Scalise quits Speaker race. Mary Lou Retton & healthcare. Al Sharpton exposes MSM by mistake.
Scalise jumped out of the Speaker race as the GOP civil war expanded. Our predatory healthcare system has taken down Mary Lou Retton, a millionaire. Al Sharpton exposes inside-the-game secret in media
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Mary Lou Retton Crowdfunded Her Medical Debt, Like Many Thousands of Others: But unlike the Olympic gymnast, most people don’t raise enough money to cover their costs. When Mary Lou Retton, the decorated Olympic gymnast, accrued medical debt from a lengthy hospital stay, her family did what countless Americans have done before them: turned to crowdfunding to cover the bills. On Tuesday, Ms. Retton’s daughter started a fund-raising campaign on social media for her mother, who she said was hospitalized with a rare pneumonia. “We ask that if you could help in any way, that 1) you PRAY! and 2) if you could help us with finances for the hospital bill,” McKenna Kelley, Ms. Retton’s daughter, wrote in a post on Spotfund, a crowdfunding platform similar to GoFundMe. [More]
Steve Scalise, 'David Duke Without the Baggage,' Drops Out of House Speaker Race: "I will vote for Leader Jeffries and continue my work building bridges between marginalized communities to dismantle the systems of white supremacy enabling violence against our communities," said Rep. Summer Lee. Louisiana GOP Congressman Steve Scalise—infamously accused of once calling himself "David Duke without the baggage," referring to a former Ku Klux Klan grand wizard—on Thursday night dropped his bid to become the next speaker of the U.S House of Representatives. "It's been quite a journey, and there's still a long way to go. I just shared with my colleagues that I'm withdrawing my name as a candidate for the speaker designee," Scalise told reporters, acknowledging divisions within his conference. [More]
Al Sharpton outed that some had access to the higher-ups in the network to shape the message: I am unsure if Al Sharpton had a tongue slip, but he pointed out that the CEO of the ADL got a private hearing on messaging with higher-ups at the network. Is this a danger for truthful news? [More]
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