Discussion: Trump Health Appointee Bought Stock In Tobacco Company One Month Into Job

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What the department’s statement does NOT do is to deal with her judgment in buying the stock. How does anyone interested in health buy stock in a company whose business involves killing people with cigarettes?

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“The jury is still out on tobacco smoking. Weed is another matter !”

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Turkey wattle neck.

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Relax, people. Nowadays tobacco companies make their money selling poison to shithole/house countries.

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Like all Trump appointees, she does not give a flying *#!& about the departmentmemt she is the head of. Health?!? What a joke. She cares about power and money.

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Just another craven Republican politician, getting while the getting’s good!

Run for office- the 2018 elections are 10 months away! And if Trump and Louie Gohmert and Steve King can get elected what’s to stop a qualified candidate?

Become a Precinct Committee Officer, sometimes it’s a Ward officer. You’ll meet with neighborhood Dems and get out the vote. Find good citizens willing to run for office.

Register people to vote. If you need to help people overcome the GOP-led Voter run-around help them do that.

Run for School Board. Make sure Civics is being properly taught. Think a majority of America knows how government works? Just 26% of eligible voters in America voted for Trump and half of eligible voters stayed home last November. Today’s 12-year olds will be voting for President in 8 years.

Run for Mayor, City Council, County Commissioner, Borough Assembly.

Get appointed to your Planning Commission. Know everything going on in your community.

Run for State Legislature or Congress. The next census is in 2020, just a year and a half from now, when we redraw Congressional Districts. And Trump is ALREADY trying to rig the census!

And get rid of GERRYMANDERING! Safe GOP seats gave us such intellectual giants as Louie Gohmert and Steve King. In most cases it’s the state Legislature that draws Congressional boundaries. Make it FAIR, OPEN and HONEST! We can do this!

Overturn Citizens United. Money is NOT speech and Corporations are NOT people- at least not until Texas executes one, and overturn any voter ID laws that are clearly an attempt to disenfranchise the poor and people of color.
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“Those who would purposely mislead or seek to confuse others are bad people. Worse, they are evil.”
-Kathleen Parker

You Got To Run!

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Water Wet.
Sky Blue.
Shit Stink.

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Doctor Fitzgerald was just trying to live up to her Hypocritical Oath.

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Nothing to see here, move alo…ok, a little bit to see, but still, move alo…well, we’ll see your “shenanigans!” and raise you a “Nuh-uh!”…sheesh…Ok…how about those Yankees?!

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We all get old, and look older, someday if we are lucky enough. I’m not a fan of Brenda Fitzgerald, but as a woman who will probably have a turkey wattle neck myself someday, I think this kind of commentary on the looks of someone who is showing signs of aging is uncalled-for.

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so the purchase raised questions about conflicts of interest.

Conflicts of what now?

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It’s the part where they’re not even good at being corrupt because there’s no need to hide it that’s killing us.

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I am shocked—shocked to find conflicts of interest going on here.

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‘Well yeah she BOUGHT them but then she sold them because you know, freedom, or something so it’s all OK now…and I’m sure you’re just harassing her or fake news or…’

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Yes, it is just so unexpected in this Maladministration…

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“Interested in health”? HAHAHAHAHAHA. Just like Tom “name your” Price.

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Is more evidence needed or is that the smoking gun?

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How do you like them optics, everyone? Good grief. It’s inconceivable that she didn’t see the problem here, but then again, she’s a republican. Ethics? Conflict of interest? Liberal nonsense.

I just saw another poll question here.

In the last year, some Obamacare (ACA) insurance exchanges have seen large price spikes and decreasing numbers of insurers participating exchanges. Do you believe these problems are largely tied to shortcomings in the law itself or the actions of insurers?

I don’t know	
Mainly actions of the insurers	
A mix of both	
Mainly problems with the law

I don’t see a choice I would pick as the culprit. Why is that?

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