Tue Sep 29, 2009 at 11:11:27 PM EDT
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Seeking to turn a negative into a positive, Senator Loretta Weinberg is donating $1,000 contributed to her in '04 and '05 to a worthy charity:"I've instructed my campaign to donate that money to the Jill Fader Breast Cancer Endeavor at Englewood Hospital which helps to pay for mammograms for uninsured women," said Weinberg, the Democratic lieutenant governor candidate. After Republicans tried to make an issue of the donations, the Senator had this to say:Weinberg, a critic of Oury and Ferriero when they were in power, said she did not know why Oury made the two $500 donations to her campaign, which date back to 2004 and 2005.
"I'm the one who supported the candidates who wound up getting rid of Dennis Oury in Bergenfield," she said, referring to the ouster of Oury as Bergenfield's borough attorney. "Where were the Republicans when I was standing up to Dennis Oury?" The charity is especially significant because of the recent focus on Christie's plan to offer mandate free policies and the implications that would have for coverage of procedures like mammograms, which Weinberg hit on again today as well:"If we don't require insurance companies to cover mammograms, they won't. Period. That is why we battled against the big insurance companies to enact these mandates in the first place," said Weinberg. "The American Cancer Society helped lead the fight for the mammogram mandate because mammograms are a crucial defense against an insidious disease. Mr. Christie is either lying or he fails to understand the implications of his own policies. Either way, he has once again shown that he is wrong when it matters most." Weinberg sponsored a bill that strengthened the original law mandating coverage in 2004, requiring insurance companies to also cover mammograms for women under 40 who have a family history of breast cancer. |
| Jason Springer :: Weinberg donates Oury money to group that helps pay for mammograms for uninsured women |
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