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TexasTowelie

(116,508 posts)
Fri Nov 24, 2017, 11:39 AM Nov 2017

Hatch spent his career sticking up for the little guy? No, but the Dem senator he defeated sure did

I questioned in an earlier column the veracity of Sen. Orrin Hatch’s assertion — during his dust-up with Ohio Democratic Sen. Sherrod Brown — that he has spent his career sticking up for the little guy.

I noted that Hatch co-sponsored with Democratic icon Ted Kennedy the Children’s Health Insurance Program, which provides low-cost health coverage to needy youngsters, and his work with former Democratic Rep. Henry Waxman to make affordable prescription drugs more accessible to seniors.

But he has spent much of his time protecting the profit margins of large pharmaceutical companies, and they have rewarded his efforts with hundreds of thousands of dollars in campaign contributions.

So let’s take a look at a another Utah senator’s passion for protecting the little guy. That would be the late Frank E. “Ted” Moss, the three-term senator whom Hatch defeated in 1976.

Read more: http://www.sltrib.com/news/politics/2017/11/24/hatch-spent-his-career-sticking-up-for-the-little-guy-no-but-the-dem-senator-he-defeated-sure-did/

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Hatch spent his career sticking up for the little guy? No, but the Dem senator he defeated sure did (Original Post) TexasTowelie Nov 2017 OP
Orrin Hatch is just a mormon mouthpiece. Raster Nov 2017 #1
+++++ pangaia Nov 2017 #2
Hey Man, Wellstone ruled Nov 2017 #3

Raster

(20,999 posts)
1. Orrin Hatch is just a mormon mouthpiece.
Fri Nov 24, 2017, 11:44 AM
Nov 2017

And before someone tries to get all religiousity high and mighty... fuck you. Born and raised in the church. Gay man. Liberal. I know of that which I speak.

 

Wellstone ruled

(34,661 posts)
3. Hey Man,
Fri Nov 24, 2017, 12:25 PM
Nov 2017

thanks for the Truth Post. Know Orin Hatch's moves first hand. He could give a rat's ass about anyone outside the Priesthood.

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