As Rob McKenna announces his intention to run for governor, I am remembering he was one of the pile-on crowd joining suits to nullify all or parts of the Affordable Care Act — the only public health care law for the entire nation ever passed.
I won’t forget the campaigns of the new Republican governors in Wisconsin, Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, New Jersey, Florida, and others. They didn’t mention in their campaigning that they had in mind to weaken or destroy labor rights, slash education spending to give tax breaks to businesses and high income people, require drug testing of those applying for assistance and for public employees without good cause, “reforming” election laws to adversely affect the old, poor, disabled — attempting, sometimes successfully, to restrict or make more difficult the exercise of a woman’s constitutional right to make her own health care decisions. Too bad there isn’t a marketplace for buyer’s remorse because that guy would be a new billionaire today.
Make your own list — there will be more to add to it. Read it often, and remember. Next time they may come for you.
Jack McClurg
Marysville
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