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ThinkProgress: 5 Reasons Cleveland Is A Terrible Choice To Hold The GOP’s 2016 Convention
http://thinkprogress.org/election/2014/07/08/3457689/rnc-2016-cleveland/The Republican National Committee has selected Cleveland to host its 2016 convention, Chairman Reince Priebus announced on Tuesday. Though the GOP’s desire to carry Ohio’s 18 electoral votes in the 2016 presidential election undoubtedly played a major role in the selection, Republicans will be fighting an uphill battle. They haven’t carried the Buckeye State since 2004, and with good reason: Ohio, and Cleveland in particular, has been bucking Republican policies for years.
Here are five ways:
Cleveland is benefiting from $1.4 billion in stimulus funding. Cleveland and the surrounding area has benefited from more approximately $1.4 billion in stimulus funding following the 2008 financial collapse. This money helped support more than 1,000 projects critical to the local economy, including $800,000 for the Life Skills Center of Cleveland, $600,000 for the Cleveland Foodbank, and $1.5 million for the YWCA. Republicans in the House of Representatives unanimously opposed the recovery package and railed against it on the campaign trail, even as more than 100 GOP lawmakers championed local projects funded by stimulus dollars.
Cleveland is helping expand Obamacare coverage to thousands of lower-income residents. Even as most Republican governors oppose Medicaid expansion, Ohio Gov. John Kasich (R) instead came out in support of the key Obamacare reform and shepherded it through a panel of lawmakers last year. Now Cleveland residents will be key beneficiaries of the expansion, which is expected to extend health coverage to 275,000 of Ohio’s poorest residents and cut the state’s uninsurance rate by two-thirds. In fact, Ohio was one of the success stories of Obamacare during the law’s first open enrollment period, which ended in March of this year, and Cleveland is no small part of that triumph. Organizations ranging from the United Way of Greater Cleveland to the Cuyahoga County Health Alliance to a 38-foot RV helped sign up Clevelanders for Obamacare this year. Meanwhile, the RNC’s official 2012 platform calls for repealing the entirety of Obamacare and criticizes the health reform law for “tremendously expand[ing] Medicaid without significant reform.”
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Here are five ways:
Cleveland is benefiting from $1.4 billion in stimulus funding. Cleveland and the surrounding area has benefited from more approximately $1.4 billion in stimulus funding following the 2008 financial collapse. This money helped support more than 1,000 projects critical to the local economy, including $800,000 for the Life Skills Center of Cleveland, $600,000 for the Cleveland Foodbank, and $1.5 million for the YWCA. Republicans in the House of Representatives unanimously opposed the recovery package and railed against it on the campaign trail, even as more than 100 GOP lawmakers championed local projects funded by stimulus dollars.
Cleveland is helping expand Obamacare coverage to thousands of lower-income residents. Even as most Republican governors oppose Medicaid expansion, Ohio Gov. John Kasich (R) instead came out in support of the key Obamacare reform and shepherded it through a panel of lawmakers last year. Now Cleveland residents will be key beneficiaries of the expansion, which is expected to extend health coverage to 275,000 of Ohio’s poorest residents and cut the state’s uninsurance rate by two-thirds. In fact, Ohio was one of the success stories of Obamacare during the law’s first open enrollment period, which ended in March of this year, and Cleveland is no small part of that triumph. Organizations ranging from the United Way of Greater Cleveland to the Cuyahoga County Health Alliance to a 38-foot RV helped sign up Clevelanders for Obamacare this year. Meanwhile, the RNC’s official 2012 platform calls for repealing the entirety of Obamacare and criticizes the health reform law for “tremendously expand[ing] Medicaid without significant reform.”
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