Where does Brian Davis stand on AARP's issues?

AARP, formerly the American Association of Retired Persons,describes itself as "a nonprofit, nonpartisan membership organization for people age 50 and over ... dedicated to enhancing quality of life for all as we age."  It claims 38 million members nationwide.

The group has just issued its Minnesota Voters Guide. According to the group's website:

Each election year, AARP asks major candidates in selected races key questions about the issues most important to our members and their families. Candidates are allowed up to 125 words to answer each question. AARP does not edit or modify the candidates’ answers to our questions. In addition, AARP provides a summary of our position for each of the issues addressed.

Given the power of the older voter (people in the 50+ age group are among those groups with the highest voter turnout), candidates tend to answer the questionnaire by the deadline.

Brian Davis, the Republican candidate running in Minnesota's First Congressional district, didn't respond on time.

Voters looking to the guide for Davis's positions on social security, retirement security, affordable health care, long-term care, and making a commitment "to help end gridlock by working across party lines to develop and support common-sense, bipartisan solutions on health care and financial security" are simply out of luck.

Here's the link to the AARP Voters Guide for 2008 Minnesota, US House District 1 for those who want to learn Congressman Walz's positions.

The only other instance of  2008 major party candidates runnning for federal office who didn't answer is in the Fourth with both Ed Matthews and Betty McCollum not responding. We have no idea what they were thinking.

Photo: Congressman Walz and seniors in a Mankato town hall meeting, from the Mankato Free Press.

Comments

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Is this a strategy to appeal to the youth vote … after all isn’t his Facebook exploding ? Or … was his anti-establishment instinct that rejects deadlines (after all does Davis see any difference to paying his property taxes on time from completing a questionnaire on time) ?

I wonder what Dr. Davis NRA questionnaire looked like ? If he did not respond to their questionnaire, they would “ding” him and assume that he opposed the gun ownership.

Doesn’t this just show that Davis is only interested in “serving” on behalf of “his people” and not all the people of the First District.

SHAME, SHAME, SHAME

Ollie replies: Davis return his NRA survey and received a "AQ" which means an A based on the questionnaire along in the absence of a record.

As for not honoring AARP's request for a completed survey, Davis is the one to ask. Set up a Facebook account and ask on his wall.