Oct 21, 2014: New York Times: The Democratic Panic
Only one Democratic Senate candidate this cycle has been willing to appear with the president on the stump: Gary Peters in Michigan.
Only one Democratic Senate candidate this cycle has been willing to appear with the president on the stump: Gary Peters in Michigan.
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Apr 24, 2014: Deadline Detroit: Washington Post Gives Latest Anti-Gary Peters Ad 'Two Pinocchios'
The Washington Post gives the latest attack ad against Rep. Gary Peters Two Pinocchios, indicating it has some misleading information. The maximum an ad can get is four. 
Z-NEWS NOTES: Feb 28, 2014: While Julie Boonstra of Dexter, Mich., struggles to survive leukemia, she now also has to cope with being called a liar by the Democrat who wants to be her next senator.And the campaign of Rep. Gary Peters is also going after television stations airing ads in which her story is featured, threatening their licenses.The ad by Americans for Prosperity features Boonstra talking about how her insurance was canceled under Obamacare and saying that Peters' decision to vote for the law "jeopardized my health." The ads are airing in Michigan as Peters seeks the Democratic nomination to replace Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich., who is not seeking re-election. (SOURCE: Charles Hoskinson: Washington Examiner: "Michigan Democrat Rep. Gary Peters threatens TV station licenses over Obamacare ad")
ON THE RECORD: Feb 25, 2014: Greg Sargent on unveiled the "documentation" offered by Americans for Prosperity to back up its recent anti-Obamacare campaign commercial airing in Michigan. The ad featured a local leukemia patient named Julie Boonstra, complaining about her experience under Obamacare. The ad's target, Gary Peters, a Democratic candidate for Senate, demanded that the group back up its claims. The documentation does not contradict the expert debunking of the original ad performed by Glenn Kessler of the Washington Post. In the ad, Boonstra relates her old insurance was canceled "because of Obamacare," and under her new, ACA-compliant plan, "the out-of-pocket costs are so high, it’s unaffordable." The ad also implies she lost her cancer doctor in the changeover, but that turns out to be untrue. As Kessler pointed out, the costs of Boonstra's old and new plan are essentially identical. Her old plan had a "low" out-of-pocket annual maximum (how low hasn't been made public), and the new plan has an out-of-pocket maximum of $6,350. But her monthly premiums have come down from $1,100 to $571 a month. That's a savings of $6,348 for the year, which covers her maximum. So what does Americans for Prosperity say about that? They cite a story published by Politico last September, quoting a health company spokeswoman saying consumers may face "the potential for unpredictable, expensive, out-of-pocket costs in plans with higher deductibles." (SOURCE: Michael Hiltzik: Los Angeles Times: "A tea party group's lame 'documentation' of its anti-Obamacare ad")
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