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Berkley denies Wynn's claim she was forced into health care vote
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| Contributor | Scott³ |
| Last Edited | Scott³ Oct 24, 2011 08:41pm |
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| Author | Ben Smith |
| News Date | Tuesday, October 25, 2011 02:40:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | "The gambling magnate Steve Wynn, a major Nevada political player and key supporter of local figures of both parties told Fox Business yesterday that Democratic Rep. Shelley Berkley, who is running for Senate, only voted for health care for fear of then-Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
"I supported a Democratic Congresswoman named Shelley Berkley. I called her during Obamacare. I said, 'Shelly, what are you doing? How do you do this? This is killing unions and all of us supplying health care to our employees,'" Wynn recalled. "She said to me, quote, this is not hearsay — Shelly said to me — and she is running for the Senate — ‘Steve, I know it's terrible. My husband's a doctor, and he hates it, too. If I don't vote for it, she will punish me,' she being Nancy Pelosi."
Berkley backed the bill in general terms in 2009 but was late to come around to the final version, voicing concerns, including those from labor leaders, that a new excise tax would hit workers' health plans hard." |
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