No surprise here
Many families do not re-enroll every six months, which drops children from coverage. Dewhurst has said most Texans don’t have much sympathy “for someone that can’t fill out a two-page application every six months.”The Democrat-supported Lone Star Project in Washington reported this week that Dewhurst failed to file necessary forms at least six times in recent years for companies that he owned or controlled.
“It’s certainly an important thing for the leader of the Texas Senate to be as punctual as the poor people that he expects to be punctual,” Collins said. “And, of course, he’s probably got several lawyers who can do this for him, whereas the poor people of Texas have to do this all by themselves. It’s a shame. He’s out of touch.”
Meeting later with reporters, Dewhurst said he would not respond “to any political attack in this forum. If folks want to attack me politically, they can wait until 2010” when he is expected to run for governor.
Interesting statement. We can wait until 2010. What that really means is I don’t have an answer but since you have brought it to my attention I will have fixed this by 2010 so that I don’t look like the hypocrite I am. No real surprise here.
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