Article: Baker's Blue Cross role blasted: Jim Haggerty's TV ad is misleading, the Baker camp says as the election nears.

Byline: Michael P. Buffer

May 11--State Senate candidate Jim Haggerty rips GOP rival Lisa Baker in a new TV ad featuring an elderly woman who complains Baker "wasn't there to help me decide between buying my medicine or buying my groceries."

In new radio and TV spots, Haggerty accuses Blue Cross of Northeastern Pennsylvania of raising insurance premiums and cutting benefits to fund "a public relations scheme" run by Baker, who was director of Blue Cross' nonprofit Blue Ribbon Foundation from April 2002 to October 2005. "Can you believe Baker raked in a quarter of a million dollars to hand out oversized checks?" the narrator asks. "Your money" ...

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