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GOP committee Censure Speaker for Dems' help in winning post

The Executive Committee of the state Republican Party approved a resolution on Monday night censuring House Speaker Shawn Jasper for relying on Democrats to defeat Bill O'Brien.

The resolution called it a "breach of trust" for Jasper to combine with Democrats to oppose the Republican nominee. It cites Jasper's "personal ambition" and "personal antipathy toward the party's nominee."

The committee approved the resolution 17 to 9. Jennifer Horn, chairwoman of the Republican State Committee and presiding officer at the meeting, did not cast a ballot, as she abstained from the vote.

The meeting was closed to the media.

The censure cites five reasons:

Opposing the Republican caucus's nominee for speaker;

Placing his interests above the interests of the Republican Party and the will of the Republican caucus;

Showing disrespect toward the Republican voters, contributors, and activists whose commitment to Republican candidates made possible the election of Rep. Jasper and his Republican supporters in the House;

Combining with the Democratic caucus to create a governing majority in which Republicans make up less than 20 percent of the total despite having a 60 percent majority in the House;

Risking the long-term party unity and discipline that is essential to the mission, principles, objectives, traditions, and future success of the Republican Party

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Tennessee to Expand Medicaid as Republicans Adapt to Obamacare

Tennessee has moved to the forefront of a new group of Republican-led states jockeying for hundreds of millions of dollars available under Obamacare for Medicaid expansions.

Governor Bill Haslam, a Republican, announced today that the state would expand its Medicaid program for the poor under a real Tennessee solution that the Obama administration supports in principle. Indiana, Utah, Wyoming and Alaska are also considering an expansion, at least 90 percent of which would be funded by the federal government.

All of the states cast their expansions as departures from the traditional Medicaid program, in which participants pay little or nothing toward their care and the government compensates most doctors and hospitals directly. Their modified programs would generally require individuals to bear more of the costs of their health care. Its a compromise that lets state Republicans work with the Obama administration even though their party rejects the health-care law.

We made the decision in Tennessee nearly two years ago not to expand traditional Medicaid, Haslam said in a statement. This plan leverages federal dollars to provide health care coverage to more Tennesseans, to give people a choice in their coverage and to address the cost of health care, better health outcomes and personal responsibility.

Under the plan, called Insure Tennessee, low-income adults would receive either a voucher to help pay premiums for insurance their employers provide or would be enrolled in the states Medicaid program, called TennCare, where they would be liable for unspecified out-of-pocket costs. They could pay their share of costs from accounts funded by the state in exchange for making healthy choices and utilizing the health care system appropriately, Haslams office said in a presentation.

The plan must be approved by the Tennessee legislature next year and by the Obama administration. Haslams office said he had secured verbal approval for the outline of the plan from the U.S. Health and Human Services secretary, Sylvia Mathews Burwell.

The Obama administration is willing to work with any state interested in expanding Medicaid, and welcomes the news out of Tennessee, said Aaron Albright, a spokesman for the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, an arm of Burwells department, in an e-mail. The department has had productive discussions with Governor Haslam, and we look forward to the state submitting its plan to give low-income Tennesseans new options for health coverage.

When Democrats wrote the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, they envisioned forcing every state to enact a Medicaid expansion by otherwise withholding all funding for the program. The Supreme Court ruled in 2012 that approach was unconstitutional, rendering the Medicaid expansion voluntary for governors.

The expansion is aimed at providing Medicaid coverage to people earning near poverty-level wages. In many states, adults without children arent eligible for Medicaid no matter how little their incomes. In states that havent taken advantage of the Affordable Care Acts expansion, including Texas and Florida, most adults with income beneath the poverty level, about $11,670 for a single person, are ineligible for any government assistance purchasing health insurance.

Haslams office said his plan aims to fill this coverage gap created by the Affordable Care Act and the Supreme Courts decision. Tennessee would bring to 28 the number of states that have adopted the Medicaid expansion in some form, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation, a Menlo Park, California, nonprofit group that tracks decisions on the issue.

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David Garth, Strategist to Four New York City Mayors, Dies at 84

David Garth, who advised and directed the election campaigns of the mayors, Democratic and Republican, who ruled New York City for 40 of the past 48 years, has died. He was 84.

He died today at his home in Manhattan following a long illness, his nephew, Jonathan Rosenbloom, said in a telephone interview.

A pioneer of political television advertising, Garth ran his own firm, the Garth Group Inc. He was political director for many elected officials, including governors of New Jersey, New York and Connecticut, and was a consultant to other politicians.

Starting with John Lindsay, a Republican, in 1965, Garth ran the campaigns of four successful New York mayoral candidates. His other winners were Ed Koch, a Democrat, Rudy Giuliani, a Republican, and Michael Bloomberg, who first ran as a Republican before becoming an independent. Bloomberg completed the last of his three terms in office in 2013.

Garth was known for combative, issue-oriented ads.

Koch, in his first run for mayor in 1977, challenged incumbent Abraham Beame, who was seeking a second term to finish the job. In a Garth-scripted ad, Koch shot back: Finish the job? Hasnt he done enough?

Koch went on to serve three terms as mayor.

In New Jersey, Garth was media manager for former Governor Brendan T. Byrne, a Democrat. In Pennsylvania, he was campaign manager for former U.S. Senator Arlen Specter when he was a Republican.

Others who sought his help included Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley and West Virginia Governor Jay Rockefeller, both Democrats, and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin.

Not all of Garths candidates won. John B. Anderson hired Garth as his national campaign manager but failed to find traction as a third-party presidential candidate in 1980. Walter Mondale hired him to design TV and radio ads but lost his 1984 challenge to President Ronald Reagan in a landslide.

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