LIVONIA, MI— Attorney General Mike Cox today issued the following response to a new attack ad by Lansing Mayor Virg Benero, the latest in a series of attacks by Democrats over Cox’s lawsuit to overturn the unconstitutional Obama-Pelosi health care bill:

“Mayor Bernero is absolutely right; I am suing to stop Obamacare.  What Bernero doesn’t seem to grasp is the fact that the Constitution matters. There are Constitutional limits to what Congress can force individuals to do and I am fighting this bill because it exceeds those limits, no matter how badly Bernero, Governor Granholm or Nancy Pelosi want to carry President Obama’s water.

“This bill is an unprecedented overreach by Congress and the President, forcing Americans for the first time ever to buy something as the price of citizenship. When the people of Michigan elected me to serve as Attorney General I took an oath to uphold the Constitution and I will continue to uphold that oath by fighting this bill.”

Lansing Mayor Virg Bernero today released an attack ad blasting Cox for “suing to overturn the (Obama-Pelosi health care) bill.” 

In March, Cox filed a lawsuit to stop President Obama and House Speaker Pelosi’s massive federal health care bill because it oversteps Congress’s Constitutional authority and for the first time ever forces Michigan residents to purchase a product as the price of citizenship.  The bill also includes trillions of dollars in federal spending, at least 88 new government programs and nearly 1,700 new sets of regulations.

Mike Cox’s recent national TV interviews about his lawsuit with Greta Van Susteren and earlier appearances with MSNBC’s Chris Matthews, Dylan Ratigan and Fox News Channel’s Neil Cavuto can be viewed at www.MikeCox2010.com or on Cox’s YouTube page at www.youtube.com/MikeCox2010.

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