep. Gary Peters (D., Mich.) on Saturday after lawyers for his campaign demanded that Michigan broadcasters cease airing ads featuring her story.
Boonstra, a Michigan resident, was diagnosed with leukemia five years ago. She was recently kicked off of her healthcare plan due to regulations passed as part of President Barack Obama’s Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, which Peters voted in favor of.
After relating her story publicly in an ad produced by the advocacy group Americans for Prosperity (AFP), Peters dispatched lawyers to prevent the spot from running on local television stations.
Boonstra, who says she is now struggling to pay out of pocket for her rising healthcare costs, told the Washington Free Beacon she is stunned by Peters’ efforts to censor her story.
“I’m appalled. I’m appalled as a mom, as a woman, and as a cancer patient, as someone living with cancer … who has stood before this nation to say, ‘I cannot afford that out of pocket expense,’” said Boonstra, who said she was given a 20 percent chance of surviving her disease. “As a Michigan resident, to silence my voice, I’m absolutely appalled.”
Peters, who is running for a seat in the Senate, instructed his legal council earlier this week to demand that stations stop running the AFP ad until additional evidence of the cancer victim’s claims could be produced.
“I’m very surprised,” Boonstra said just hour after she attempted to confront Peter face-to-face at his Bloomfield Hills residence. “I have every right to tell my story and express my point of view and opinion on how Obamacare has effected me.”
Boonstra attempted to confront the congressman at his door, but he did not answer when she knocked.
“I just went up to his house and knocked on his door,” Boonstra recalled. “I would like to meet with him, but he did not answer. I know someone was home, so I left a letter there for him.”
Boonstra wrote in her letter, “I don’t understand why you’re trying to silence my voice. I have every right to speak out and don’t understand why you’re doing this.”
It’s obvious why Peters and the Washington Post and the rest of the liberal establishment is trying to silence Boonstra. Their disastrous ObamaCare plan depends on silencing the stories of the people who have been hurt by it. Boonstra’s story is not the story that they want told and so they are determined that it will not be told.
Democrats are evil. That’s all there is to it. There is no other reason to declare war on poor pitiful souls who are dying from horrible diseases. Why else would someone with even an ounce of humanity want to shorten their lives and make them even more miserable than they already are in their final days?
stories like this boil my blood
Given the nature of the Ad, I would suspect she is a Republican..........
“It’s obvious (abortion) that d-rats just want you to just shut-up and die already.”
I like it! Obamacare is just, “ a very late term abortion”.
Democrat senate incumbents who are up for re-election and voted for obamacare are running commercials ATTACKING it like they had nothing to do with it becoming law.
It’s jaw dropping to watch, they figure they can fool enough morons to keep their seat.
If her husband's name is Mark then they are heavy contributors to Pete Hoekstra, a Republican.......
With that being said, there's no mention of Mitt Romney's killing the wife of an employee of a steel company he closed down back around 2000 when the employee lost his job and health insurance.......
How is he going to get elected Senator?
Vote fraud?
“In the context you’re using it in, the proper term is “hanged”, not “hung”.”
Well, Peters may be hung too, but I rather think not!
She needs to have someone follow her with a camera and tape the congressman “not being at home”. Then she can go to his office.
LOL...good for her...
What a gutless POS Peters must be...
Peters knows that this woman is just the tip of the iceberg. There are no doubt dozens more waiting in the wings. His bluster about legal action is meant to intimidate others.
His ham fisted response will backfire, causing this story to get lots more media coverage than it would have if he’d just kept quiet.
Yes, it is an act of desperation and it’s great to see.
Peters is a dummy. Another Den who could be replace by a box of rocks and the box could govern better.
The look of a beaten man.
The real ‘war on women’ is Obamacare (aka RINOcare).
This guy needs to be buried by this. Finished. Kaput.
Yes, they are evil. No other word suffices. Insane comes close, but if you keep watching them, you realize they hide behind insane. They are not insane - they are evil.
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