Mark Small

Today I received an e-mail from Nurse Beth Henderson, one of my opponents in the June 2 primary for the GOP nomination for U.S. House in Indiana’s 5th Congressional District. She bemoans other candidates spending $$$$$. 2/14

Nurse Beth has some pretty slick ads. She also has some pretty slick, monied interest groups to back her: NRA and anti-choice groups. She points to her experience in health care and ag. Oh, and she loves trump. 3/14

None - as in zip, zilch, nada, zero, nothing there - of her policy positions would indicate she aims to rid politics of $$$$$. NRA doesn’t pass out $$$$$ so the recipient can question laws NRA has shoved through at metaphorical gunpoint. 4/14

On her website she has a photo (one should infer of her) shooting a handgun with a caption: “shall not be infringed is not a suggestion.” That’s a threat that underlies so much pro-gun propaganda. She brags about her NRA rating. 5/14

“Nurse Beth” also is “pro-life.” I am sick of Republicans who claim to be “pro-life” yet support an incompetent under whose administration 100,000, people have died. The Federal government had plans on how to address pandemics. 6/14

Odd: the spell check program in the computer doesn’t recognize a plural form of “pandemic.” It must have been written before 1/20/2017, when the current occupant of the Oval Office had all the plans scrapped. 7/14

As to health care, Nurse Beth seems to toe the “Call it ‘socialism’ & scare everybody” line. I’ve said repeatedly: if “socialized” health care is bad, then USA’s health care system should #1, not #37 in the World, as a March, 2019, paper, for quality of health care notes. 8/14

If socialized medicine is bad, few, if any, countries, ranked ahead of us, should be systems in which socialized medicine is a large component of, or comprises, the entire system. Only 2 of the 36 countries ahead of us DO NOT have socialized medicine. 9/14