Coloradans know it’s hard to get any face time with U.S. Sen. Cory Gardner (R-CO), who hasn’t held a single town-hall meeting this year. It’s certainly not for lack of trying, considering his constituents routinely show up at his office to try and make their voices heard, especially when it comes to incredibly important issues like health care.
Health Care
Cory Gardner: Nowhere Man
U.S. Sen. Cory Gardner refuses to defend the Republican health care plan to the people in Colorado he serves. I offer this spoof of Nowhere Man with apologies to the Beatles (for nonprofit educational purposes only).
Gardner helped strip from Obamacare a program to stabilize insurance markets but it’s now part of Senate healthcare bill
Republicans sabotaged Obamacare, in part, by stripping the law of funds to incentivize insurance companies to cover enrollees who were expensive to insure.
Doubt cast on Gardner’s explanation for skipping GOP meeting (with protesters outside)
U.S. Sen. Cory Gardner’s (R-CO) office says it erred in telling Steamboat Springs Republicans that a planned lunch meeting last Friday with Gardner was canceled due the expected presence of protesters, when, in fact, the actual reason for the cancellation, according to Gardner’s office, was to “accommodate” a meeting with Democratic Routt County Commissioner Doug Monger.
In his own words: Gardner writes home about his July 4 journey through Colorado
It’s gotten to the point where we no longer need to examine or critique Colorado Sen. Cory Gardner’s words at all. They speak for themselves.
Still no town hall and now Gardner is refusing to be anywhere near a protest
U.S. Sen. Cory Gardner’s (R-CO) spokesman, Casey Contres, told Steamboat Today on Friday that the senator had to cancel a planned lunch with local GOP officials “in order to accommodate a necessary healthcare meeting.”
Here are my questions for Gardner about the U.S. Senate’s health care bill. Please add yours.
Here’s my list of key questions for Gardner. Please add yours in the comment section.
Hundreds attend health care rally led by disability rights activists at Sen. Gardner’s office
Hundreds of concerned community members, along with state lawmakers and disability rights activists, rallied in front of U.S. Sen. Cory Gardner’s (R-CO) Denver office today to protest the GOP bill to replace Obamacare.
Citing sick child in England, Gardner remains committed to Obamacare replacement; sees progress on Senate bill
Citing an English child with a rare degenerative brain disease, U.S. Sen. Cory Gardner (R-CO) remains committed to repealing and replacing Obamacare, and he’s “been told” the U.S. Senate has made progress toward writing viable legislation.
Is Gardner trying to shirk responsibility for calling the police on protesters with disabilities at his office?
Last Thursday, after a health care sit-in that lasted nearly sixty hours, nine disability rights activists with the Denver-born organization ADAPT, many of whom are in wheelchairs, were arrested at the office of U.S. Sen. Cory Gardner (R-CO).