{"id":459294,"date":"2010-03-22T12:36:59","date_gmt":"2010-03-22T16:36:59","guid":{"rendered":"tag:blogs.courant.com,2010:\/capitol_watch\/\/9.74437"},"modified":"2010-03-22T12:46:05","modified_gmt":"2010-03-22T16:46:05","slug":"kevin-lembo-praises-health-care-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/459294","title":{"rendered":"Kevin Lembo praises health care vote"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lembo, the state&#8217;s health care advocate, said he was moved by last night&#8217;s vote in the House.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Perfect or not, this legislation finally gives hope to Americans who have suffered the financial and emotional stress of being without health insurance, and I look forward to meeting opponents on the campaign trail in the coming months,&#8221; Lembo said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If Republicans truly believe it is okay to deny coverage based on pre-existing medical conditions, health status and gender, that it is okay to set lifetime limits on coverage, and okay to drop coverage when it is needed most, I welcome that debate.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Lembo is exploring a run for lieutenant governor. In other Lembo news, he recently received the endorsement of the Gay &amp; Lesbian Victory Fund.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">&#8220;Kevin&#8217;s career demonstrates a deep commitment to public service and to making government work for everyone,&#8221; Victory Fund President and CEO Chuck Wolfe said in a statement announcing the endorsement.&nbsp;&#8220;His victory will be an affirmation of openness and honesty in politics, so we are proud to stand with him in this important and exciting campaign.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">If elected, Lembo would be among the highest-ranking gay elected officials in the U.S.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lembo, the state&#8217;s health care advocate, said he was moved by last night&#8217;s vote in the House. &#8220;Perfect or not, this legislation finally gives hope to Americans who have suffered the financial and emotional stress of being without health insurance, and I look forward to meeting opponents on the campaign trail in the coming months,&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4000,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-459294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4000"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=459294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459294\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=459294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=459294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=459294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}