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riversedge

(70,242 posts)
Thu Jul 7, 2022, 08:05 AM Jul 2022

After @StenyHoyer told my grandmother "healthcare isn't a human right" straight to her face in a to

I do not know if true that Hoyer said health care was not a human right, but I know lots of Dem leaders endorsed the anti-choice Dem in Texas




@CollinJFoster
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After @StenyHoyer
told my grandmother “healthcare isn’t a human right” straight to her face in a town hall AND he endorsed an anti-choice Democrat in Texas, my Mom said she’d never vote for him again. She chose @MeetMckayla
because civil rights are both our #1 priorities.


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This is the bio of McKayla on twitter:


Mckayla Wilkes for Congress
@MeetMckayla
Primary challenger to Steny Hoyer in MD-05. Unapologetic progressive fighting for some damn change. Founder @SchoolsNotJails
. She/her.
Waldorf, MDmckaylawilkes.comJoined March 2019




And an ad. [I know nothing of this race}


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After @StenyHoyer told my grandmother "healthcare isn't a human right" straight to her face in a to (Original Post) riversedge Jul 2022 OP
I still remember back in 2006 gab13by13 Jul 2022 #1
Steny Hoyer is way to the left of John Martha bottomofthehill Jul 2022 #5
WOW . .. Lovie777 Jul 2022 #2
Indeed it is. N/T lapucelle Jul 2022 #4
Healthcare as a human right is a core Democratic Party value. This has been part of our platform lapucelle Jul 2022 #3

gab13by13

(21,360 posts)
1. I still remember back in 2006
Thu Jul 7, 2022, 08:21 AM
Jul 2022

when Jack Murtha was running against Steny Hoyer to be House Majority Leader. Pelosi endorsed Jack Murtha, mainly because he was a former marine veteran who had changed the narrative on the Iraq war, he wanted our troops out. The House voted for Steny, the right wing MSM had gone after Murtha, the right wanted no part of him.

As it turns out they killed Murtha, nicked an artery during a routine gall bladder operation, we lost Murtha's anti-war voice.

bottomofthehill

(8,334 posts)
5. Steny Hoyer is way to the left of John Martha
Thu Jul 7, 2022, 09:28 AM
Jul 2022

Couple things, John Murta was basically Joe Manchin. Pro gun, pro life, pro defense spending, the list goes on. He was one of the very few democrats who could hold the seat he held though thus I would have voted for him if I lived in his district and went to volunteer for his last campaign against Russell when he looked like he could be in trouble.

That said, Steny was so far to the left of Mr Murtha you could hardly see him. Steny beat him by well over 50 votes and beat him among progressives, the CBC, Hispanics, the largest part of vote block that Murtha has were the close to 50 that voted against Speaker Pelosi ( the heath bar crowd) and the PA delegation.

Also, no artery was nicked, he died of a post surgical infection. It was very sad and unexpected. He went in for a gallbladder surgery.

lapucelle

(18,276 posts)
3. Healthcare as a human right is a core Democratic Party value. This has been part of our platform
Thu Jul 7, 2022, 09:02 AM
Jul 2022

for several years.

I'm sure that Steny Hoyer knows that healthcare as a human right is in the Democratic Party platform. Why and in what context would Hoyer say what the tweeter claims he said, and how does such a tale find its way here?

Self-described socialist Collin J. Forster needs to do his homework.

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