I spoke to the chair of the Maricopa County Democratic Party on Friday; she was on her way home from a sham hearing on the effects of the Affordable Care Act. She had gone to bear witness to the debacle and decry it for what it was: political theater from the word go, with reprobate conspiracy farmer California GOP Representative Darrell Issa abusing the majority party's ability to conduct hearings. For this particular hearing, Issa hand-selected the most partisan of testimonies possible in order to drum up fear of the Affordable Care Act and hatred towards Democrats.
I applied to give my testimony and was denied. So instead, just yesterday, the Democratic Party held a press conference and I stood with my State Senator Katie Hobbs and spoke in defense of the law. I shared my own experience of being able to count the time to my ultimate demise in dollars and I explained how the law is so much more than a website, how there are problems with the law that we need to fix, and how we cannot move forward on any of it with one side apparently hell-bent on destruction.
