THREAD: @aidachavez reports below on @cindyhydesmith's 1990s lobbying work for the health policies she now opposes, so...did @MikeEspyMS have a healthcare platform in the 1990s, you ask?
Why, yes he did! Espy's plan was basically rural Obamacare. 1/4
Espy noted that health insurance companies gouged agricultural workers and businesses on premiums because farming is a high-risk occupation and farmers had little or no opportunity to pool their risks. 2/4
Espy remarks about how the Clinton administration's health plan would meet rural needs apply fittingly to the guaranteed issue and community rating provisions ultimately passed into law in the ACA, that we all now rely on (and that Cindy wants to gut). 3/4
Around the same time, former MS Gov. Kirk Fordice said that healthcare is MS voters' #1 issue but that no one had a plan for it.
Healthcare is still MS voters' #1 issue. @MikeEspyMS has a plan for it, and @cindyhydesmith does not. 4/4
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Cindy's 2018 donors are still waiting for $50,000+ worth of refunds they demanded when Cindy said "I'd be on the front row" for a public hanging and "it's a great idea" to make voting "more difficult." abcnews.go.com/Politics/repub…
Keep the support flowing to Mike, everyone—Cindy couldn't even break six figures on her own, but Lord knows how much Trump raked in for her yesterday 😬 secure.actblue.com/donate/espy-so…
After being introduced by the host, Naresh Vissa, Vissa asked Cindy about what she had done for Hindu Americans, and Cindy responded that she had hired Umesh Sanjanwala as her chief aide when she became MS agriculture commissioner.
Cindy is correct that Mike is outraising her (though to win, Mike needs enough funds for a GOTV operation to reach MS Democratic voters who became inactive voters since 2008 and to improve his margin of white voters by a hair). 2/