Blue_true
Blue_true's JournalLook for a stunner out of Arizona on Tuesday.
I have read media reports on her positions and feel that she is a well spoken, organized candidate and is speaking directly to the people of her district.
I get a strong feeling that the democrat, Hiral Tipirneni is going to win the special election for the Az 8 House seat. She just has a sounder message than Lesko has.
I am a southerner, but.
I have always wondered why southern people like so much noise, i.e., loud vehicle mufflers, loud motor bikes, loud talk, ect. I grew up at the edge of a small city and the countryside, so eventhough I say that I was a country boy, I really wasn't. Is the noise a rural, small city thing? I don't see it in western or northern places, but I admit to only being in cities in those places.
Maybe I am behind the times.
Has anyone seen installment payment funerals? I was driving on a highway today and saw an ad for such a thing. That was kind of practical for some people, but also sad.
Losers last night?
1. The Trump political ideology.
2. Rick Saccone.
3. The Our Revolution ideology.
Florida House Seat flipped, republican to democrat.
Margaret Good defeated the republican by 3000 votes in the Sarasota Florida district special election. Not sure whether this was covered on DU earlier this week.
I refused to sign a ballot petition today.
I was out and about this morning and came upon a guy asking for signatures to put a candidate on the ballot. I asked what party, he said republican, I said no, I support democrats and walked away. The guy was courteous, but even with that, I view him as a wolf in sheep's clothing, given the likely bent of the potential candidate he is collecting signatures for.
I usually have no issue with signing ballot petitions, I can always vote against stuff that I don't like. But republicans outnumber democrats in my county by just under 2:1, if the guy gets on the ballot, he will not have my democratic signature helping him reach the threshold. BTW, there are lots of Independents here, about the same amount as there are democrats.
I have no regrets about the choice that I made.
Pre-existing conditions.
I talked to a person today by chance. The person had surgery to resolve a life threatening condition. I noticed medical aids the person was still using and had to ask questions about what happened.
I was told what happened, but it is what I was told next that blew my mind. Surgery to correct the condition cost the person several hundred thousand dollars. The person seemed psyched out because the insurance policy that the person maintained for seven years is refusing to pay any of the cost, even for medicine and physical therapy, ZERO, nothing at all.
Even if the person had a shitty, high deductible policy that President Obama warned about, the out of pocket for the type of surgery seems high (brain surgery to relieve pressure on the brain and fusing of a disk in the spine). Maybe the Doctors on DU can give an idea of how much such surgery cost, but from what I understood it cost $200-300 thousand dollars and the insurance company is refusing to pay a dime, citing pre-existing conditions because the person had a spinal injury in an automobile accident that existed before the policy was purchased.
Any thoughts?
I suggested that the person call a law office that sues insurance companies, but with Trump in office and republicans rolling back consumer protections, trying to repeal Obamacare and stacking the Courts with incompetent rightwing stooges, I am not optimistic.
BTW, hearing the person's story is why I want to rip the throats out of the "no difference" idiots and the Bernie or busters. What is happening to that person can happen to any middleclass or poor person who doesn't have a free few hundred thousand dollars sitting around.
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