{"id":190604,"date":"2009-11-10T12:10:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-10T17:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/11\/10\/i-get-emails-from-politicos-raising-funds\/"},"modified":"2009-11-10T12:10:00","modified_gmt":"2009-11-10T17:10:00","slug":"i-get-emails-from-politicos-raising-funds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/11\/10\/i-get-emails-from-politicos-raising-funds\/","title":{"rendered":"I Get Emails from Politicos Raising Funds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this case Frank Kratovil, who was looking for both money and sweat equity.<\/p>\n<p>My reply:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(102, 0, 0);\"><p>I live in Owings Mills, very close to your district, and might be inclined to contribute or volunteer for efforts in Baltimore County, except for the vote on Healthcare Reform.<\/p>\n<p>First, I do not believe that this would be a good use of my time.  As Harry S Truman said, &#8220;Given the choice between a Republican and someone who acts like a Republican, people will vote for the real Republican all the time,&#8221; and I believe that the voters of MD-1 will choose the real Republican regardless of what I do.<\/p>\n<p>Secondly, on a more personal level, I am self-employed, and use MHIP for my insurance, because there is no other insurance available due to my wife&#8217;s pre-existing conditions, and I have seen cuts in coverage and a rate hike in excess of 50% just this year.<\/p>\n<p>Third, anyone who cites the <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Washington Post<\/span> editorial board on healthcare <span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\">[he linked to some <\/span><span style=\"font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\">WaPo <\/span><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\">Op\/Eds]<\/span>, where they have consistently and deliberately got the facts wrong, is being either clueless or disengenuous.<\/p>\n<p>So long, and thanks for all the fish.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<br \/>Matthew G. Saroff<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And yes, I <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">did<\/span> reference <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Hitchhikers<\/span>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this case Frank Kratovil, who was looking for both money and sweat equity. My reply: I live in Owings Mills, very close to your district, and might be inclined to contribute or volunteer for efforts in Baltimore County, except for the vote on Healthcare Reform. First, I do not believe that this would be &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1094,998,1000,1046],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-190604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-finance","category-congress","category-elections","category-healthcare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190604"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190604\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}