Category: featured
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What Makes Me Different
I’m not one to blame our problems on one person or one party. I also don’t believe that one solution will solve any of it. Throughout much of my life, when I see a problem I do something about it. I don’t complain, I get to work instead.
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Medicaid Work Reqs a Costly One
Enter the GOP plans to ‘overhaul’ the Medicaid program nationally by imposing work requirements on recipients. I would call this effort an attempt to disrupt healthcare for millions of working Americans, veterans, the chronically ill, and many others.
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Terrorism, Immigration, & Precise Action
I believe we should be talking about real immigration reform, not immigration deform. We need to be focused on real threats to our country, not some expensive unfunded Trump Wall that would be ineffective at stopping ladders and tunnels. I believe we should be debating how better to track visa overstays, not hyper focused on people who’ve been here for most of their lives, working, paying taxes, and living their lives for decades free from violent crime. I believe we should be talking about real policies that protect people instead of dividing the country on cultural and racial lines.
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‘Cockeyed’ Fundraising in the 15th
In a recent news article by the News-Gazette, Tom Kacich highlighted the “cockeyed” fundraising numbers in the race to take back the 15th District for the People. He’s right; the fundraising figures are completely out of balance. If money alone wins elections, Rep. John Shimkus will win, and he has over a million cash on […]
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Trump to End ACA Subsidies
President Trump used the power of the pen to issue executive orders to take away the healthcare of the poor this week. He did this by removing subsidies offered to enrollees that couldn’t afford the high premiums and deductibles that are currently available in the marketplace. Instead of working with Congress to provide increased protections […]
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Democrats for Action, not Litmus
Blue meat like single payer doesn’t sell as well or enough in many of these conservative-leaning House districts to make a difference at the ballot box next November.
