The 2002 election featured an unprecented effort by supporters of privatization to lie about and distort their record on Social Security.  In response, the Campaign for America’s Future launched a truth squad effort called "Reading Between the Lies."  Below is the full collection of these pieces as well as a number of other press releases and reports that we distributed for the 2002 debate.

PDF  “Democrats won the Social Security debate in 2002.”  01/07/03

PDF  “Adam Taff Tries to Mislead Voters, Reporters about Social Security.”
11/01/02

PDF "Cutting Benefits, Increasing Risk: Lindsey Graham's Legislation to Partially Privatize Social Security." Also see press release.  10/28/02

Web |  PDF  “Tom Latham Endorsed Mandatory Private Investment of Social Security: Latham plan would require everyone to lose Social Security benefits while taking more risk.”
10/24/02

PDF “New Report: Greg Ganske’s Legislation to Partially Privatize Social Security.”
10/22/02

PDF “New Report: John Sununu’s Legislation to Partially Privatize Social Security.”
10/15/02

Web |  PDF  “NJ Senate Candidate Doug Forrester Gets Caught Misleading Voters:  New York Times points out that Republicans have called private accounts “privatization” for years.”
10/10/02

Web |  PDF  “New Group Has Social Security Pledge . . . For Privatization: Right-wing pledge will expose candidates who claim that privatization is different from private accounts.”
10/4/02

Web |  PDF  “Wayne Allard Sponsored Bill to Partially Privatize Social Security: Meanwhile, new Allard ad says there has ‘never been a vote’ on privatization in the Senate – but there has, and he voted for it, twice.”
10/1/02

PDF “Campaign for America’s Future forces GOPAC to pull Social Security reparations ad.”
9/13/02

PDF “GOPAC radio ad claims that Social Security is ‘reverse Reparations’: Republican PAC Pitches Bush’s Social Security Plans to African Americans.”
9/12/02

Web |  PDF “NRCC memo accuses reporters of "taking sides in the midterm elections" if they use the word "privatization" to describe "personal accounts.”
8/27/02

Web |  PDF “Elizabeth Dole Dances Around Issue of Partial Privatization for Social Security: Five questions about Social Security for Elizabeth Dole.” 
8/15/02

Web |  PDF “Who will keep the politicians honest in election 2002? Campaign forAmerica's Future calls on news media to uncover lies, to explain who is paying for political messages, and to highlight gaps between record and campaign pitch.”
8/12/02

Web |  PDF “Election Strategy for Social Security Privatizers – Lie and Mislead Voters: No matter what you call it, diverting Social Security funds into stock investments will cut guaranteed benefits and increase risk.”
8/8/02

Web |  PDF “John Thune is Hiding His Views on Social Security, and He is Lying about Sen. Tim Johnson’s.”
8/8/02

Web |  PDF “Is Rep. Gekas Flip-Flopping… or Double-Dealing?  Gekas’ Social Security and Medicare positions suddenly change.”
7/24/02

PDF “Tim Hutchinson: A Reliable Vote for Wall Street Plans to Gamble Social Security in the Stock Market.”
7/18/02