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Speak Out: Congressman Leonard Lance Is A Right Wing Extremist, Not A Moderate

 Leonard Lance can permanently say goodbye to any notion of himself as being a moderate, mainstream or any other misguided characterization of himself that he has previously spouted. During this primary season he has embraced the radical right with open arms , boasted that he was endorsed by the National Rifle Association  and spent the entire primary season proving  just how far to the right he actually is. So what is he going to do now ? Pretend that he never said any of these things and continue to say he's a moderate for this moderate district?  

Let’s see how moderate Lance really is. He shut down the government because he didn’t get his way, he continues to waste our time voting 56 times to repeal  Obamacare, he wants to end Medicare as we know it by turning it into a voucher system  and he voted for the Blunt Amendment which would allow employers to deny women contraceptives through their insurance plan.  

On gun legislation, Lance supports  bringing  illegal firearms  into  New Jersey by voting  for the  " Conceal and Carry Reciprocity Act " ,HR 822 . This would allow gun owners from other states to carry their concealed weapons in New Jersey  against  our gun laws.   Unbelievably, he has even  gone so far as to file a legal petition in conjunction with the National Rifle Association asking  the Supreme Court  to overturn  New Jersey gun laws citing them as unconstitutional.  All of this despite  Governor Christie asking the Supreme Court to uphold the lower court’s decision to maintain our gun laws for public safety.

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 Lance is not only obstructive , he is dangerous.

 There is only one true moderate out there and her name is Janice Kovach.  Janice Kovach  is someone  who truly represents this moderate district and puts the concerns of residents first . She doesn't represent the gun lobby and she supports common sense federal background checks. She doesn’t want to turn Medicare into a voucher system and she doesn't want to let employers to decide whether women get their contraceptives .  She actually supports a jobs bill that will repair our crumbling infrastructure and create jobs.   Where is the Republicans’  jobs  bill?  Anyone, anyone?

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 Lance and the Republicans have done nothing for this country but obstruct, obstruct, obstruct. They have a Ryan budget that gives more tax breaks to millionaires , turns Medicare into a voucher system and cuts every federal program to the bone. On gun control,  Republicans can’t even bring themselves to  support universal  background checks to prevent criminals from buying illegal firearms and now Lance wants to bring illegal guns into New Jersey from out of state and  overturn our gun laws. If you see someone at Starbucks  the next time you are with your kids with a .22 caliber in his pocket,  you can thank Leonard  Lance for that. It is bad enough that Lance does nothing to promote safe gun legislation, now it has gotten to the point that he is actually working in direct alliance with the New Jersey division of the NRA to actively dismantle our gun laws and wants everyone carrying  concealed firearms . This man has got to be stopped. 
       
 Frankly , I’m sick and tired of Congressman Lance pretending he is a moderate and then doing the complete opposite.  

   It is time this district knows the truth about Leonard Lance. What he represents is the Tea Party,  its radical right agenda, and the gun lobby which is not representative of this district. Lance will continue to drive himself further and further to the extreme right along Tea Party lines until he is voted out. 

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