Star-Telegram Endorses Fisher, then
Torpedoes him!
By
James Scott Trimm
The liberal rag known as the Fort Worth
Star-Telegram (or as some say, the Startlegram), a paper that endorsed Obama,
has now endorsed Scott Fisher. However
having endorsed him, they immediately turned around and unwittingly torpedoed
their own endorsee.
Last week Empower Texans published
documents which they have uncovered showing that at the very same time
Stickland was fighting to keep Obamacare out of Texas, Scott Fisher (serving as
“past board chair”) of Taxpayer funded JPS Health Network, was fighting to
bring Obamacare to Texas.
Fisher responded to the claim quickly and
defensively claiming:
This claim is a total fabrication! I am a
long-time conservative Republican and have opposed Obama and Obamacare from its
inception. Empower Texans failed to check the facts, and facts are pesky
things! A resolution was presented to the JPS Board of Managers to encourage
the Texas Legislature to call for Medicaid expansion in Texas. I totally
opposed the resolution, introduced an anti-Obamacare resolution and that
resolution was the "revised resolution" that passed unanimously.
However Fisher refused to produce the
actual resolution. Earlier this week
Empower Texans obtained and published Fisher’s actual revised resolution, which
Fisher himself had refused to present.
It turns out that the supposedly
“anti-Obamacare resolution” asks the state "...to seek all possible
options to adequately fund uncompensated and uninsured care for indigent
Texans..." and opens by stating "Whereas, the Affordable Care Act
[Obamacare] would add more that a million Texans living near or below the
poverty line to Medicaid coverage... "
This is NOT an anti-Obamacare resolution by any definition of the terms!
Just today Fisher was asked by a voter on
his own Facebook page “Why do they continue to say you pushed for it [Medicaid
Expansion via Obamacare]? This is very confusing to the average voter.”
Fisher dug in his heals insisting “Because
TRUTH does not matter to them! Tell a lie, tell it often, and hope it
sticks...total desperation, "Hail Mary" pass.”
But the facts are the facts, and the Star-Telegram article did not try to deny the documented truth that Fisher in fact
voted for this resolution and they did not try to deny that the resolution
called for an Expansion of Medicaid.
Instead the Star-Telegram engaged in a defense of Fisher’s support for
Obamacare Expanded Medicaid, saying:
Fisher is dogged by a 2013 hospital board
resolution asking the Legislature for more money to fund indigent care, listing
as one “possible option” to include more Texans in federal Medicaid.
It is reasonable for a county hospital
trustee to ask the Legislature for more money for indigent care, particularly
when many patients come from other counties that never contribute a dime.
Now it is no surprise that the liberal
Star-Telegram finds it reasonable for Fisher as a county hospital trustee to
ask the state to expand Medicaid through Obamacare, but the problem is that Fisher
is not trying to claim that his vote was justified, instead he has lied
repeatedly insisting that the resolution was not only not asking for Expanded
Medicaid through Obamacare, but was actually an anti-Obamacare resolution!
The Star-Telegram has just torpedoed their
own endorsee by exposing him as a liar, as well as exposing his support for
Obamacare expansion in Texas (which he has been trying so hard to hide)!
The fact is that District 92 voters do not
support the expansion of Obamacare in Texas!
Fisher knows this is true, which is why he has lied about his support for
Obamacare.
Fisher has a history of voting to support
Obamacare, and his largest single contributor has been the pro-Obamacare PAC of
the Texas Medical Association, TEXPAC.
Fisher supports Obamacare, TexPac knows he
supports it, and the Star-Telegram knows he supports it, he just does not want
District 92 voters to know he supports Obamacare and so he has been willing to
say anything to get elected!
Jonathan Stickland is the true
conservative, do not be fooled by the outright lies of his challenger!
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