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September 25, 2008 - 6:49am
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Garland, Carney 'lobbyists disguised as candidates,' says GOP state House ad
By Justin Miller, PolitickerOH.com ReporterThe Ohio House Republican Campaign Caucus has begun airing its first television ads in the battle to keep the state House.
This ad attacks Democratic candidates for two districts in suburban Columbus: attorney John Carney and Ohio Physical Therapists Association Director Nancy Garland.
Garland was the treasurer for OPTA's political action committee and lobbied as a government-affairs director for the American Physical Therapy Assocation in Washington, D.C.
Carney is a health care attorney.
UPDATE: Garland campaign director Liz Brown said in a statement yesterday that Garland's lobbying work has benefited patients and health-care providers by helping pass Medicare Direct Access legislation and her attempt to pass a Patients' Bill of Rights in Congress.
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Is this all we can expect
Is this all we can expect from the Republicans this year? More of the same old politics? Trying to scare people with wolves won't fix health care.
All we can expect???
The dems really blew it this time. They had a great candidate in Bev Campbell. They didn't support support her and she still nearly took it home for them.
Yet this time they threw Campbell under the bus for the ultimate insider - a lifetime lobbyist for the health care industry. Do you really expect the uninsured to be at the top of Garland's priority list? Garland and those like her are a huge part of the problem.
I had hoped that the dems had changed, but this race truly is "more of the same."
At least Jim McGregor appears to be conscience driven.
Nancy is for affordable
Nancy is for affordable heathcare for everyone. She has been an effective advocate for patients and insuring that healthcare dollars are utilized effectively in securing the heathcare that patients need instead of the insurance companies that keep 1/3 of every healthcare dollar for administative expenses. Even Jim McGregor voted for the direct access bill that she built coalitions to pass. We need an effective legislator that can work with all parties to get needed reforms passed.
Your criticism of Garland
Is not deserved. Isn't that what a lawyer does, defend clients???
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That's Carney, not Garland.
That's Carney, not Garland. The criticism of Garland is deserved because it's all truth, she was a lobbyist and helped collect 1.3 million for her efforts. I don't see how that's a stretch or fabrication of the truth in anyway.
Clearly, you don't know what
Clearly, you don't know what you're talking about. Bev Campbell got "thrown under the bus" because she angered the entire Democratic establishment. That Campbell almost beat McGregor was a testament to his weakness, not her strength. Nancy Garland has worked for optometrists and physical therapists, who have consistently had to fight for fairness in reimbursements by insurance companies and by Medicare/Medicaid. She understands what it means to be on the outside looking in when decisions are made. She will work harder for the uninsured than Bev Campbell ever would because Campbell's focus was education.
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