Posts tagged ‘Randy Hultgren’
by Ellen McClennan, posted on Saturday, August 24th, 2013 at 11:57 am
For a politician claiming to value fiscal responsibility, 14th Congressional Representative Randy Hultgren certainly has wasted a lot of our money.
Hultgren has voted with the rest of his Tea Party coalition to repeal Obamacare 40 times. According to a recent CBS study, each Republican vote to repeal costs all of us American taxpayers $1.45 million—for a total of about $58 million.
Question: Why would Hultgren be so focused on wasting our money to repeal a law voted in by Congress and upheld by the Supreme Court?
Answer: Hultgren’s largest campaign donors come from the Securities and Investment (i.e. Insurance) industry. Check it out at OpenSecrets.org. Hultgren is protecting Insurance CEO’s paychecks at the same time he is attempting to take insurance coverage away from those who need it and billing American taxpayers millions for his efforts.
Question: So what’s so bad about Obamacare that the financial services industry wants to repeal it? After all, Obamacare just delivered millions more people into their coffers.
Answer: Obamacare restricts the profit insurance companies can make.
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Tags: 2014 elections, Aetna, Angela Braly, Cigna, David Cordani, executive compensation, Health Care Service Corp, Humana, IL-14, Illinois, insurance industry, Mark Bertoline, Michael McCallister, Obamacare, Patricia Hemingway Hall, Randy Hultgren, Stephen Hemsley, U. S. House, United Health Group, Wellpoint
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by jstupec, posted on Saturday, August 24th, 2013 at 7:41 am
I attended the Anderson Announcement:
For the past two years we in the IL14 congressional district have had a do-nothing Republican Tea Partier as our representative in the US Congress. Due to gerrymandering, the district stretches from almost the Wisconsin border south to Yorkville, Il. On the east there’s the Fox River and the district bulges to the west occasionally but it’s a difficult district to campaign in because of the time consuming distances necessary to meet as many constituents as possible. In the 2012 election, Dennis Anderson came from out of nowhere to take 41% of the vote from a well-funded Republican (Randy Hultgren). Anyone who has been watching this useless House of Representatives knows exactly what his voting record is. This country must change the balance of power in the House and we have a truly superb candidate that will work hard for District 14 and, ultimately, all of the people of America.
I could try to paraphrase Dennis’ very impressive biography and where he stands on issues but that wouldn’t do him justice so I’m going to take the easy way out and let you read the good news. The speech was delivered on August 18th, 2013.
To donate, go to the Anderson Facebook page at www.facebook.com/dennisanderson.IL14 and click the ActBlue (AB) button or email the campaign at andersonforcongress14@gmail.com. You know the drill, volunteering and donations to help him fight for us. Dennis gives us the chance to change Congress.
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Tags: 2014 elections, Dennis Anderson, IL-14, Illinois, Randy Hultgren, U. S. House
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by Ellen McClennan, posted on Sunday, July 8th, 2012 at 7:00 am
It was early in the morning and I was late for an appointment. But it was my brother calling, so I answered my cell.
“Hey Ellen,” he said, “You know that piece you wrote about Hultgren being unconcerned about all those people who don’t have medical insurance?”
“Well, yeah,” I said. “The one where the man asked Hultgren why he opted to take federal health insurance for himself and his family, but didn’t want the rest of us to have it?”
“Yeah, that one,” he responded. “I sent that piece to my neighbor who voted for Hultgren because he is a Christian. I thought she would see this as the betrayal of Christian morals it actually is.”
“But she didn’t see it that way, Ellen. I don’t get it,” he continued. “Didn’t we learn the Golden Rule? You know, do onto others as you would have them do onto you?”
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Tags: 2012 elections, Affordable Care Act, campaign contributions, health care, IL-14, insurance, Obamacare, Randy Hultgren, religion, Religious Right, Republicans
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by Ellen McClennan, posted on Thursday, June 28th, 2012 at 7:01 am
“I have a job and I have health insurance,” Representative Hultgren (R IL-14) said, and then paused for a moment proudly emphasizing the Republican spin talking point that when one has a job, one automatically has health insurance. It’s as if life is that simple. If you work, the spin goes, you have insurance. He was attempting to say that if we have jobs, we don’t need a national health insurance plan. We don’t need “Obamacare.”
The subtle part of this ‘argument’ is that not only is it flawed logically, it blames the victim. If you don’t have insurance, it’s because you don’t have a job. A job will furnish good insurance. And if you don’t have a job, it’s because you’re either not looking, or—to serve the Republican spin even further—it’s because Obama won’t do what the Republicans want so people can have jobs. So therefore, we can all blame Obama.
But this time his audience at the Oswego Town Hall meeting was not buying it as I noticed they have in the past. No one applauded. No one said, “Yeah!” There was silence as Hultgren paused and looked around for support he did not get.
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Tags: 2012 elections, Affordable Care Act, David Edelman, Dennis Anderson, health insurance, IL-14, Illinois, Kendall County, Obamacare, Oswego IL, Randy Hultgren, Town Hall Meeting
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by Ellen McClennan, posted on Thursday, June 28th, 2012 at 7:00 am
Representative Randy Hultgren (R IL-14) showed typical Republican spin at his Oswego Town Hall meeting recently. When asked direct questions regarding taxes, healthcare, social security, and Citizens United, he was long on spin, wrong on facts, and empty of solutions.
One frustrated attendant who tried to get a direct answer on healthcare, commented after the meeting that Hultgren “…seemed detached and unfeeling. His voice was just so syrupy and sweet he appeared unbelievable and unconcerned.”
His comments on Social Security were a surprise but shouldn’t have been, given the Republican Party’s relationship to corporate money and financial companies wanting to gamble with social security investment money.
“I’m not planning on Social Security,” Hultgren said. “Most people my age aren’t planning on Social Security.”
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Tags: campaign contributions, Citizens United, David Edelman, Dennis Anderson, healthcare, IL-14, Illinois, Kendall County, Oswego IL, Randy Hultgren, Social security, taxes, Town Hall Meeting, U. S. Supreme Court
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by n0madic, posted on Monday, April 23rd, 2012 at 7:00 am
Democratic primary
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Tags: 2012 elections, campaign ads, Dennis Anderson, Frank McClatchey, IL-14, Illinois, Jonathan Farnick, Randy Hultgren, The Campaign Archive, U. S. House
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by n0madic, posted on Tuesday, August 30th, 2011 at 7:12 am
Originally posted at robynsward’s YouTube Channel.
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Tags: IL-14, Illinois, Kendall County, Randy Hultgren, U. S. House, Yorkville IL
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by Downtowner, posted on Friday, August 5th, 2011 at 9:00 pm
So this morning’s job report was better than expected, with the economy adding 117,000 jobs. So that’s good, right? Well, not really. More like mediocre. Among other things, we get to write off people who are so discouraged they just stopped looking, meaning there were actually less people working in July than in June. So that’s the mediocre.
The Bad is the downgrading of the country’s credit rating, courtesy of S&P. As a coworker of mine noted last week, when this was only a possibility, “If you’ve seen the movie Inside Job you’d kind of have to take any rating coming out of S&P with a grain of salt – okay maybe a truckload of salt – becuase how did those people put it when they were in the Congressional hearings? They said something like ‘It’s not like those ratings mean anything, it’s more like’…what’s the word I’m looking for here?”
“You mean ‘It’s more like they’re guidelines?'” I asked”
“Exactly!” she said. “Like Pirates of the Caribbean, which is fitting, since they are real, live 21st Century Pirates.”
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Tags: Bureau of Labor Statistics, Debt Ceiling Hostage Crisis, depression, Double Dip Recession, economy, Great Recession, Idiots, Illinois Economic Terrorists, Inside Job, Joe Walsh, Pirates of the Carribean, Randy Hultgren, recession, S&P, stock market, Tea Party
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by Downtowner, posted on Wednesday, August 3rd, 2011 at 12:26 pm
Really, I can’t thank those Tea Partiers enough for making all the right moves to ensure that we continue to push the Great Recession well along the way toward becoming the Greatest Depression.
Today we’ve learned that in the wake of the Debt Ceiling Deal of Doom being signed, sealed and delivered, the stock market continues an alarming slide and the Chinese have downgraded our credit rating. A special shout out to Enabler in Chief Barack Obama, for his exquisitly choreographed moves in response to the Economic Terrorists in Congress. But I want to reserve my most special shout out of all for local Illinois Economic Terrorists Randy Hultgren and Joe Walsh, because it’s just not easy for two freshmen congresscritters-turned-economic-terrorists to accomplish so much in such a short time. Helluva Job!
Damn. I just used the “j” word didn’t I? Sorry, so sorry. Forgot. We are all supposed to be pretending that there is no problem with one in ten Americans being unemployed by obsessively focusing on a deficit that could be much better handled if we just worked on getting them jobs. Damn. Did it again didn’t I?
Well, will just have to hope that Congress is so busy right now that they failed to notice someone worried about jobs. I think it’s more likely than not.
Tags: Barack Obama, Chinese, CNN, debt ceiling, depression, Economic Terrorists, economy, FAA, Great Recession, Greatest Depression, IL-14, Illinois, Illinois Economic Terrorists, jobs, Joe Walsh, kabuki, Matt Taibbi, Randy Hultgren, recession, stock market, Tea Party, U. S. credit rating, unemployment
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by Downtowner, posted on Tuesday, August 2nd, 2011 at 5:21 pm
But they are not really. I can tell you that in person Hultgren is very pleasant and Walsh is downright scary.
Beyond that, though, politically they are pretty much…okay, you got me, the same guy. For instance, yesterday they both voted against the Deal O Doom that raised the debt ceiling limit today. Not that I mind their no votes, I just mind that they are representative of the short-sighted Tea Partying mentality that got us into this invent-a-crisis in the first place.
Why worry about what these two do? Well, I feel compelled to do so on a personal level, as I currently live in the new IL-14 (though I could cross the street to borrow a cup of sugar and be in another district, and drive five minutes in the other direction and be in a third) so I can look forward to one or the other of these Economic Terrorists being my congresscritter in the near future. Well, one of them already is, but the main point is they are both prominent Illinois Economic Terrorists, hell-bent on destroying the middle class, our country, and certainly my chances of ever getting health care in America.
And there is slim to no chance that anyone in this district will run against whichever of them ends up the Chosen Annointed Economic Terrorist in Chief of the IL-14 Tea Party and thus try to stop them from committing future acts of economic terrorism on my behalf.
It’s just depressing.
Tags: 2012 elections, Debt Ceiling Crisis, Economic Terrorists, IL-14, Illinois, Illinois Economic Terrorists, Joe Walsh, Randy Hultgren, Tea Party, U. S. House
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