RALEIGH—Former President Bill Clinton visited North Carolina today on behalf of Senator Hillary Clinton’s campaign for President.  Among other things he advocated for on her behalf was her plan to create massive, government-run health care reform.

Chairman Linda Daves, North Carolina Republican Party, made the following statement:

“Maybe someone should tell Senator Clinton and the former President where they are.  This is North Carolina.  We never voted for her husband and we won’t vote for Senator Clinton in November either.  North Carolina voters don’t want a President who will turn back the clock fifteen years to try to revive a failed pet project for big government health care that Americans already rejected during the nineties.  Senator Clinton wants to create a new budget-busting bureaucracy that will restrict Americans’ choices when it comes to their own health care and penalize them for not buying into her system.  More government is not the answer.  Clinton has attacked Senator McCain for not having a plan simply because he believes common sense solutions lie in competition and innovation and not more government.  Senator Clinton’s policy is wrong for North Carolina and every other state in the country.  It was wrong in 1993 and it is still wrong now.  We don’t need a President who will try to revive the last decade.  We need a President to lead us into the next decade.  John McCain is the only candidate in this race prepared to do that and that is why North Carolinians will cast their votes for him this November.”

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