Elizabeth Kucinich steals the show at breast cancer summit

A breast cancer summit sponsored by the GOP aligned Komen Foundation, Elizabeth Kucinch talked about her husband's plans for a single payer health care system. It appears from the headlines, the intention was to showcase Judy Giuliani, playing on her husband's prostate cancer. But Elizabeth stole the show and spoke about issues important to survivors. Nancy Brinker must be fuming.

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Wearing a long pink coat that matched the ribbons worn by many breast-cancer survivors in the room, Mrs. Kucinich spoke about Britain’s health care system.

“We really have an affordable health care system, and I don’t see why America is afflicted with a system where we have insurance companies in business who make money not providing health care,” Mrs. Kucinich said, as the audience broke into loud applause.

Mr. Giuliani has repeatedly criticized Britain’s health care system and said that the Democratic candidates were calling for a similar system of “socialized medicine.” (In fact, most of the Democrats say they advocate plans to extend coverage to the uninsured, not plans for government-provided health care.)

Mrs. Giuliani had already left by the time Mrs. Kucinich spoke.

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http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/07/us/politics/07judith.html?ref=us

From the New York Daily News

"Giuliani, 52, was so careful that she was roundly upstaged by 30-year-old Elizabeth Kucinich, wife of third-tier Democratic presidential hopeful Dennis Kucinich, who spoke without notes and, unlike Giuliani, stuck around to chat after the event."

if she wore her tongue stud?

not worthy of GOP smear tactics.

Too bad, Mrs. G had already left when Elizabeth gave her speech.

btw, that's not the first time I've read that the Komen foundation was allied with the GOP. Do you have any links?

Compromised?

The Susan G. Komen Foundation is tied up in private interests that run counter to its mission

BY MARY ANN SWISSLER
http://tampa.creativeloafing.com/gyrobase/Content?oid=oid%3A3332

One would hope that the organization is non-partisan, but Repukes have a hard time doing "non-partisan".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nancy_Brinker

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