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Former Mississippi Republican State Senator Switches To Democratic Party Because Of Obamacare
http://www.addictinginfo.org/2015/02/07/mississippi-senator-party-switch/Mississippi State Senator Tim Johnson has just jumped ship from the Republican Party. On top of that, he also announced in a press conference held last Wednesday that he will run for Lt. Governor of Mississippi in the next election. He cites failure to accept a five million dollars from the federal government as part of the Medicaid Expansion component of Obamacare as a major part of his reason for leaving the party.
“I am announcing today that I am, I am switching to the Mississippi Democratic Party. And I also want to announce that I am running to be the next Lieutenant Governor of the great state of Mississippi.
Why join the Democratic Party and run for Lieutenant Governor? I’ll tell you. We are all Mississippians first. Elected officials should be in the business of helping all Mississippians. Not picking out who to hurt.
In the current way of doing business in our State Capitol and especially in the State Senate, has hurt a lot of my fellow Mississippians. We watch these current leaders make excuses for underfunding our schools. We see them refuse to repair and maintain our crumbling roads and bridges. And we stood by while they ignored the twelve thousand dollars pay gap between working women and men. We have also witnessed shocking corruption on their watch.
Why join the Democratic Party and run for Lieutenant Governor? I’ll tell you. We are all Mississippians first. Elected officials should be in the business of helping all Mississippians. Not picking out who to hurt.
In the current way of doing business in our State Capitol and especially in the State Senate, has hurt a lot of my fellow Mississippians. We watch these current leaders make excuses for underfunding our schools. We see them refuse to repair and maintain our crumbling roads and bridges. And we stood by while they ignored the twelve thousand dollars pay gap between working women and men. We have also witnessed shocking corruption on their watch.
The GOP at large should take heed of this announcement. The anti-woman, anti-poor, and complete disregard for fiscal responsibility stance of neo-conservatism is starting to sound rather ridiculous even to Republicans. To quote a verse from a Rage Against The Machine song, “hungry people don’t stay hungry for long.” Billionaires can buy all the advertising they want to support the new GOP but ultimately they cannot buy votes. The people are hungry and the Republican Party wants to cut food stamps.
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