North Country Lawmakers, Candidates Weigh In On Contraception Controversy

The Adirondack Daily Enterprise reports:

Watertown businessman Matt Doheny, who is gunning for the Republican nomination to run against Owens in November, said Friday, "President Obama finally admitted today what I - and millions of my fellow Americans - have known for weeks. He has no authority to make rules that violate the free exercise of religion as protected by the First Amendment to the Constitution.

"Our current congressman, however, remains out of touch with his district," Doheny continued. "My opponent continues to pretend that it's perfectly acceptable for government to use the guise of 'greater good' to mandate what insurance will cover, regardless of whose freedoms are trampled."

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