Health care magnate Kent Thiry wants to fix democracy -- starting in Colorado
Former DaVita CEO has given at least $5.9 million to Colorado ballot measures since 2011
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By Rae Ellen Bichell, Kaiser Health News
In the final weeks before the Nov. 3 election, supporters of a down-in-the-weeds effort to overturn a tax law in Colorado received a cascade of big checks, for a grand total of more than $2 million.
All came from Kent Thiry, the former CEO of DaVita, one of the largest kidney care companies in the country. This was not the first time he donated big to a ballot initiative aimed at tweaking the nitty-gritty details of how Colorado functions. Nor will it be the last.
Thiry has given at least $5.9 million to Colorado ballot measures since 2011 — and all of them won, according to a KHN review of Colorado campaign finance data. According to data from the National Institute on Money in Politics, Thiry’s donations to ballot measures in that state are second only to those of billionaire Pat Stryker, an heiress whose grandfather founded a medical technology company. Campaign finance records show that before that, he gave to ballot issue committees in California, where he used to live, dating to at least 2007.
It’s the same playbook his former company has successfully used in California. As KHN has reported, in 2018 DaVita was among several companies to break an industry record in campaign spending for a ballot measure by any one side in California. This year, the industry came close to breaking that record to defeat a measure that would have further regulated dialysis clinics and that DaVita said would have limited access to care.
https://www.denverpost.com/2020/12/31/kent-thiry-colorado-political-contributions/
I have recommendation(s) that you can use since said you are open for ones, in fact two of them why don't you take a ballot measure to the Colorado Legislature, that when people get laid off for an illness, that they get $2000.00 a month to live on and have it taken from fat cat's that don't pay anything in taxes................what do you think of this idea and what John Trudell said about the corporates state
I am not looking to overthrow the American government, the corporate state already has, John Trudell- Santee Dakota activist, artist, and poet (1946-2015)...so what side of the fence are you on............for starters 
