AARP finds rebels in its ranks From: Deseret News (Salt Lake City) | Date: November 27, 2003| Author: | Copyright 2003 Deseret News (Salt Lake City). Provided by ProQuest LLC.Copyright information

BOSTON -- Senior citizens angry over the AARP's endorsement of the Medicare bill are ripping up or burning their AARP membership cards and flooding the lobbying group's Internet message board with complaints in what could be the biggest revolt in its ranks since the 1980s.

Many fear the Republican-backed bill approved by Congress on Tuesday will harm senior citizens, and they say the AARP -- the nation's most influential retiree lobby, with 35 million members -- sold them out.

The bill "destroys one of the most successful programs in the history of this country," Isaac Ben Ezra, president of ...

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