North Carolina Governor's Henchman Caves. #LetOurPoorPeopleLive #STDDs, Week 47

Pat McCrory, the governor of North Carolina, turns away from poor people.

     As you may recall, Support the Dream Defenders recently filed a lawsuit against North Carolina Governor Pat McCrory because he had failed to respond at all to our legitimate public records requests for Medicaid Expansion documents. If you will, please direct your attention to the vertical date-stamp in the upper right-hand corner of the photograph above. As you can see, the Wake County Clerk received and filed our lawsuit on July 8, 2015 at 11:16 a.m.

     So, we sued Governor McCrory on July 8, and two days later the good governor surrendered.

     Not only did the Governor write a letter within two days after the lawsuit was filed, he made sure it was in the mail that same day. Mucking a bad poker hand usually takes longer than this.

     At this time, we have accomplished our short-term goal, which was to make the North Carolina Governor answer some hard questions about Medicaid Expansion. As you can see from his letter, he doesn't seem to care how many people are in pain, dying, or filing for bankruptcy because he signed a bill blocking Medicaid Expansion. He doesn't even have a document in his office showing how many people in his state have no health care. Shouldn't every Governor have that?

     Our medium-term goal is to begin shaming these Republican Governors and State Legislators for what they are doing, the pain they are causing, and the people they are killing. Not to mention the money they're wasting.

     You can help us by tweeting to the hashtags #LetOurPoorPeopleLive and #NationalShamingProject. Send letters to the editors of your local newspapers. Now is time for the media and the American people to tell these villainous scoundrels that they cannot keep getting away with murder.

     Our long-term goal is to see Medicaid Expansion a reality across America. This is the part of ObamaCare that is true Single-Payer, and we want it to catch on. We also hate to see thousands and thousands of needless deaths every year. There are four million people across our country in the "Medicaid Gap."Ten percent of them, or about 400,000, live in North Carolina.