GOP Leaders Warn Pro Sports Leagues Not To Promote Obamacare
Source: TPM
Senate Republican leaders have sent letters warning six professional sports leagues not to provide the Obama administration any assistance in promoting Obamacare.
The letters, dated June 27, warn the chiefs of the National Football League, Major League Baseball, National Basketball Association, National Hockey League, Professional Golf Association and NASCAR that partnering with the administration to publicize the benefits of the health care law would damage their reputations.
The letters come days after Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said she’s spoken with the NFL about potentially partnering to let people know the benefits of the Affordable Care Act ahead of the implementation of its major components. (She said there was no deal yet.) The Republican senators rattled off a slew of conservative arguments against the law, stressing polls that signal its unpopularity with the public.
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Democratic aides point out that it’s nothing new for political leaders to partner with private organizations on behalf of their constituents, citing as one example the 2007 partnership between Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick and the Boston Red Sox to promote Romneycare. McConnell and Cornyn argued in their letters that there were “key differences” between the two laws, observing that one was bipartisan and the other passed on a partisan vote.
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The GOP is pathetic.
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ACA is a LAW, not a bill.Though I know that fact just chaps their asses.
R you shitting me Mitch? We just had a test on the popularity of the ACA.
BTW, professional sports organizations *should* lose their anti-trust exemptions. And taxpayers should not be paying for those fancy stadiums, either.
What A bunch of Stupid Assholes.
They never say it directly, but it's heavily implied in almost everything R's say.
Apparently America became a shithole as soon as Obama won and began fixing the Republican destruction left by BushCo. 
Who the fuck do they think they are? 
That was very short lived as I recall. I wonder how the players are going to respond to this, hope they get the news, it is a very diverse group and many come very meager backgrounds. 
Do what the republicans tell them to and pay higher signing bonus's for the talented rich kids that can only afford good health care while in school. Or support Obamacare and pay lower signing bonus's for all those talented poor kids that would be able to afford health care and continue to play. Rich Kids Mommas and daddies know they will have to pay a premium if they want there kid to play for them. Poor kids just want to play and make a decent living, and would likely take less for signing.
The most unpopular Congress in history is going to lecture business owners on how to maintain their popularity? They. Just. Don't. Get. It.
- Not experts on windsprints? Not on tackling or on intercepting passes? They've spent their entire lives working toward a goal in professional sports and they're only experts on firearms? I always thought that was the NRA.
I'll just go ahead and Ignore you now and beat the holiday rush......
I do not recall many athletes for firearms anywhere outside of NASCAR. However I do know many athletes from very poor backgrounds. That can empathize with the the need for Obamacare. The GOP is really overstepping here I think. 
Murders [edit]
In the U.S., violence directed towards abortion providers has killed at least eight people, including four doctors, two clinic employees, a security guard, and a clinic escort.[8][9]
March 10, 1993: Dr. David Gunn of Pensacola, Florida was fatally shot during a protest. He had been the subject of wanted-style posters distributed by Operation Rescue in the summer of 1992. Michael F. Griffin was found guilty of Gunn's murder and was sentenced to life in prison.
July 29, 1994: Dr. John Britton and James Barrett, a clinic escort, were both shot to death outside another facility, the Ladies Center, in Pensacola. Rev. Paul Jennings Hill was charged with the killings. Hill received a death sentence and was executed on September 3, 2003. The clinic in Pensacola had been bombed before in 1984 and was also bombed subsequently in 2012.
December 30, 1994: Two receptionists, Shannon Lowney and Lee Ann Nichols, were killed in two clinic attacks in Brookline, Massachusetts. John Salvi was arrested and confessed to the killings. He died in prison and guards found his body under his bed with a plastic garbage bag tied around his head. Salvi had also confessed to a non-lethal attack in Norfolk, Virginia days before the Brookline killings.
January 29, 1998: Robert Sanderson, an off-duty police officer who worked as a security guard at an abortion clinic in Birmingham, Alabama, was killed when his workplace was bombed. Eric Robert Rudolph, who was also responsible for the 1996 Centennial Olympic Park bombing, was charged with the crime and received two life sentences as a result.
October 23, 1998: Dr. Barnett Slepian was shot to death with a high-powered rifle at his home in Amherst, New York.[10] His was the last in a series of similar shootings against providers in Canada and northern New York state which were all likely committed by James Kopp. Kopp was convicted of Slepian's murder after finally being apprehended in France in 2001.
May 31, 2009: Dr. George Tiller was shot and killed by Scott Roeder as Tiller served as an usher at church in Wichita, Kansas.[11]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-abortion_violence
