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		<title>Weprin Takes Turner to Task With Pie Charts</title>

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		<description><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://nyopoliticker.files.wordpress.com/2011/08/3317bf37-2aaa-4edf-b4bd-5073a3941752.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-6501" title="3317bf37-2aaa-4edf-b4bd-5073a3941752" src="http://nyopoliticker.files.wordpress.com/2011/08/3317bf37-2aaa-4edf-b4bd-5073a3941752.jpg?w=150&h=150" alt="" width="150" height="150" /></a><a href="http://nyopoliticker.files.wordpress.com/2011/08/52b4c498-172a-4bc0-b590-357be92d2016.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-6502" title="52b4c498-172a-4bc0-b590-357be92d2016" src="http://nyopoliticker.files.wordpress.com/2011/08/52b4c498-172a-4bc0-b590-357be92d2016.jpg?w=150&h=150" alt="" width="150" height="150" /></a>David Weprin continues to hit <a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/269094/bonfire-hill-bob-turner#">Bob Turner over an editorial he wrote for <em>The National Review</em></a> in which he wrote that he ran for Congress in 2010 in order "to fix what’s broken and go home. End  subsidies. End government dependencies. Dramatically cut the budget by  30 or 35 percent. Slash capital-gains <a id="itxthook3" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/269094/bonfire-hill-bob-turner#">t</a>axes down to zero. Cut taxes across the board."<!--more--></p>
<p>The Weprin campaign is arguing that Turner can't cut the budget by 35 percent without taking a bite out of Medicare, as the pie charts to the left show.</p>
<p>“Bob Turner’s Tea Party-inspired budget plan gives the one-two punch to  Medicare,” said Weprin campaign spokesperson Elizabeth Kerr. “No matter  how you slice it, Turner’s either lying to voters or he plans to cut  Medicare. No one who lives in budget reality  is coming to his Tea Party.”</p>
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://nyopoliticker.files.wordpress.com/2011/08/3317bf37-2aaa-4edf-b4bd-5073a3941752.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-6501" title="3317bf37-2aaa-4edf-b4bd-5073a3941752" src="http://nyopoliticker.files.wordpress.com/2011/08/3317bf37-2aaa-4edf-b4bd-5073a3941752.jpg?w=150&h=150" alt="" width="150" height="150" /></a><a href="http://nyopoliticker.files.wordpress.com/2011/08/52b4c498-172a-4bc0-b590-357be92d2016.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-6502" title="52b4c498-172a-4bc0-b590-357be92d2016" src="http://nyopoliticker.files.wordpress.com/2011/08/52b4c498-172a-4bc0-b590-357be92d2016.jpg?w=150&h=150" alt="" width="150" height="150" /></a>David Weprin continues to hit <a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/269094/bonfire-hill-bob-turner#">Bob Turner over an editorial he wrote for <em>The National Review</em></a> in which he wrote that he ran for Congress in 2010 in order "to fix what’s broken and go home. End  subsidies. End government dependencies. Dramatically cut the budget by  30 or 35 percent. Slash capital-gains <a id="itxthook3" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/269094/bonfire-hill-bob-turner#">t</a>axes down to zero. Cut taxes across the board."<!--more--></p>
<p>The Weprin campaign is arguing that Turner can't cut the budget by 35 percent without taking a bite out of Medicare, as the pie charts to the left show.</p>
<p>“Bob Turner’s Tea Party-inspired budget plan gives the one-two punch to  Medicare,” said Weprin campaign spokesperson Elizabeth Kerr. “No matter  how you slice it, Turner’s either lying to voters or he plans to cut  Medicare. No one who lives in budget reality  is coming to his Tea Party.”</p>
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