Reply #114: If he had voted for that health bill he would have been defeated [View All]

I'm from Biloxi. Let me tell you a little something here. We absolutely hate insurance companies. Now, we don't begrudge the agents for doing their jobs. We do begrudge the companies himself who welched out on hundreds of thousands of policies in the 3 coastal counties.


If Gene Taylor had voted for that bill an ad would have gone up saying "Gene Taylor says he stands up to insurance companies but yesterday he voted for a bill that would force you to buy insurance or pay a fine or go to jail." The result would have been that he could have very well drawn a viable opponent who would have beat him over the head with it.

And I oppose that bill too as do more rank-and-file Democrats than you realize. We're supposed to be the party that fights corporations, not the party that gives them captive markets.