Ohio Democratic Star, Nina Turner, To Keynote Single-Payer Conference

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Ohio Democratic Star, Nina Turner, To Keynote Single-Payer Conference

by John Michael Spinelli on December 26, 2016

An Ohio Democrat from Cleveland who left the constraints of public office in the Ohio Senate after becoming term-limited and losing a race for secretary of state in the same year, Nina Turner is the model of an out-spoken politician.

Turner has been seen as a rising star for Democrats. The Clevelander formed a partnership of sorts with David Pepper from Cincinnati in 2014, when they called dubbed themselves the “election protection” team. Turner lost her statewide race as did Pepper, with the latter rising to Chairman of the Ohio Democratic Party and the former becoming a sought-after commentator on national political talk shows.

Turner, who ruffled a few feathers when she broke ranks with Hillary Clinton and cast her fate with Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, will be in the spotlight again soon, this time as the keynote speaker for the Single-Payer Strategy Conference in New York City, January 13-15.

Turner spoke at The People’s Summit in Chicago, June 17, 2016, on why she decided to back Senator Bernie Sanders for President, and “why her mother’s early death called her to the fight for $15 and single-payer healthcare, and lessons from her grandmother about the wishbone, the jawbone, and the backbone.”

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[Raine]

1. Good, I'm glad she's staying involved. nt

[pnwmom]

2. A "star" who refused to endorse the convention nominee and lost her own statewide race.

Maybe not such a Democratic star.

[malaise]

3. Nina can help rebuild the Democratic Party

She's a serious woman

[mfcorey1]

4. Democrat?

[think]

5. Yes. One with some backbone...

[mfcorey1]

7. I thought she was an follower of Jill Stein.

[think]

8. I don't doubt she has respect for the Greens and their platform. But no. She's a Democrat.

She is an outspoken supporter of single payer health care.

It is a shameful that America is the only wealthy country left in the world that does have universal healthcare for it's citizens:

http://www.politifact.com/virginia/statements/2015/sep/01/dan-gecker/dan-gecker-says-us-only-wealth-nation-without-univ/

Thankfully we have some Democrats showing bold leadership and pushing to end this travesty...

[SaschaHM]

6. I thought she left the party after the primary.

Can't wait until she fades away into obscurity.

[think]

9. She's still a Democrat. Any thoughts on single payer and the conference? America is the only wealthy

nation to lack universal healthcare.

Isn't it time for America to join the rest of the modern world and provide universal healthcare?

[taught_me_patience]

10. "star"

More like fringe outcast. She made her own bed...

[think]

11. OK. Are you for universal healthcare? Do you have anything to add in relation to the article?

[RonniePudding]

12. Stars aint what they used to be if she's considered one.