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City health insurer Kaiser Permanente paid Baltimore Mayor Pugh $114,000...
Baltimore Sun ^ | 1 Apr 2019 | Kevin Rector, Talia Richman et al

Posted on 04/01/2019 4:41:34 PM PDT by Rummyfan

Health provider Kaiser Permanente paid Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh more than $100,000 to buy about 20,000 copies of her “Healthy Holly” children’s books during a period when the company was seeking a lucrative contract to provide health benefits to city employees.

Kaiser confirmed Monday to The Baltimore Sun that it paid approximately $114,000 for the books in multiple orders from 2015 to 2018.

Pugh, a Democrat, became mayor in December 2016. In September 2017, the city’s spending board, which Pugh sits on and controls, awarded the Kaiser Foundation Health Plan of the Mid-Atlantic States Inc. a $48 million contract to provide health insurance to city employees from 2018 through 2020, with options to renew. Pugh does not appear to have abstained from voting on the contract.

Pugh on Monday announced she would take a leave of absence for health reasons, in a statement she released after The Sun reported Kaiser’s payments to her.

Kaiser issued a series of written statements to The Sun, acknowledging the book deal but saying it had nothing to do with the company’s business with the city — which it said began in 1986.

(Excerpt) Read more at baltimoresun.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Maryland
KEYWORDS: abortion; baltimore; catherinepugh; infanticide; kaiser; kaiserpermanente; maryland; medicareforall; obamacare; paytoplay

Mayor Catherine Pugh holds a press conference about her "Healthy Holly" books

Baltimore, city of corruption...

Today the mayor announced she was taking a leave of absence for health reasons.

1 posted on 04/01/2019 4:41:34 PM PDT by Rummyfan
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To: Rummyfan

That book thing is a great way for politicians to generate cash in a semi-concealed manner.

Didn’t Caliph Baraq make a lot of dough that way when he was in the Senate?


2 posted on 04/01/2019 4:43:27 PM PDT by nascarnation
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To: Rummyfan

Is there a single Democrat alive that is not a crook?


3 posted on 04/01/2019 4:44:34 PM PDT by devane617 (Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.~ George Orwell, 1984)
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Is there a single Democrat alive that is not a crook?

Well.... not in this town!

4 posted on 04/01/2019 4:46:33 PM PDT by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel.)
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To: nascarnation

Yes and Comey got his $10 million payoff that way too. What was McCabes payoff?


5 posted on 04/01/2019 4:46:34 PM PDT by McGavin999 (Border security without a wall is like having a Ring doorbell without a door)
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To: Rummyfan

“Today the mayor announced she was taking a leave of absence for health reasons.:

Appears those health reasons were trauma brought about by repeated and vicious pummeling from an ugly stick.


6 posted on 04/01/2019 4:47:44 PM PDT by traderrob6
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7 posted on 04/01/2019 4:50:52 PM PDT by nascarnation
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To: Rummyfan

Got to turn on the bright lights in all corners of City Hall and watch the cockroaches scratch for traction.


8 posted on 04/01/2019 4:51:09 PM PDT by VietVet876
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To: Rummyfan

If they’re not they’re not trying !


9 posted on 04/01/2019 4:55:40 PM PDT by Reily
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I just saw over the weekend where it was said Michelle Obama’s book has sold around 10 to 12 million copies. How? Exactly who is buying this book? Does Soros have a warehouse full of these things??????????


10 posted on 04/01/2019 5:01:39 PM PDT by Captain Peter Blood
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To: Rummyfan

Recalls Jim Wright’s book shenanigans.


11 posted on 04/01/2019 5:50:19 PM PDT by ChildOfThe60s (If you can remember the 60s........you weren't really there)
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To: Rummyfan

SOP in a banana republic.

Make no mistake, that is indeed what the USA has become.


12 posted on 04/01/2019 5:59:33 PM PDT by ChildOfThe60s (If you can remember the 60s........you weren't really there)
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Reflections of a Public Man, by Jim Wright, is still available used on Amazon.
13 posted on 04/01/2019 7:06:36 PM PDT by jimfree (My18 y/o granddaughter continues to have more quality exec experience than an 8 year Obama.)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
So, she goes on a leave of absence for health reasons? Sounds about right.

14 posted on 04/01/2019 7:41:32 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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ALL LIBs are lunatics. All should take extended leaves for extensive mental health treatment.


15 posted on 04/01/2019 9:51:42 PM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: Rummyfan; 100American; Abundy; Albion Wilde; AlwaysFree; AnnaSASsyFR; bayliving; BFM; Bigg Red; ...

Leave of absence for moral health reasons?

Maryland “Freak State” PING!


16 posted on 04/05/2019 8:27:23 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Modern feminism: ALL MEN BAD!!!)
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