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RNC’S INSURANCE PLAN COVER’S ELECTIVE ABORTIONS
Poor Michael Steele. The Republican National Committee chairman is less than a year into his term and he just can’t seem to get things right.
First, Steele got into a very public spat with conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh. Then he agreed that President Barack Obama is “the magic negro” and told GQ magazine that women have a “right to choose abortion.”
Steele also launched as awful RNC website last month and just this week came under fire for saying that white Republicans are afraid of black people.
And now, this:
The Republican National Committee’s health insurance plan covers elective abortion – a procedure the party’s own platform calls “a fundamental assault on innocent human life.”
Federal Election Commission Records show the RNC purchases its insurance from Cigna. Two sales agents for the company said that the RNC’s policy covers elective abortion. [...]
According to several Cigna employees, the insurer offers its customers the opportunity to opt out of abortion coverage – and the RNC did not choose to opt out. [The Politico]
Oh boy.
Steele’s team said the coverage predates his chairmanship, but they obviously haven’t changed the plan or switched providers.
Ironically, Steele gave a speech in Michigan Thursday saying that it’s important that the federal government doesn’t pay for abortions.
Steele, of course, narrowly defeated former South Carolina GOP Chairman Katon Dawson for the RNC post. He was aided in that effort by Palmetto State political consultant Jim Dkye.
Dyke was paid nearly $60,000 to get Steele elected, and unfortunately for the Republican Party, he recorded a rare victory in that race. And yes, that’s the same Jim Dyke who apparently goes after opponents by doctoring Facebook screen shots.
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though I believe Steele has worn out his welcome, I seriously doubt that he takes a large interest in what type of health insurance plan the RNC offers its employees.
though I believe Steele has worn out his welcome, I seriously doubt that he takes a large interest in what type of health insurance plan the RNC offers its employees. I agree that this leaves the party with egg on its face, but to pin it on steele is just plain silly.
TOP 8 MOMENTS IN SLOW ZEBRA JIM DYKE’S STELLAR SC POLITICAL CONSULTING CAREER
7) Guiding Rudy Giuliani to stellar 6th place finish in ’08 SC Republican presidential primary (positive note: Jim Dyke saw to it that Giuliani finished ahead of Duncan Hunter, Tom Tancredo, John Cox, Hugh Cort and Cap Fendig)
6) Setting up SC Republican political consulting firm, then working against beloved SC Republican chairman Katon Dawson
5) Working against SC’s Katon Dawson to elect disastrous RNC chair Michael Steele
4) Failing to stop provision covering abortions in RNC insurance benefits when he was an RNC top dog in ‘04
3) Letting Gresham Barrett vote for Wall Street fatcat TARP bailout
2) Letting Gresham Barrett vote against Wall Street fatcat TARP bailout
1) Letting Gresham Barrett appear at TEA PARTY after flip-flopping on Wall Street fatcat TARP bailout
jim dyke can’t seriously expect to make friends in sc after trashing katon dawson
who cares about jim dyke?
Should women not be allowed the option of abortion in cases of rape or incest?
Are anti-abortionists willing to support the children born to the above women if they can’t or won’t, or adopt them?
What about kids born into poverty, to drug abusers, to teens, to abusers?
If this were a perfect world, and every unwanted child could be adopted, maybe I would hop on the anti-abortion train. However, they are the same folks against birth control or effective sex education.
Who cares about Katon Dawson?
Poor Michael Steele is backtracking and scrambling get again.
Good thing he has a dynamo coach!
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