timeline of deceit

October 11, 2012

You have to see this. So WCIA-TV ran a news story last night about David Gill’s fake “Susan” TV ad that has been running on the airwaves and has been used to raise money for Gill in email blasts. Last night while talking to WCIA-TV, Gill changed his story on Susan AGAIN! Yep – this is getting ridiculous.

Gill uses this “Susan” character as a shining example of why we need a government-run healthcare program but can’t even get his story straight. Let’s check out David Gill’s Timeline of Deceit:

September 28, 2012 – Tom Alte, deputy campaign manager said, “She was a real person.” (Bloomington Pantagraph)
September 28, 2012 – Statement from Dr. David Gill regarding Susan vs. male stories “These are two different people years apart.” (Bloomington Pantagraph)
September 28, 2012 – “Gill campaign spokeswoman Lucy Stein suggested that Susan may be an amalgamation.” (Decatur Herald & Review )
October 4, 2012 – “Stein told the Post-Dispatch that ‘Susan’ may or may not be the woman’s real name.” (St. Louis Post-Dispatch)
October 4, 2012 – Gill campaign cannot provide more information on the patient(s) due to medical privacy laws. (St. Louis Post-Dispatch STLtoday.com)
October 4, 2012 – The “Susan” in the current television ad happened “over a decade ago” at John Warner Hospital in Clinton, IL. (St. Louis Post-Dispatch)
October 7, 2012 – “Gill..told me…‘Susan’ is not the woman’s real name.” (State Journal Register)
October 8, 2012 – “Susan” is not the name of the patient in his current television ad. (State Journal-Register)
October 10, 2012 – Dr. Gill says they’re two different people. “The two things similar with those two patients is that they were both 39, and they both had two children, and they were both victims of the way we finance health care.” (WCIA-TV)
October 10, 2012 – “There’s not just one Susan. There’s a Susan and a Robert and a Mary and many, many others who we could spend all day talking about,’ [said Gill].” (WCIA-TV)

As you can see, David Gill spent hundreds of thousands of dollars for a TV ad and fundraising push all based on a woman who he can’t prove exists. While the ad makes you think he cares deeply about his patients and healthcare, the timeline of David Gill’s own words prove otherwise.

NRCC Statement: “Every time David Gill has been asked about ‘Susan’ his story has changed and the level of deceit has grown exponentially. David Gill’s history of running for office and distorting the truth proves that he’s not fit to represent Illinois families in Congress.” – NRCC Spokeswoman Katie Prill