SFRA Chairman blasts Dems & SF Chron

S.F. CHRONICLE EDITOR In the 2008 campaign both candidates agreed on the need to reform health care. The President and Democrat majority has presented a 1037 page $1 trillion cradle to grave federal intrusion on 300 million Americans that excludes needed tort reform and Republican input. The non-partisan Congressional Budget Office has reported massive cost deficits, and the recent town hall meetings disclosed serious voter concerns, especially from senior citizens. The 2009 Affordable Health Choices Act, HR 3200 is now opposed by “likely voters” 56 to 43 percent; it should be modified on a bipartisan basis. Instead, the Democrat Party has responded to citizen’s concerns with former president Carter calling opponents of the President’s plan “bigots” and Speaker Pelosi has suggested opponents may cause “violence.” Worse, the San Francisco Chronicle amplified these charges with an editorial cartoon depicting Americans that attend Tea Parties standing around a burning cross, the caption reads: “These Tea Party protesters are getting kind of scary.” Is this what the Chronicle thinks of American citizens who attended Tea Parties; seniors, handicapped, veterans, including this writer, and all who oppose the bill as presently written? Mike DeNunzio CHAIRMAN San Francisco Republican Assembly