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Lint Head

(15,064 posts)
Thu Apr 2, 2015, 05:19 PM Apr 2015

The audacity of this obvious jerk! Please contact if you can. He is an example of the GOP nation

wide. On Tuesday night, a Tennessee Senate committee voted to deny some 280,000 state residents access to health care, rejecting a plan to expand Medicaid that would have cost the state nothing.


Following the vote, advocates for expansion ran into state Sen. Todd Gardenhire (R), a wealth manager at Morgan Stanley who sits on the committee. One activist, Damien Crisp, asked Gardenhire if he would be willing to give up his own state-subsidized health insurance.

Gardenhire, in a video of the incident taken by another activist, turned around and said something along the lines of "Not giving it up, asshole" or, perhaps, "Why don't you give it up, asshole?" ("Asshole" is the clearest part of his rejoinder.)
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/04/01/todd-gardenhire_n_6986582.html?cps=gravity_2425_-1375174207172446721

http://www.tngopsenate.com/members/senator-todd-gardenhire/

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R – Chattanooga
Part of Bradley and Part of Hamilton Counties

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Chattanooga, TN 37421

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The audacity of this obvious jerk! Please contact if you can. He is an example of the GOP nation (Original Post) Lint Head Apr 2015 OP
It is ironic that the death panels Republicans warned us about Agnosticsherbet Apr 2015 #1
He is a FUCKING murderer, when are we going to act like that? NoJusticeNoPeace Apr 2015 #2
Act like murderers? arcane1 Apr 2015 #8
What an ass. Arugula Latte Apr 2015 #3
just like most Repukes, PowerToThePeople Apr 2015 #4
Would a guy with a rug like that try to fool you? immoderate Apr 2015 #5
He would try but badly. lol Lint Head Apr 2015 #6
Noticed that right off the bat... Cooley Hurd Apr 2015 #7
 

Cooley Hurd

(26,877 posts)
7. Noticed that right off the bat...
Thu Apr 2, 2015, 06:01 PM
Apr 2015

If he cannot even be honest with those he has interpersonal relationships with, how can one believe he's honest overall.

(For the record, I've been bald since 30yo, and never ONCE considered a toupee. It always seemed soooo skeevy to me. Besides, I'm a cutie without it )

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