Healthy Montana Kids Arrives Back at House Floor Thursday
by jhwygirl
HB2, the general appropriations bill, is back on the House floor for vote Thursday.
Will the evenly split House concur the amendments added in the Senate – including the cutting of CHIP by 15,000 kids?
House Democrats, headed up by Speaker Bob Bergren of Havre, have promised to reject the amendments, so tomorrow’s vote could take quite a while.
Apparently, according to Montana Republicans up there in Helena, we voters don’t know what we approved.
Missoula’s Representative Bill Nooney might want to reconsider his previous “No” vote on this matter back earlier in the session when he called the funding of children’s health care “socialized medicine”. Because while Missoula County voters approved I-155 overwhelmingly – with 76.6% majority, Nooney only won his election with 53% of the vote.
Why would Nooney ignore those numbers? Will he ignore those numbers…because the numbers, after all, are really voters.
My suggestion, people – give Rep. Bill Nooney a call or shoot him an email and let him know that Missoulian’s voted for CHIP – it’s his job to make sure it is funded like we voted it. Do it now. Tonight. First thing in the morning. During your lunch.
House floor hearing starts at 1 p.m., Thursday.
Nooney’s phone number and email are listed here on his state legislative webpage.
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April 16, 2009 at 5:08 pm
I appreciate your effort to get Nooney to vote the way his constituents would like him to vote. Good luck. Nooney consistently votes against the wishes of his district — his support of gravel pits comes to mind — but there are a herd of other bills he voted the wrong way on, too.