The Coalition for a Healthy Oregon PAC has contributed $2,000 and $1,000 respectively to Fred Messerle and Melissa Cribbins. According to FollowTheMoney.org the PAC is an institution and a registered lobbyist and has given $1,180,258 from 2004 to 2012 mostly to partisan races for the state legislature. Arnie Roblan has received $30,000 since 2004. Only $5,000 or .42% of contributions have been to non-partisan races so I asked an associate of the PAC, Josh Balloch, why the coalition was supporting these candidates.
Commissioner Fred Messerle and Ms. Melissa Cribbins are two county leaders who are committed to making the Health Transformation a success. They have a deep understanding of the local health care issues and the unique challenges facing providers on the south coast. This kind of expertise is invaluable for helping create a sustainable health care delivery system and improving the overall health of the south coast.
Both of these individuals embrace the goals and objectives of the Coalition for a Healthy Oregon so we have chosen to support them this election.
The Health Transformation is a major overhaul of the Oregon Health Plan and while it is laudable that Cribbins and Messerle are supportive I am unclear how, as commissioners, they would have significant impact on a state initiative at the county level and I have posed the question to Balloch. Additionally, how did the PAC ascertain the “deep knowledge” and full support of these particular candidates? Did the PAC send questionnaires to all the candidates or conduct interviews?
If anyone understands how the outcome of a county commission race might support the goals and objectives of the coalition enough to justify investing $3,000 please help me understand.
The county has become a laboratory for studying the influence of outside money on local politics and November may well demonstrate how a very few can run roughshod over the many, …in the current presidential election, 0.000063 percent of Americans — fewer than 200 of the country’s 310 million residents — have contributed 80 percent of all super-PAC donations.”
Meanwhile, Messerle has receipted another $4,200 towards his goal of becoming a fully paid part time commissioner and centralizing the county power structure.
It”s pretty clear to me that this Medical Lobbyist thinks they can get something very special from these candidates. The DOC’s guess is right on. DOC’s is notorious for furnishing pretty lousy medical care. I’m certain they are looking for more County funds to be invested in their “group”. I imagine they are incorporated. I frankly need to get more information of this group. I believe I heard they would be supervising physical and mental health needs. I’m not sure they are qualilfied and frankly if they are REALLY interested in the over all health of Coos County residents. My feeling is they are in it for the almighty BUCK! I don’t think that is laudable in a not for profit group. It woul d be well to investigate just what their goals are in the REAL world. This really has a foul odor eminating from it. I will not be voting for any of the candidates mentioned above! This is getting to be a “fat cat” race. As Mary and others say …Follow The Money.
OK, I’m a teeny weenie bit smarter oday. Follow the money. What is the connection between Southwest Oregon Independent Practice Assn. Inc who do business as DOCS Doctors of the Oregon Coast South and the Portland PAC funding Messy. DOCS with offices downtown Coos Bay manages the Oregon health plan in Coos County. Do they want more if they get Messy elected?
Several of us have been watching this current parade for health care. Something is really fishy about it, I can’t find anything but propaganda about it so far. In what I can deduce from here, is it is going to be a complete overhaul of the system for Medicaid systems. My red flags tell me it is a way to throw the poorest, sickest out of the system for “not performing” the way they are told to prevent illness and chronic disorders. You’re told to lose weight? You don’t? No health care for you. You smoke? You’re told to quit, you don’t? No health treatments for you. And on and on. This is NOT being done For The People, it’s being done so the richest among us don’t have to pay their historical share in the financing of the Republic. Let’s stop kidding ourselves, the wealthy, and I mean the really wealthy DO NOT PAY TAXES, THEY PAY ACCOUNTANTS. Plain and simple. This nation is floundering because those that can, find it clever and helpful to find ways NOT to pay their taxes. We all know that to be the fact, no sense arguing about it. History folks, read history, the Democrat leadership is simply playing the game so the Repubs don’t hollar too loud and scare them. And it’s the working folks who carry the burden, THEIR kids don’t attend the broken public schools, so they don’t care, they have the funds to buy top notch health care, they don’t care.
Health care is just another service to be slashed to the bone, so the Sause’s of Coos County can continue to ride their wave of funds pouring into this county. Meet your masters.
When any organization or individual lobbies and supports a politician that controls public purse strings, they have a goal in mind for tapping those funds. That goal is their secret agenda that they don’t tell the public. The more we see this with the SCDC candidates, the more we can expect that result after the election. This election cycle is going to serve only one purpose as far as the general public is concerned, its going to expose the true nature of those individuals to more people that are’nt aware. Lets hope the results of having such a government awakens the rest of the county in time for the next election two years from now. Your vote this cycle is not going to make a difference. What these people do with their win will dictate the results of the next election.
Could it be because of the County Health Department and how they feel about funding it? Just a thought . . .
What a crock of crap from the PAC. Barton, Petit and Slater may be correct. If we believe that crap, we are too stupid to vote. What have Messerle and Cribbins promised to the puppeteers pulling the strings and funding their campaigns? When will Cribbins have time to be a commissioner while starting a potato vodka distllery? Why didn’t Cribbins list all of these life time professions (scientist, etc.) on her candidate filing papers? Who is bullshitting whom?