BUSTED: GOP lawmaker who lectured Obamacare recipients on iPhones let's donors pay his phone bill
ERIN CORBETT
07 MAR 2017 AT 13:53 ET
Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) faced criticism on Tuesday morning after appearing on CNN to discuss the GOP’s proposed Obamacare replacement plan. Chaffetz argued that Americans are personally responsible for their health care, rather than it being a service that the U.S. government should provide.
“You know what, Americans have choices, and they’ve got to make a choice,” he said. “And so maybe, rather than getting that new iPhone that they just love and want to go spend hundreds of dollars on, maybe they should invest in their own health care.” That’s easy to say, for someone who doesn’t pay his own phone bill.
According to the Federal Election Commission, Chaffetz’s political action committee (PAC) pays his Verizon bills. The 2014 document, which Intercept reporter Lee Fang shared on Twitter, shows that Chaffetz’s “rich donors” paid multiple Verizon Wireless bills between May and July of 2014, totaling nearly $1,000. Chaffetz’s campaign donations came from corporations, including Pfizer, Inc. and Goldman Sachs.
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Take a bow, Mr Fang, you helped elect Trumpy.
Holy cats.
