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Jim Cooper
@repjimcooper
Nashville area Rep in Congress. Voting rights, health care, budget, oversight & defense. Grandfather. Struggling banjo player🪕. Tweets by Jim & staff.
Jun 2, 2023 • 17 tweets • 10 min read
Been off Twitter for 6 months. I'm back!

Why? The pending takeover of @AliveHospice by out-of-state for-profit corporation, @AmedisysInc. They will shortchange our dying loved ones.

Together we can stop this outrage, if we act now.

Read on. Help if you're persuaded...

1/ Check out great coverage by local journalists like @NC5_JKraus

Many of you know that my late wife, Martha, died peacefully under great care of @AliveHospice after her Alzheimers. 5,000 Middle TNs like my family get help from them every year.

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Jan 12, 2022 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
As I’ve been warning for almost a year, the General Assembly has formally begun gerrymandering Nashville and Davidson County into political oblivion. Under the new map announced today, Nashvillians will be reduced from proud citizens of a capital city to captives inside three colonies run from Clarksville, Cookeville, and Columbia.
Jul 9, 2021 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
(1/4): Tennessee needs to expand Medicaid. The state’s continued refusal is costing LIVES and leaving billions of dollars in federal funds on the table. (2/4): Rejecting Medicaid expansion cost the lives of 964 Tennesseans ages 55-64 from 2014 to 2017.

These people DIED because our state leadership chose politics over people.

The risks are even more pronounced for people of color, who make up 33% of the coverage gap in the TN.
Jan 3, 2019 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
Today I voted “present” in the vote for Speaker of the House, consistent with my eight-year push for new Democratic leadership. Now that we are back in the majority, I did not vote for a rival candidate because there are none. I am very excited about the new Democratic majority. Finally, the Republican monopoly on power in Washington is over. Now, one half of one of the three branches of government will be able to stand up to President Trump when he is wrong.