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AARP
Quits Social Security Forums
AARP, already under fire from within its
over-50 membership for endorsing the new Medicare law, is backing out of
Social Security forums it agreed to sponsor with the Bush administration
and away from a group advocating a system overhaul to allow stock market
investing. The first of three town hall meetings
organized by AARP, the Social Security Administration and the National
Association of Manufacturers was scheduled for Jan. 15 in AARP notified participants yesterday that it
was dropping out on the ground that the forums would be too politically
charged after the Medicare flap. Social Security, like Medicare, is always
a divisive issue in elections. David Certner, AARP's federal affairs
director, said the organization decided the forums were too close to next
year's election. The group's board met Friday and endorsed the decision. "It was simply easier for us to be doing our own events and not be connected to groups with partisan agendas," Certner said, adding that AARP wanted to "avoid the politics of it as much as anything." Copyright
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