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D.C. insurance commissioner fired a day after questioning Obamacare fix
The Washington Post ^ | November 16, 2013 | Aaron C. Davis and Mike DeBonis

Posted on 11/16/2013 6:57:28 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

A day after he questioned President Obama’s decision to unwind a major tenet of the health-care law and said the nation’s capital might not go along, D.C. insurance commissioner William P. White was fired.

White was called into a meeting Friday afternoon with one of Mayor Vincent C. Gray’s (D) top deputies and told that the mayor “wants to go in a different direction,” White told The Washington Post on Saturday.

White said the mayoral deputy never said that he was being asked to leave because of his Thursday statement on health care. But he said the timing was hard to ignore. Roughly 24 hours later, White said, he was “basically being told, ‘Thanks, but no thanks.’ ”(continued)

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; US: District of Columbia
KEYWORDS: districtofcolumbia; fired; insurance; obama; obamacare; purges; pushback
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The Chicago Way.
1 posted on 11/16/2013 6:57:28 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Yuk.

Depending on government can be very very threatening


2 posted on 11/16/2013 6:58:58 PM PST by stanne
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To: stanne

So much for Diversity.


3 posted on 11/16/2013 7:00:48 PM PST by Paladin2
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To: Nachum

Ping.


4 posted on 11/16/2013 7:02:04 PM PST by Jet Jaguar
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Ain’t police states a b*tch? I never dreamed it would ever happen here.


5 posted on 11/16/2013 7:02:23 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (Repeal ObamaScam NOW!!!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Off to the labor camp with this counter revolutionary running dog lackey of the Bourgeoisie!


6 posted on 11/16/2013 7:02:23 PM PST by dainbramaged (Joe McCarthy was right.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

He should be gratefull.

Somebody could have given him a heart attack.


7 posted on 11/16/2013 7:02:34 PM PST by maine yankee (I got my Governor at 'Marden's')
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Valerie Jarrett strikes again.


8 posted on 11/16/2013 7:04:32 PM PST by zot
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Let me take a wild, wild guess; the fired employee is a Caucasian man, maybe even known to be a Christian. The president has no problem firing individuals who fit that description, he’ll even do it publicly if he feels like it.
I could be wrong. Regardless of race, this firing shows insecurity and an intolerance for differing points of view.


9 posted on 11/16/2013 7:06:27 PM PST by lee martell
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

It most certainly is “THE Chicago way”.


10 posted on 11/16/2013 7:06:40 PM PST by rockinqsranch (Dems, Libs, Socialists, call 'em what you will. They ALL have fairies livin' in their trees.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

He’s lucky he didn’t get Fosterized.


11 posted on 11/16/2013 7:07:01 PM PST by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
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To: lee martell

“Let me take a wild, wild guess”

Nope, he is African American. He was recently given a new nick name by DC Dems, Uncle Tom.


12 posted on 11/16/2013 7:08:11 PM PST by DAC21
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

He failed to kiss the King’s ring. That is a no no in the O kingdom.


13 posted on 11/16/2013 7:09:29 PM PST by dforest
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
botched rollout of the Affordable Care Act: millions of unexpected cancellations of insurance plans

Hardly unexpected.

Obama had promised that Americans who liked their insurance plans would be able to keep them. When that turned out to not be the case, Obama apologized last week.

I must've missed that.

14 posted on 11/16/2013 7:09:39 PM PST by MUDDOG
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To: lee martell
the fired employee is a Caucasian man, maybe even known to be a Christian.

Actually, a lot of these commissioners speaking out against Obama's move are Democrats.

They're mad because Obama's pronouncement is going to interfere with their exchanges while they're trying to get as many paying customers as possible to implement socialism.

15 posted on 11/16/2013 7:10:10 PM PST by what's up
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To: rockinqsranch

Maybe he can now get some food stamps and unemployment.


16 posted on 11/16/2013 7:10:17 PM PST by dforest
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

He had the nerve to criticize Party Secretary! Off to the Gulag!


17 posted on 11/16/2013 7:12:02 PM PST by Fred Hayek (The Democratic Party is now the operational arm of the CPUSA)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

That is what a majot=rity of US Citizens think about Bummer.Why can’t we fire him TOMORROW!!!


18 posted on 11/16/2013 7:20:35 PM PST by MtnClimber (A utopia without freedom is just a fancy name for prison. - Dean Kalahar)
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To: lee martell

William White is black and is probably a regular Dem, but one with more common sense than the rest of the pack.

Obama is trying to make everything about race. This is not about race. Let’s not fall into his trap.


19 posted on 11/16/2013 7:23:53 PM PST by livius
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To: livius

You are correct. Resist We Much! to use a discarded quote.


20 posted on 11/16/2013 7:26:46 PM PST by lee martell
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