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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe 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/
District 10
R Chattanooga
Part of Bradley and Part of Hamilton Counties
District Address
6942 Jesse Conner Road
Chattanooga, TN 37421
E-Mail Address
sen.todd.gardenhire@capitol.tn.gov
Nashville Address
301 6th Avenue North
Suite 11 A Legislative Plaza
Nashville, TN 37243
Phone (615) 741-6682
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Agnosticsherbet
(11,619 posts)consist of Republicans.
NoJusticeNoPeace
(5,018 posts)arcane1
(38,613 posts)Arugula Latte
(50,566 posts)He looks like Phil Donohue's evil twin.
PowerToThePeople
(9,610 posts)couldn't give a shit about anybody but themselves.
immoderate
(20,885 posts)--imm
Lint Head
(15,064 posts)Cooley Hurd
(26,877 posts)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 )