Childers and Nunnelee Both Sell Out Constituents To Insurance
Alan Nunnelee has come forward as a prominent Republican challenger to Travis Childers, the Democratic incumbent in the 1st congressional district in Mississippi. Among Nunnelee’s most prominent positions so far in the campaign: Opposition to health care reform.
Nunnelee explains that he is against Democratic plans to reform health care by creating a public option that would circumvent insurance company waste. “Government-run healthcare is not the answer,” Nunnelee says.
That position may not make sense for Americans who can’t afford the high costs of medical insurance offered by insurance company bureaucrats, but it makes perfect sense to Alan Nunnelee. That’s because Alan Nunnelee is the founder of Allied Funeral Associates Insurance Company. Even as Nunnelee serves as a Mississippi State Senator, he remains Vice President of the insurance company that elevated him to power.
Before Democratic supporters of incumbent Congressman Travis Childers cheer with glee at the exposure of Nunnelee as a corrupt, self-interested politician, they ought to take note that Childers has agreed to take the same position against health care reform as Alan Nunnelee. Nunnelee’s campaign brags about this, saying, “Nunnelee is pleased that Travis Childers, after several months of intense grassroots efforts and political pressure has finally committed to vote against the massive government takeover of healthcare”.
Why has Representative Childers conceded this campaign issue to Nunnelee? It could have less to do with Nunnelee than with the fact that, so far, insurance companies are among the top 5 industries contributing to the 2010 Childers re-election campaign. It seems that, in Mississippi’s 1st district race for Congress, insurance companies are playing both sides of the game. Whichever politician loses, the insurance companies win.
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