Say No To Tort Reform: Senator McCaskill's Republican opponents each claiming to be the worst candidate?

Say No To Tort Reform

Tort Reform - sounds like something good, huh? Well, in most cases, its not. At least not good for 99% of American citizens. Who does tort reform benefit? Corporations and the 1% elite.

Tort reform is the systematic dismantling of the jury system through the use of changes to the justice system that favor defendants to lawsuits and eliminate the rights of consumers. Types of tort reform measures include caps on damages, which eliminate your Constitutional right to due process, as well as attempts to make the loser of the lawsuit pay for all of the winner's attorneys' fees, regardless of whether the loser had a valid claim. Other attempts at tort reform take the form of requirements that must be met before an injured party can file a lawsuit.

The corporations and other pro tort reform entities use the general disdain of "frivolous" lawsuits to have tort reform measures passed. However, the vast majority of these measures do not limit the filing of frivolous lawsuits but instead allow corporate defendants to avoid fully compensating those they so callously injure.

Monday, May 28, 2012

Senator McCaskill's Republican opponents each claiming to be the worst candidate?

There are five Republican candidates attempting to win the Republican primary and face Senator McCaskill for one of Missouri's two Senate seats. At a recent debate, the two front runners argued as to who was more in favor of tort reform. In other words, they both want to be the least qualified candidate for the good of the citizens of the state of Missouri.

John Brunner, a St. Louis businessman, claims that former Missouri State Treasurer Sarah Steelman was a roadblock to tort reform measures when she was a Missouri state senator. Steelman, on the other hand, owns up to having supported a tort reform bill that sought the draconian loser pays form of tort reform.

According to Brunner, Steelman was the only Republican to filibuster against tort reform bills in 2003 and 2004. Steelman disputes Brunner's claims.

Looks to me that both Brunner and Steelman are making it easy for Missouri voters to know that they do NOT stand up for the citizens of Missouri but instead seek to take away the rights of Missourians. If either is elected to the U.S. Senate, citizens of the United States can expect the same anti justice stance.

Say No To Tort Reform