Republican Attorney General Rob McKenna and Democratic Gov. Chris Gregoire are not working together in the best interest of Washingtonians with the implementation of the health law in the state and they both talk out of both sides of their mouths.
I hope McKenna drops the lawsuit, which I think is politically motivated. McKenna committed our state resources, saying he only intended to strip out the individual insurance mandates and the medical expansion. The fact is that the briefs and claims that McKenna signed specifically requested that the entire health care law be appealed and when the federal district judge in Florida ruled all, not some, of our hard-won rights were invalidated. Yet McKenna celebrated on this.
Let Gregoire and McKenna go somewhere else and politic. This is partisan politics and wrong for Washington state.
We do not need McKenna for governor, that is for sure. His lawsuits explicitly asked for repeal of the entire law. He claims to support the protection of the state of Washington but instead the court ruling has made it clear that McKenna’s lawsuits will hurt Washington families. If McKenna persists with this lawsuit, we stand to lose all the progress we’ve made.
