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Randi Weingarten and Michael Mulgrew “heard you” and humored you but will not support you and do not care about your health care.

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That's a pretty good interpretation, so far. We are working to change that, and we will not accept empty gestures.

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Arthur you’re always on point, reading between the lines, not letting Mulgrew pull the wool over our eyes. Thank you for helping to protect the retirees!

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Thanks for your kind words, Patricia.

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I have a different take on Mulgrew’s resolutions: I think it’s not so much a question of talking out of two sides of his mouth as being thoroughly confused in his thinking about what Medicare actually is. I think he conflates Traditional Medicare with the various structures we have today for its delivery. So where you say “The wording is too nebulous” — totally agree, but on the grounds that he doesn’t really know what he’s talking about. If you have a moment or two, I explained it more fully in this post: underassault dot blogspot dot com “Mulgrew’s new resolutions…”

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Jul 26Liked by Arthur Goldstein

Actually both: he’s two faced AND he doesn’t have a grasp on the whole thing.

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I was just going to reply to your first comment, asking, "Why can't it be both?" Well, we both agree that it is.

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Well, it's 8 hours later, and still no response from Randi.

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I'm not on xitter and would never go there. But I did contact the AFT, and contacted Randi on her FB page. I had to message her, because there is no ability to comment publicly on her page. I guess she's not interested in hearing from her constituents.

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She's usually pretty good about responding, actually.

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Jul 24Liked by Arthur Goldstein

I'll let you know.

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Well, it's 8 hours later, and still no response from Randi.

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She's running the AFT Convention in Houston right now. Regardless, I think her position is pretty clear. They passed a resolution. Mulgrew wrote us an email boasting about it because he takes all of us for fools.

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What's the best way to contact Randi Weingarten?

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She's on Facebook and Twitter. Also, here is the AFT contact page.

https://www.aft.org/contact

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