Capitol Protesters Target Perry's Medicaid Announcement
Chanting “2, 4, 6, 8, we want health care, we can’t wait!" Texans from across the state descended on the Capitol on Tuesday to protest Gov. Rick Perry’s announcement that Texas wouldn’t implement key elements of health care reform.
“I think Perry will hear our noise,” said Ar’Sheill Sinclair, a spokeswoman for Good Jobs Great Houston, which organized the 30-minute protest along with the Texas Organizing Project.
An estimated 150 protesters took buses from cities including Houston and Dallas and gathered in the Capitol rotunda at noon before walking to Perry’s second-floor office. They expressed ...
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Bambi Clark via Texas Tribune on Facebook
He has no plan but the one Grover gave him. Drown the "gooberment" in the bathtub Rick. He salutes and marches on.
jpt51
Whether its inadequate health care for the poor or a $4 billion cut for public schools, our state leaders have failed miserably to perform their jobs. But hey, that crowd can still scrape up a quarter billion of our tax dollars, (over the a decade) to give billionaire and Perry campaign contributor Red McCombs for his pet project, Formula 1 racing. What's more important, our children's future employment and health or entertaining the jet set one weekend a year? Hands down, Perry, Dewhurst, Combs, Straus and Abbot favor the 1% over our kid’s future jobs and health. It's time to boot them all out of office. The teachers showed Mark White the door in 1978 and the public has even more reason to show these egomaniacs the door at the first opportunity.
Rudy Gonzales
I rebuke Rick Perry as he does not represent all Texans, just the elite few. When the leadership, or positioning proposed leadership do not interrupt the booing audience when an American soldier, in theater, in uniform, questions about D.A.D.T. - They do not represent me!
When the leadership, or positioning proposed leadership fail to adequately provide true transparency - They do not represent me!
When the leadership, or positioning proposed leadership force women to undergo medical procedures to enforce their religious beliefs - They do not represent me!
Staying home or not caring about voting is abrogation of your rights. Those rights could be taken away much like the TEA party and others who have already forced women to under go medical procedures just because they can.
It will take everyone in America to stand up to the right-winged Toxic Extremist Arrogance(TEA) who will not compromise, and who have already taken over local and state political and policy making.
Janet Thomas
Well I see the gimme-crats were at it again while the rest of us were working yesterday. How about self-reliance, self-suffiency an I'll do it myself. Nowhere in the constitution (federal or state) is there anything about health care being a "right" and it shouldn't be. I don't have health care and I certainly don't expect the government to give it to me. Remember "there is no free lunch", everything comes with a price tag. The problem is we've got a lot of people in this country who feel their entitled to anything they want, which is one reason this country is going down the tube. Stand your ground Governor Perry!
T D
Janet, we're all gonna be saying "gimee" when we're on our deathbeds.
In this, no one is more self-sufficient than anyone else: we need help in this life, and even getting out of it.
Have you really set aside hundreds of thousands of dollars for expensive end-stage care?