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The Star’s editorial | This week, some scary things aren’t imaginary - KansasCity.com
The Star’s editorial | This week, some scary things aren’t imaginary - KansasCity.com
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Scary senator
A victory for Republican Todd Akin in Missouri’s U.S. Senate race against incumbent Democrat Claire McCaskill on Tuesday would amount to a Halloween hangover. Akin’s “legitimate rape” remarks sent even the GOP establishment scurrying off in horror.
Besides showing a profound disregard for women and science, the congressman has opposed funds for school lunches, federally backed student loans and emergency spending for disaster relief. He was a fringe voter in the U.S. House and would be even more embarrassing in the Senate. Missouri doesn’t need a senator masquerading as a dinosaur — or the other way around.
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Scary senator
A victory for Republican Todd Akin in Missouri’s U.S. Senate race against incumbent Democrat Claire McCaskill on Tuesday would amount to a Halloween hangover. Akin’s “legitimate rape” remarks sent even the GOP establishment scurrying off in horror.
Besides showing a profound disregard for women and science, the congressman has opposed funds for school lunches, federally backed student loans and emergency spending for disaster relief. He was a fringe voter in the U.S. House and would be even more embarrassing in the Senate. Missouri doesn’t need a senator masquerading as a dinosaur — or the other way around.
Sunday, October 21, 2012
Monday, February 13, 2012
Dems knock potential McCaskill rival’s hefty salary amid layoffs - The Hill's Ballot Box
Dems knock potential McCaskill rival’s hefty salary amid layoffs - The Hill's Ballot Box
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Democrats in Missouri are knocking a Republican Senate candidate for taking a hefty salary from the family company he said he was no longer running at the same time that the company laid off workers.
John Brunner, one of three Republicans vying to take on Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.) in November, officially entered the race in October — the same month that Vi-Jon, his family’s health and cosmetic products company, commissioned a round of layoffs that included 36 workers.
Brunner had stepped down as the company’s CEO at the end of 2009, then bowed out of his role as chairman of the board in September 2011, anticipating his entrance into the Senate race the next month. He still serves on the board of directors.
Brunner has used his more-limited role to argue he wasn’t intimately involved in day-to-day decisions at the time the company was letting go of employees. But Brunner’s financial disclosure, filed in early February, shows he took a salary of $372,000 for 2011, which Democrats say chips away at his ability to distance himself from the layoffs.
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Democrats in Missouri are knocking a Republican Senate candidate for taking a hefty salary from the family company he said he was no longer running at the same time that the company laid off workers.
John Brunner, one of three Republicans vying to take on Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.) in November, officially entered the race in October — the same month that Vi-Jon, his family’s health and cosmetic products company, commissioned a round of layoffs that included 36 workers.
Brunner had stepped down as the company’s CEO at the end of 2009, then bowed out of his role as chairman of the board in September 2011, anticipating his entrance into the Senate race the next month. He still serves on the board of directors.
Brunner has used his more-limited role to argue he wasn’t intimately involved in day-to-day decisions at the time the company was letting go of employees. But Brunner’s financial disclosure, filed in early February, shows he took a salary of $372,000 for 2011, which Democrats say chips away at his ability to distance himself from the layoffs.
Wednesday, January 11, 2012
Thursday, September 16, 2010
Carnahan ad pulled off Senate website, still on TV
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KMOV.com
Posted on September 16, 2010 at 4:01 PM
Updated today at 5:22 PM
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) -- A Senate campaign ad for Missouri Democrat Robin Carnahan has been pulled from her website after a lawsuit by Fox News Network alleging copyright infringement.
Carnahan spokesman Linden Zakula defended the ad Thursday and said the campaign believes it complies with the law. Although it was pulled from the Internet, he said the ad will remain on TV.
The ad includes a clip from a 2006 interview by Fox News journalist Christopher Wallace with Republican Congressman Roy Blunt, who is Carnahan's opponent in the Senate race. In it, Wallace cites Blunt's ties to lobbyists and asks whether he's the right man to lead a reform effort.
A federal lawsuit filed Wednesday by Fox News claims copyright infringement and the misuse of Wallace's image.
(Copyright 2010 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)
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for those whom do not know---Fox has donated funds to the Blunt campaign
Friday, June 12, 2009
Sen Shelby and healthcare
In case you did not catch the remarks of Senator Shelby on Fox. Shelby is not an ally of folks trying to reform healthcare by the way nor is very pro-labor in his views.
The good senator opposed the auto-bailout and has a zero rating with the enviromental folks. Auto workers gave him in 07 a rating of 15% (Boilermakers game him a big 0). Afl-cio gave him a big 7% in 2006 of a possible 100% political rating on labor issues.
He is up for reelection in 2010 and watch how many things he will oppose. One hopes the folks in Alabama reflect on this fine gentleman and retire him.
Thursday, June 4, 2009
Update: Senator Baucus and single payer
The following is from the Daily Kos and deals with nurses and Senator Baucus. Baucus sits down with single payer folks:
Inside the Baucus Single-Payer Meeting--What Was Said, What's Next
by National Nurses Movement
title:'Inside the Baucus Single-Payer Meeting--What Was Said, What's Next',
url:'http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2009/6/3/738531/-Inside-the-Baucus-Single-Payer-MeetingWhat-Was-Said,-Whats-Next'},
Wed Jun 03, 2009 at 02:26:08 PM PDT
Today’s meeting of the nation’s leading single payer activists with Sen. Max Baucus was historic, and a recognition of the power of the tens of thousands of nurses, doctors, and grassroots activists across the country who have been turning up the heat on the policy makers in Washington.
Make no mistake – your voices are being heard. And, the protests and pressure will continue.
As Rose Ann DeMoro, executive director of the California Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee, told Baucus, "there is a groundswell" across the country that will continue to press for single payer reform, and Baucus and other policy makers in Washington "are going to get to know us very well." In a later press conference, DeMoro blasted the conventional wisdom that single payer is not politically viable. "Is it politically viable to let people die and suffer from a lack of political will?" Noting the fight for women’s suffrage and the civil rights movement, she emphasized, "we’re going to have to turn up the heat. Women did not get the right to vote by voting on it."
-------------rest of the blog entry deals with more: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/6/3/171427/8822?new=true
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this is part of the rest:
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Baucus talked about his own positive experiences in Canada where he inspected the Canadian healthcare system first hand, "I was very impressed," during the healthcare debate in the early 1990s, noting the contrast between a Montana hospital which has an "entire floor" of people devoted to billing, and other administrative paper work, and a nearby Canadian hospital which does it all "in one room."
He agreed to use the power of his office to have charges dropped against the Baucus 13, nurses, doctors, and activists arrested for raising their voices in the committee hearings.
While Baucus continued to aver that single payer can not pass the legislature, the nurses and doctors pressed him to: • Hold a hearing in which the merits of single payer can be contrasted with the plans now rapidly advancing in the Senate. While Baucus said the tight timeline made that very difficult, Sanders noted that Sen. Chris Dodd is considering a health committee hearing on single payer, which Baucus could co-sponsor. Baucus said, "let me think about it." • Have the Congressional Budget Office score, do a financial analysis, of single payer legislation in addition to other health bills it scores. • Support legislation to allow federal waivers for individual states to enact single payer systems as national role models (another Sanders bill). • Assist in arranging a similar meeting between single payer leaders and President Obama.
Ultimately, Baucus threw the ball back to the President, citing the demand of the President to Congress to have a bill on his desk by October. "He wants a big win on healthcare reform," Baucus said. But the rush to adopt a flawed bill would hardly serve the Senate or the President well, DeMoro noted. "The President would be putting himself in a very bad position. We don’t want that to happen."
One after one, the other participants made compelling cases for single payer. Dr. Marcia Angell, former editor of the New England Journal of Medicine, noted that only single payer can achieve effective cost controls. The alternatives being considered are "all unaffordable and unsustainable. Why pour more money into a dysfunctional system."
PNHP co-founder Dr. David Himmelstein said "the decision should be made on what’s going to work." He cited the Massachusetts law, where he lives, which is considered a model for both the Baucus proposal and the pending Kennedy bill. The bill is rapidly "fraying," said Himmelstein. Some 28,000 state residents are about to be cut off of subsidized coverage because the state can’t afford it, and new studies show conditions for many state residents back to where they were before the bill was passed with inadequate or no coverage, and medical bills they can’t pay.
Geri Jenkins, RN, Co-President of CNA/NNOC, said "we need evidence based policy," and all the evidence shows that single payer is the best way to contain costs, improve quality, and achieve universality.
PNHP President Dr. Oliver Fein cited the study last year reported in the Annals of Internal Medicine that 59 percent of physicians support a single-payer type system, and a new study showing doctors waste three to four weeks a year on paperwork that could be spent caring for patients. Sanders later praised the efforts of nurses, doctors and activists who have made single payer an inescapable part of the public discourse. "When you have the nurses and physicians saying the current system is not working," scores of people saying health care is a right and single payer the most cost effective approach, we’re seeing this grassroots movement growing and gaining momentum.
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One wonders if a person should "trust" folks that publically side with the thieves of Wall Street. One wonders how honest a person can be that accepts millions from these folks.
I suspect a bit of "fence mending" was the object of this meeting, not real substantial fact finding and opinion sharing.
One also wonders that as the "single payer folks" get organized to fight for single payer; how many single payer folks will hold their leaders responsible for their stacking the deck in favor of big business?
Democrats note: if you like the majorities you hold in congress, one had better listen to the American people. Yes, only 60% of folks favor a "public" health insurance; there are many more that have never heard of program proposals like HR676. I know of hard core Republicans whom favor a HR676 type program in Missouri.
Inside the Baucus Single-Payer Meeting--What Was Said, What's Next
by National Nurses Movement
title:'Inside the Baucus Single-Payer Meeting--What Was Said, What's Next',
url:'http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2009/6/3/738531/-Inside-the-Baucus-Single-Payer-MeetingWhat-Was-Said,-Whats-Next'},
Wed Jun 03, 2009 at 02:26:08 PM PDT
Today’s meeting of the nation’s leading single payer activists with Sen. Max Baucus was historic, and a recognition of the power of the tens of thousands of nurses, doctors, and grassroots activists across the country who have been turning up the heat on the policy makers in Washington.
Make no mistake – your voices are being heard. And, the protests and pressure will continue.
As Rose Ann DeMoro, executive director of the California Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee, told Baucus, "there is a groundswell" across the country that will continue to press for single payer reform, and Baucus and other policy makers in Washington "are going to get to know us very well." In a later press conference, DeMoro blasted the conventional wisdom that single payer is not politically viable. "Is it politically viable to let people die and suffer from a lack of political will?" Noting the fight for women’s suffrage and the civil rights movement, she emphasized, "we’re going to have to turn up the heat. Women did not get the right to vote by voting on it."
-------------rest of the blog entry deals with more: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/6/3/171427/8822?new=true
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this is part of the rest:
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Baucus talked about his own positive experiences in Canada where he inspected the Canadian healthcare system first hand, "I was very impressed," during the healthcare debate in the early 1990s, noting the contrast between a Montana hospital which has an "entire floor" of people devoted to billing, and other administrative paper work, and a nearby Canadian hospital which does it all "in one room."
He agreed to use the power of his office to have charges dropped against the Baucus 13, nurses, doctors, and activists arrested for raising their voices in the committee hearings.
While Baucus continued to aver that single payer can not pass the legislature, the nurses and doctors pressed him to: • Hold a hearing in which the merits of single payer can be contrasted with the plans now rapidly advancing in the Senate. While Baucus said the tight timeline made that very difficult, Sanders noted that Sen. Chris Dodd is considering a health committee hearing on single payer, which Baucus could co-sponsor. Baucus said, "let me think about it." • Have the Congressional Budget Office score, do a financial analysis, of single payer legislation in addition to other health bills it scores. • Support legislation to allow federal waivers for individual states to enact single payer systems as national role models (another Sanders bill). • Assist in arranging a similar meeting between single payer leaders and President Obama.
Ultimately, Baucus threw the ball back to the President, citing the demand of the President to Congress to have a bill on his desk by October. "He wants a big win on healthcare reform," Baucus said. But the rush to adopt a flawed bill would hardly serve the Senate or the President well, DeMoro noted. "The President would be putting himself in a very bad position. We don’t want that to happen."
One after one, the other participants made compelling cases for single payer. Dr. Marcia Angell, former editor of the New England Journal of Medicine, noted that only single payer can achieve effective cost controls. The alternatives being considered are "all unaffordable and unsustainable. Why pour more money into a dysfunctional system."
PNHP co-founder Dr. David Himmelstein said "the decision should be made on what’s going to work." He cited the Massachusetts law, where he lives, which is considered a model for both the Baucus proposal and the pending Kennedy bill. The bill is rapidly "fraying," said Himmelstein. Some 28,000 state residents are about to be cut off of subsidized coverage because the state can’t afford it, and new studies show conditions for many state residents back to where they were before the bill was passed with inadequate or no coverage, and medical bills they can’t pay.
Geri Jenkins, RN, Co-President of CNA/NNOC, said "we need evidence based policy," and all the evidence shows that single payer is the best way to contain costs, improve quality, and achieve universality.
PNHP President Dr. Oliver Fein cited the study last year reported in the Annals of Internal Medicine that 59 percent of physicians support a single-payer type system, and a new study showing doctors waste three to four weeks a year on paperwork that could be spent caring for patients. Sanders later praised the efforts of nurses, doctors and activists who have made single payer an inescapable part of the public discourse. "When you have the nurses and physicians saying the current system is not working," scores of people saying health care is a right and single payer the most cost effective approach, we’re seeing this grassroots movement growing and gaining momentum.
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One wonders if a person should "trust" folks that publically side with the thieves of Wall Street. One wonders how honest a person can be that accepts millions from these folks.
I suspect a bit of "fence mending" was the object of this meeting, not real substantial fact finding and opinion sharing.
One also wonders that as the "single payer folks" get organized to fight for single payer; how many single payer folks will hold their leaders responsible for their stacking the deck in favor of big business?
Democrats note: if you like the majorities you hold in congress, one had better listen to the American people. Yes, only 60% of folks favor a "public" health insurance; there are many more that have never heard of program proposals like HR676. I know of hard core Republicans whom favor a HR676 type program in Missouri.
Tuesday, May 12, 2009
The senator respects us, then jails single-payer folks and proposes to tax health benefits
The senator respects the single payer folks. That is no doubt why he has excluded us from healthcare talks and why he had supporters jailed. Then, they listen and nod as folks say they should tax our meager health care benefits like good sycophants. I thought John McCain lost the election, but no doubt his taxing our health benefits live with some democrats.
That congress should fawn over Wall Street folks, that is no surprise for they have done so often; but these folks take it to new levels. I have a few adjectives for these folks, but I doubt google would let me say them on their networks.
This is a vid of the latest round of folks getting jailed for speaking up for single payer healthcare. This is the last of the senate Finance committee meeting, but other congressional committees have upcoming healthcare meetings.
The congress and Obama should pat themselves on the back for the fine job they have done for the HMOS, insurance companies and drug companies.
Protecting the bottom line and perks of Wall Street, that is what our government is about these days. Change?
Again, what did we vote for the last election ? I wonder if some dems actually believe that some of us are not going to hold accountable the fearless leaders in 2010 and 2012. In Missouri, if a good deal of supporters of HR676 switch support from the dems to say the Greens; wonder what the dem count will be in congress from my state. That might well occur in other areas of the nation.
Soar 11-3 does respect the single payer folks whom represented us in congress (briefly, until jailed) and our hats off once again.
That congress should fawn over Wall Street folks, that is no surprise for they have done so often; but these folks take it to new levels. I have a few adjectives for these folks, but I doubt google would let me say them on their networks.
This is a vid of the latest round of folks getting jailed for speaking up for single payer healthcare. This is the last of the senate Finance committee meeting, but other congressional committees have upcoming healthcare meetings.
The congress and Obama should pat themselves on the back for the fine job they have done for the HMOS, insurance companies and drug companies.
Protecting the bottom line and perks of Wall Street, that is what our government is about these days. Change?
Again, what did we vote for the last election ? I wonder if some dems actually believe that some of us are not going to hold accountable the fearless leaders in 2010 and 2012. In Missouri, if a good deal of supporters of HR676 switch support from the dems to say the Greens; wonder what the dem count will be in congress from my state. That might well occur in other areas of the nation.
Soar 11-3 does respect the single payer folks whom represented us in congress (briefly, until jailed) and our hats off once again.
thanks again you tube
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Sunday, May 10, 2009
Obama and single payer healthcare
Morning folks.
You tube has this little snip of Obama making reference to single payer health system. During the election, Obama moved back and forth on the issue.
Folks at Soar 11-3 are going to hold Obama accountable for the following, his support of single payer healthcare. So far, with the excluding of single-payer folks from his healthcare summits and the latest snap in congress; we are not amused.
One hopes this upcoming Tuesday, the senate allows the single-payer folks to attend. Mr. Bauchus "respects" us, but let's see if he allows access to his Bannana Republic hearings (note, Mr Bauchus had cops remove single-payer folks and told folks we need "more cops". In the meantime, the phone number for the committee is (202) 224-4515.
Call their office, leave a message to allow single-payer folks a seat at the table (as was promised)
Also, remember that May 30th is the nationwide action day for healthcare. Call the folks in power and let them know your position.
Mr C Bond, senator: phone dc: (202) 224-5721 and St. Louis: (314) 725-4484
his Cape Girardeau Office is: (573) 334-7044
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Ms Claire McCaskill: phone dc: (202) 224-6154 and St. Louis: 314-367-1364
her Cape Girardeaus Office: 573-651-0964
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You tube has this little snip of Obama making reference to single payer health system. During the election, Obama moved back and forth on the issue.
Folks at Soar 11-3 are going to hold Obama accountable for the following, his support of single payer healthcare. So far, with the excluding of single-payer folks from his healthcare summits and the latest snap in congress; we are not amused.
One hopes this upcoming Tuesday, the senate allows the single-payer folks to attend. Mr. Bauchus "respects" us, but let's see if he allows access to his Bannana Republic hearings (note, Mr Bauchus had cops remove single-payer folks and told folks we need "more cops". In the meantime, the phone number for the committee is (202) 224-4515.
Call their office, leave a message to allow single-payer folks a seat at the table (as was promised)
Also, remember that May 30th is the nationwide action day for healthcare. Call the folks in power and let them know your position.
Mr C Bond, senator: phone dc: (202) 224-5721 and St. Louis: (314) 725-4484
his Cape Girardeau Office is: (573) 334-7044
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Ms Claire McCaskill: phone dc: (202) 224-6154 and St. Louis: 314-367-1364
her Cape Girardeaus Office: 573-651-0964
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Friday, May 8, 2009
Dems want healthcare -congress
The following is from the ED Show today. This interview deals with the complexity of getting healthcare bill thru senate and potential problems.
Multipayers take note, you are going to need the single-payer folks to get stuff done and some of us single-payers are not flipping on this subject at this time. Better seat a few of us at the table and seriously talk with us or take the risks of failure.
The otherside, parisites all; are unified. They attacked well before the healthcare summits and meetings were over. They intend to protect their cash flow and care not that a few thousand folks die from lack of health care.
Since Obama took the oath of office, estimates of 56 folks die each day from lack of healthcare. This does not contain the numbers whom die because the HMO or Insurance company says "No". How many folks will die before folks decide to do something?
The hell with insurance companies and HMOs, pass HR676 today.
Multipayers take note, you are going to need the single-payer folks to get stuff done and some of us single-payers are not flipping on this subject at this time. Better seat a few of us at the table and seriously talk with us or take the risks of failure.
The otherside, parisites all; are unified. They attacked well before the healthcare summits and meetings were over. They intend to protect their cash flow and care not that a few thousand folks die from lack of health care.
Since Obama took the oath of office, estimates of 56 folks die each day from lack of healthcare. This does not contain the numbers whom die because the HMO or Insurance company says "No". How many folks will die before folks decide to do something?
The hell with insurance companies and HMOs, pass HR676 today.
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