Gore Lied About Senior "Can Collector"
Al Gore Misrepresented Claims of Senior 'Can Collector'
There he goes again.
Al Gore's claim that one of his guests was so poor she had to scrounge up cans to pay for prescription drugs doesn't measure up to the facts.
Gore concluded his debate appearance describing his model case of the evils of prescription drug costs:
"There's a woman named Winifred Skinner here tonight from Iowa. I mentioned her earlier. She's 79 years old, she has Social Security. I'm not going to cut her benefits or support any proposal that would. She gets a small pension. But in order to pay for her prescription drug benefits, she has to go out seven days a week, several hours a day, picking up cans. She came all the way from Iowa in a Winnebago with her poodle in order to attend here tonight."
Touching.
We learn from Iowa sources that, for starters, Winifred is not from Des Moines.
A small point.
It gets worse.
As it turns out, we hear that Mrs. Skinner collects those cans Al Gore spoke of because she chooses to, not because she has to.
Mrs. Skinner's own son has been on local Iowa radio and has explained her situation.
Apparently, Mrs. Skinner has family and friends who have offered to help her and she refused because she wants to do things for herself.
As one of our Iowa readers notes, "Al Gore wants to take the Winnifred Skinners of the country and exploit them as victims of a cruel system."
NewsMax.com's Iowa reader points out that "Mrs. Skinner has a nice home in a nice neighborhood of a very comfortable Midwestern town, she owns a new car, and she rode out in that Winnebago because she does not like to fly."
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