Associated Press
South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley (R) is clearly on a roll when it comes to health care. Three weeks ago, she vetoed an HPV vaccine bill, despite bipartisan support in the state legislature, and despite the fact that the proposal would save lives by preventing cervical cancer. Soon after, the Republican governor vowed to kill Medicaid expansion in her state.
Annie-Rose Strasser highlighted Haley's latest antics yesterday.
Late last week, South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley (R) vetoed nearly half a million dollars that was slated to go toward domestic violence and sexual assault prevention.
Haley defended the veto, according to theCharleston City Paper, saying that rape and sexual assault prevention programs “distract from” the Department of Health’s mission, and that sexual assault victims are “only a small portion” of South Carolinians who need help.
No, seriously, that's what she said. Haley characterized rape and sexual assault prevention programs as "special add-on" programs that shift the state's focus away from the health department's "broader mission of protecting South Carolina's public health."
Rebecca Schoenkopf's report noted, "[T]he State Law Enforcement Division reports that South Carolina's rape rate has exceeded the national rate every year since 1982." Pamela Jacobs, executive director of the South Carolina Coalition Against Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault, added that if Haley's veto isn't overridden, rape crisis centers will lose 37% of their current state funding, "which will drastically reduce their ability to respond to victims and provide prevention education."
If this is part of some scheme to help the governor advance her national ambitions, Nikki Haley must not think highly of the value of Republican primary voters.
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Nikki Haley perfectly understands GOP voters.
It's not rape if it's your sister daughter or cousin... sheeyoot we do that all the time here . People make such a big deal about rape
Yup, she understands stupidity, in fact she is well acquainted with it.
Governor Haley is another right wing idiot that don't give one iota about their poor people! You good people of SC are idiots if you don't vote this stupid sob out of office, hell you should recall her!
She is turning down money for medicaid that people need, but she don't give a @!$%# about you. SC has always been a backwards state and this is one reason. No offense meant to the people of SC.
I think you mean "on a roll" -- though what "role" she's trying out for is also an interesting question.
One thing I know was not meant was "honor roll."
If her party (parties?) wants to deny there is a war on women, it might want to tell its commanders to stop firing at them.
what to say? She is despicable and sucks up constantly to the 'cranky white men' that think rape is just 'fine' because women are there to serve THEM.
And let us not forget that even a pregnancy resulting from rape is a "blessing in disguise" because all children are a "gift from the Lord" doncha know. (sarcasm off)
How much longer can we remain human if we continue to place monetary values on acts and organizations which diminish the suffering of members of our own race?
Monkeys will comfort other monkeys without ever determining the banana value first.
And if they don't like it they can just close their eyes, oh oh wrong state same mentality.
She knows exactly the value of Republican primary voters: one vote each, plus or minus. She also knows that half of them are men, and quite a few of the remainder hold "it can't happen to me" as their most fundamental belief.
"It can't happen here/to me" is a de facto mantra for too many Americans.
Somebody should make sure they add it to her wikipedia page.
Great idea!! Let's see: Anti choice (a/k/a forced birth), anti health care delivery, pro cervical cancer, not really anti rape or domestic violence. An early backer of Mitt, she ordered all state workers to answer the phone by saying "It's a great day in South Carolina." Will people of the future believe this?
That she sees nothing wrong with blocking help to victims of rape says what about her? And what does it say about her relationship with men?
I think maybe she is a lesbian, no wait, she doesn't like women, she likes the 1%. What a douchebag!!!!
Mike, don't say Lesbian like it's a bad thing.
Apparently women in the deep south are heavily anti-abortion. In that context these statements aren't very scandalous. It's got to be tough to be pro-choice in these areas.
I live in SC, and it is tough. But her ridiculous actions are actually helping Democrats in small ways. A decent number of the politically active in my hometown have switched sides in the last year or so, mostly due to Gov. Haley. Unfortunately, the Repub hordes still outnumber us.
See, it's all about the librul plot to steal our preshus libertees. Because some foolish librul doctors analyze gun deaths as a public health problem, any attempt to treat violence of any kind as a public health problem is an insidious secret assault on our sacred Second Amendment rights, which are, after all the only rights guarenteed by the Constitooshun.
No, really. I seriously think that's what's going on in their heads.
WTF? Man, I can't read your post Steve...too many mispelled words...like librul..liberal
preshus....precious guarenteed....guaranteed Constitooshun....Constitution libertees....liberties...not trying to be a smartass, just thought I'd help ya out. Obama/Biden 2012
Sarcasm alert, Mike. I think Steve is trying to read the minds of people who think like Haley.
That is the way you spell with a heavy southern accent, must be you have never been south of the Mason Dixon Line
. . . . or lived through the Bush Administration.
Mike, geez, first time on the Internet for you, is it? If the Lefty Online Manual of Style, it says quite clearly that 'librul' is the spelling to use when making fun of right-wingers and their functionally illiterate comments. Real wingers never use 'librul'.
This upsets be greatly. Ms. Haley is a South Asian woman, where domestic violence is extremely prevalent. She should be doing all she can to fund programs to help and assist women. Disgusting.
The collaborationist mentality is very common.
For all you naysayers, you do realize that Michelle Obama stopped the HPV distribution to Chicago inner city girls.
Cite a source or you're a liar.
His cousin Ralph sent him an email...it must be true
Single handedly? By what authority? Don't even go there, troll... the people on this blog are waaaay too smart for people like you.
Hey buddy, smartness is for haynus librul eleetists...Real Americans don't need no smartness...we got INNAVIJUL LIBERTIES!!!"
Robert: apparently it is not quite true that Michelle Obama "stopped the distribution of HPV." Rather, she objected to the University of Chicago Medical Center using African-American children as research subjects in a study of HPV. For her, this was uncomfortably close to the notorious Tuskegee experiment.
Be reminded that participation in a research study of a vaccine is not necessarily the same as getting that vaccine. I can speak of this firsthand. A member of my own family (now deceased) participated in a research study of a cancer medication. The oncologist made it clear that (1) the therapeutic value of the drug was not yet established, (2) she might not be getting appropriate doses of the drug, and (3) she might even not get a drug at all, but a placebo. (As it happened, she did get the drug, and it did help.)
The fact that Michelle successfully torpedoed an HPV research study in Chicago was brought up in a 2008 New York Times profile. Apparently this information made little impact, except on certain right-wing blogs. Of course, the right-wingers metamorphosed "Michelle was concerned about white doctors using African-American girls as research subjects" into "Michelle wants black girls to die of cancer." Or, to quote directly from one blog: "Did Michelle Obama, channeling Rev. Wright's racist paranoia, condemn south Chicago girls and young women to unnecessary and preventable STDs and cervical cancer?" (Yipes.)
Here is the relevant passage from the NYT's article, "After Attacks, Michelle Obama Looks for a New Introduction" (June 18, 2008):
"In the mostly black neighborhoods around the hospital, Mrs. Obama became the voice of a historically white institution. Behind closed doors, she tried to assuage their frustrations about a place that could seem forbidding.
Like many urban hospitals, the medical center’s emergency room becomes clogged with people who need primary care. So Mrs. Obama trained counselors, mostly local blacks, to hand out referrals to health clinics lest black patients felt they were being shooed away.
She also altered the hospital’s research agenda. When the human papillomavirus vaccine, which can prevent cervical cancer, became available, researchers proposed approaching local school principals about enlisting black teenage girls as research subjects.
Mrs. Obama stopped that. The prospect of white doctors performing a trial with black teenage girls summoned the specter of the Tuskegee syphilis experiment of the mid-20th century, when white doctors let hundreds of black men go untreated to study the disease.
'She’ll talk about the elephant in the room,' said Susan Sher, her boss at the hospital, where Mrs. Obama is on leave from her more-than-$300,000-a-year job."
New York Times link: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/18/us/politics/18michelle.html?pagewanted=1&_r=2&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss
Right-wing blog links:
http://beldar.blogs.com/beldarblog/2008/06/did-michelle-ob.html
http://www.nationalreview.com/campaign-spot/9428/did-michelle-obama-cancel-hpv-vaccine-program-comparing-it-tuskeegee
Thank you, Scholar.
Ah, the scientific method - supporting facts, not hearsay. Huzzah, Scholar!
Oh no you didn't.
it is and alligation and it had more to do with black girls being guinea pigs when the vaccine was first introduced.
Since HPV stands for "Human PapillomaVirus", isn't it a good thing then that she "stopped the HPV distribution to Chicago inner city girls." ?
Just sayin'.... :)
I just read the following in the "Onion" I thought the affordable health care act was a good thing... and if the prez wants to repeal it why would he wait to be re-elected? I don't get this... is it true? With so many lies being told, its hard to tell.
WASHINGTON—Calling it a "poorly conceived and irresponsible piece of legislation, pure and simple," President Obama made a public pledge to voters Tuesday that, if reelected, he would fight to repeal the recently upheld Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
In an address to the nation broadcast live from the White House, the president promised voters in sharp, forceful terms that the very first act of his second term would be to "strike down this unjust and unconstitutional law," which he said would place "an unacceptable burden on hardworking Americans."
"Citizens going to the polls in November should know that if they reelect me, they will not have to face the consequences of this bloated, oppressive act," said Obama, who called the legislation a "906-page monstrosity." "This law isn't merely an attack on our current health care system. It's an attack on our core values and what it means to be an American. And mark my words, an Obama administration will support those values, not destroy them."
"Frankly, this toxic plan is just another needless tax to pay—nothing more, nothing less," Obama continued. "It's harmful and it's wrong and I won't stand for it."
Blasting members of Congress for "voting to vastly overstep government authority," Obama said that under his leadership the federal government would not "reach into the pockets of honest taxpayers" to pay for the extension of health care benefits enacted by the legislation.
Obama added that if the plan goes into effect, it is "100 percent guaranteed" to bankrupt the United States within 10 years.
Proponents of the health care act have yet to respond to the president's numerous criticisms of the law, which he claimed would increase insurance premiums and force every American to receive subpar medical treatment.
"I'm going to say it in plain English: I will not let Obamacare stunt job growth, drive up the cost of health care, and cripple our economy—I simply won't let it happen," the president said. "Come November, should I be reelected, it will be my great pleasure to walk into the Oval Office, take my pen in hand, and sign a big 'adios' repealing this grave threat to our country's future."
Added Obama, "That is a promise you can take to the voting booth."
Are you really taking the Onion seriously? Or are you just trolling?
is this serious?? 'Cause The Onion is not...
Wow, I took the post as a joke. Surely no one takes the Onion seriously?
On second thought, I could be wrong. Hard to tell these days.
Jody...
The Onion is a satirical weekly publication published 52 times a year on Thursdays
as in... no... it's not serious... none of "articles" in The Onion are serious.
Source... http://www.theonion.com/faq/
Jody: the Onion is a comedy site. The article is a joke. Frankly, this joke falls flat--the Onion is usually funnier than this. (See, for example, the Onion's recent clever bit about how Superman fans can no longer accept the idea that the Daily Planet makes money.)
This Onion article is a brilliant send-up of Romney's ironic position on Obamacare. C'mon, satire merely requires intelligence, awareness, and a sense of humor.
Seriously? You'll find more facts in Doonesbury. The Onion is satire. Jody, did you really think it was nooz?
I liked the story the Onion put out about a 500-foot Osama Bin Laden rising out of the ocean coming to the shores of America to invade it ala Godzilla.... because, you know, it's not real, like ALL of their stories.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/10/hpv-vaccine_n_1662958.html
I'm convinced Nikki Haley lied during her campaign to win votes. How can anyone find her policy choices acceptable? It's baffling and scary.
"If this is part of some scheme to help the governor advance her national ambitions, Nikki Haley must not think highly of the value of Republican primary voters."
Steve must put these sort of lines in on purpose to generate the obvious responses. Which is, of course, she knows the values of her GOTea constituents very well, indeed. That's exactly why she did what she did.
I do not feel sorry for the people in South Carolina. They voted her ass in office. They should reep what they sow. they knew her positions and they voted on them. No need to whine about now.
That is ignorant. I, and 630,000 others, voted for Sheheen. You imply that we all wanted her. By your justification, if Romney gets elected, no one should feel bad for the millions of people that he will victimize by gutting Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, and education, because "we elected him"?
Note: Haley only had 60k more votes. It wasn't a landslide.
Romney just got booed at the NAACP gig when he said he would repeal ACA. Of course his handlers claimed they were booing the ACA not the fact that he would repeal it. Does he actually think ANYONE would believe this?!!!
I'm sure he doesn't care if anyone believes it as long as they accept it and repeat it frequently.
Way to go Nikki!! The People of South Carolina deserve you! Thank goodness too that she straightened out that rape distraction from the Department of Health's true mission. That is the kind of efficiency that the GOP is going to bring to the table Amercia!
They're already doing it in Florida to TB treatment. After all, TB went out of style with the Great Depression. No one dies of it anymore. Or is that just cancer that no one dies from anymore?
Every day there's some new hatred from the right. Every day that star Congresswoman for the republicans stands up and says there's no war on women. I feel completely disconnected from fellow Americans who spew such venom. I don't know how to fight it. When I counter that the republican party has lost its compassion for our fellow man, they call me a liberal who wants dependency on government.
"They call me a liberal." This is what concerns me most. Calling someone a liberal or a feminist seems to be considered an insult. There is NOTHING wrong with being liberal. Nothing wrong with wanting equal rights for everyone. Nothing wrong with wanting the poor, disenfranchised or persecuted to be given assistance and support. I am an atheist....and yet I find myself thinking, WWJD?
Rabbi Yeshua ben Yosef would probably say something like "Resist the opressor!"
I feel the same way, Chris. I consider myself fiscal conservative and I abhor the amounts of spending the current administration is throwing away. But when I read stuff like this I get just as angry because it's the wrong things being cut. I then get called a government mooching liberal by my own party and told to get a job. My husband and I both have a full time job and I get no assistance at all from the government. In fact, when I was out of a job for 5 months and could have applied for several assistance programs, I never did. There are people more in need than I was!
Both sides need a reality check, Dems and Reps alike. There's too much hate being thrown around for anyone to actually fix any of the problems we actually have going on. Work together, people, not against. We're circling the toilet and will continue to do so until enough people figure out that this useless fighting is doing nothing.
Jody...
The Onion is a satirical weekly publication published 52 times a year on Thursdays
as in... no... it's not serious... none of "articles" in The Onion are serious.
Source... http://www.theonion.com/faq/
Robert a a Chicagoian I'm Here to tell you that NO ONE stopped the HPV Virus program in Chicago
This just in from a future The Rachel Maddow Show. "Nikki Haley's Re-Election Campaign. Did not fair well, as most would have expected. Everyone that is, except Nikki Haley of course. Not only did she lose. She lost by staggering numbers. Almost 4 to 1 in some districts. The full story. Coming right up after this break. Please stay tuned."
Ah, what a lovely dream. The fact is that many people probably won't bother to vote and the right wing, their knickers in a twist, will vote in droves.
It's probably closer to reality than a dream. Because for the life of me. I have yet to figure out. Why the GOP continuously tries and succeeds in pissing off. The one section of voters. That always has the highest turn out. Women.
It makes absolutely no political sense. To alienate yourself. From a section of voters. Who are the mostly likely to vote. And pissing them off. Or just flat out degrading them. Is one sure fired way to not get their vote. And by default not get elected.
Doesn't matter how many Millions you spend on TV ads. Women never for get the people who degrade, demean or just frankly pisses them off. For a man to do it. Is bad, but for another woman to do it. Is political career suicide.
Does this mean Nikki Haley is pro-rape or just indifferent about it? What a lovely human being.
Indifference to others' suffering is pretty much what defines a Republican.
It is one of the things that defines pretty much everyone on the right.
I was born and raised in South Carolina, and folks like Haley are the reason that I am no longer a resident of the state. I am not sure what planet she is living on, but rape and incest are huge problems in her state, and she really should be ashamed of herself for cutting funds to help those who can not help themselves. But what can we expect from a state that still has a law on the books that tells husbands that they can legally beat their wives as long as they do it on the court house steps?
Nikki cut the funds. Because the honest truth is. Victims of Rape and incest. Are usually poor and vote Democratic. And most Rape victims in SC are college age women. Who vote Democratic. So she really isn't losing all that much voter wise. Just a lot of self respect and humanity. But when you've sold your soul. What are you really losing in those two things anyway?
'The numbers are staggering.
According to a just-released government survey, nearly one-third of women report they had been victims of sexual violence - rape, beating or stalking - at some point in their lives. Additionally, one in seven men had experienced severe violence at the hands of an intimate partner and 1-to-2% had been raped.
The high numbers surprised even some experts. They point to a problem in our society that is poorly addressed and that has profound implications for its victims.'http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/couch-meets-world/201112/sexual-abuse-new-statistics-new-hope
I've worked with boys and girls that have been sexually abused and it's the most heart wrenching work to watch some, not all, destroy their lives for they cannot heal.
Remember these are statistics of people reporting, most go unreported. It appears that the governor of South Carolina just made a statement to all of the victims! They just don't matter. How incredibly sad!