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Published Tuesday, April 27, 2010 | 1:16 p.m.
Updated Tuesday, April 27, 2010 | 1:56 p.m.
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Here is audio file of what Senate hopeful Sue Lowden said on Alan Stock's radio show about her controversial bartering remarks. Transcript below:
Sue Lowden: I have been, and but I want to say that I know that bartering takes place here in Nevada. It takes place throughout the country and that Harry Reid has been attacking me for saying something like that and the truth is it is happening and that’s how out of touch he is.
SL: When I made those statements, when I was talking about bartering I was in the rural community of Mesquite where there are a lot of farmers up there and we were having a one-hour town hall meeting about every subject.
SL: Harry Reid has a paid operative who follows me everywhere with a camera and the one-hour conversation… The only thing that was taken out of that one-hour conversation was about thirty seconds was about bartering. They took it way out of context.
SL: The truth of the matter is there is bartering going on in this state and in the country. It has been going on for years and it was a casual statement talking about the reality of what’s going on, and not in a negative way by the way. This is something… you know when I talk about bartering like you said it’s also bargaining for the price, asking doctors if there’s a different price if you’re paying cash or paying by check. We know this is going on.
SL: Alan frankly I grew up poor. I grew up with a single mom. We didn’t have insurance. How do you think we got our health care? I know that this has gone on for many many years.
Sue Lowden loves bailouts, opposes real Wall Street Reform
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Were those bartering agreements reported as income to the IRS? Sue needs to pay attention to what comes out of her mouth before she gets someone in trouble with the IRS.
The funniest part of this whole non-story is that Reid recently proved that he is the King of Bartering. Has everyone forgotten the Louisiana Purchase prelude to the health care legislation?
Has anyone noticed that the whole premise of bartering or cash bargaining is only necessary because so many people are lacking insurance protection.
Lets take the concept to mandatory car insurance. In an accident, offer to give the guy you hit a chicken rather than carrying auto insurance.
The funniest part of this whole story is that Lowden is too stupid to know when to STFU.
She's dumber than a chicken and proud of it. Luckily for voters she's not even smart enough to hide her ignorance until after the election.
LastThroes said, "Luckily for voters she's not even smart enough to hide her ignorance until after the election."
I thought the same exact thing about Jim Gibbons, but people still voted for that idiot. I have no confidence in the intelligence of Nevada voters.
The RJ and nut talk radio have been trying to prop up Lowden by beating the bushes looking for a hand full of kooky doctors that would take a pair of old knee pads in exchange for a Oxycontin Prescription.
The bizarre world of talk radio will be the down fall of Princess Lowden. Maybe Alan Stock can trade a Hawaiian shirt for a lobotomy?
Chickens react to Lowden's Chickens for Checkups plan. Pretty funny stuff...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3lwamcvr...
When a politician makes a bone-headed remark (which every politician does, eventually), you take your punches and wait for the storm to blow over. The news cycle eventually moves on.
What you do not do is give it new life by drawing attention to it again... and AGAIN. She's taken what would have been a minor two-day story in Nevada and turned it into a running national joke.
Her failure to grasp the basics of political messaging is shocking, to say the least. Going to be a long, long drag between now and November at this rate -- assuming she even makes it out of the GOP primary.
This is starting to remind me of her sister, you all remember that "Bridge to Nowhere" garbage she spouted for months after she was outed on the whole subject!
sportsracer
Good video. Funny!
I really hope she doesn't go into detail about what her single mother bartered in order to get health care in new Jersey. As Gregg Allman sang, "Every hungry woman has been in your place before ..."
I know this may sound crazy, but I DON'T want to barter for my health care! I suspect most people including the doctors are with me on this.
I like to see the Chicken Liberals have a good laugh once in a while. They don't usually have much to laugh about, since Harry, Dina and Rory are all polling so bad.
I hope our Chicken Liberal friends will maintain the same good sense of humor come November 3rd...
Is Suzy Lowdown actually trying to LOSE the primary??!! She's already been on her way to losing the general that she had supposedly "already won" (if The R-J was to be believed), but she keeps breathing more life into this story that isn't doing her any good. Not only is a certain someone from Searchlight smiling, but perhaps all the GOoPers running against her as well?
Any smart candidate would've had this settled two weeks ago.
This is the type of negative press one tries to avoid. Instead, she had that negative press go national.
Things won't look good for Lowden if this self-destructive streak continues.
Sue Lowden calling someone out of touch is like the pot calling the kettle black. Not only is she out of touch, she is clueless. She got her sugar daddy and could care less about anybody else. No healthcare, I got mine who cares about you. Pre-existing condition and cant get insurance? Paint the doctors house, I got mine to heck with you. Dropped from insurance because you were diagnosed with breast cancer? Too bad, try trading chickens for chemotherapy. I got my sugar daddy so heck with you!!! Now who is out of touch?
I am amazed how this whole bartering concept has gotten legs. It gets national attention and is the subject of late night comedies. This election will prove to be very entertaining.
I got the biggest laugh out of the blogger claiming to be the republican chickenhawk until they realized the meaning.
it just keeps getting better lol
She needs new handlers... badly.
Lowden and Ensign both claim to have been the poor children of single working mom.....isn't america great!
Harry Reid says that he was so poor he had to go into politics as a Democrat to become a multi-millionaire...
Aon...
Amen.
Can you say "Political Suicide"?
No Larry if you actually did your research Harry Reid worked hard, became a cop to pay his way through law school, then worked for the Gaming Commission. This is a true rags to riches story through HARD work.
Little Ms Sue married a sugar daddy. She was pretty face and worked that angle to get what she got. She is dumb as a box of rocks and you clearly see she is on the same level as Sarah Palin when you get her off script.
Stephen Colbert is on the suzy chicken trading story now and it's hilarious.
Lowdown's gone from completely unknown outside of Nevada to a giant laughingstock with, now two, comedians joining in the fun. Watching a clueless teabagger self-destruct doesn't get any better than this!
Sue Lowden is the greatest Nevada Republican woman politician since Kathy Augustine. Kathy Augustine bartered for health care with her 4th husband, Chaz Higgs R.N.. The barter backfired when Chaz injected her with a poison; a powerful paralytic drug called succinylcholine.
Wait until we hear from Sharron Angle. Lowden will seem like Winston Churchill compared to Angle.
vc... At least Sue Lowden did it lawfully...
State Senator Sue Lowden supported Kathy Augustine's campaign lie that State Senator Lori Lipman Brown boycotted the senate chamber pledge of allegiance.
any1 read the article manufacturing of wind turbine coming here. thank u harry reid.
i am going to take a chicken to my dentist maybe they can barter
This has moved right passed funny and has become quite sad. I can't even joke about it anymore it's so pathetic. Bartering is not going to solve the healthcare problem Sue. For those who don't have health insurance they are lucky that a doctor will even see them. When you call up for an appointment it is one of the first things asked "do you have insurance?". If you don't, the tone in receptionist's voice gets cold very fast. "Well, how do you intend to pay? We will need full payment on the visit". That's your greeting these days with doctors. I think doctors have been burned way too much. They have serious expenses and though a few will do some charity work here and there that is not the solution to the healthcare crisis we have in this country -- unless we are asking doctors to become mendicant saints. It was forecast that about 52 million americans would be uninsured in 2010, that's 19% of the non-elderly population. These people are flooding emergency rooms and unable to pay. Hospitals are getting creamed and this arrogant, rich polititian is still talking about bartering as a real option. She should be running for mayor of Fernley, not senator of Nevada.
Arrogance is as arrogance does.
Selfish is as selfish does.
Please... people of Nevada,let me guess,everyone 82% of the people in America distrust, opposes, and is angered by Harry Reid. Yet it seems like 90% of the Suns readers, not only like him and his tax and burn policys, but rant and rave about Sue Lowden, or anyone else that has commen since solutions.Bartering isn't the best solution to health care, but give her a break. You better come up with something better than Hate mongering. Most of America is freighten by where Reid and company has taken us.I deal every day with foreign businesses. They are scared to death that we are heading towards Socialism. They should know, most of them live under socialism and do not like it.Their health care sucks, their government controls most of their industries.
Johnnie needs a return to school. Please, PAY ATTENTION this tiem, jhnny.
Suuuuuuueeeey!!!!!!!!!!!
So Johnny, What are these countries that are so afraid of American socialism that you speak of?
Please edumacate us.
Palin's used Canadian Health-care system and said it was good.
Private sector kitchen table Women's health care was available in Hoboken, NJ.
Now we have the dictionary Liberals. Actually they consider themselves to be "smarter" then others and like to remind their fellow man that they are the Liberal Elitists...
Sue Lowden continues to try and justify her position on Healthcare (i.e. bartering). Yes there are people who barter with their doctors currently. But for the few that have something a doctor wants --great. But look at the facts:
1) There are 15-20 million uninsured people in the U.S. Most would fall in one of three categories a) college students, elderly, etc. who choose not or can't afford to have insurance b) people who are out of work or cannot afford health insurance c) illegal immigrants
2) There may be a small number living in rural communities that can barter but reality is that is a very small number. Those living in metro areas (Chicago, San Francisco, Reno) would likely not see much "trade for medical" going on. And once a doctor's car is fixed, their house is painted and their horse is fed -- what then? How do the rest of the millions make it work?
3) The way bartering would work is to negotiate a lesser fee by paying cash. A woman last week in the LVRJ said she was able to negotiate a $1500 MRI down to $550 by paying cash. Look at the three groups listed above. Which of those generally has $550 lying around to hand over to the doctor?
4) Now I pay $550 for the MRI. What a bargain. But the MRI shows I need surgery. How do I continue to pay for the doctor, hospital, rehabilitation, medication, "".?
5) No one said bartering cannot work at all. The point is it will help very few. There needs to be a REAL healthcare plan put forward.
6) See Danny Tarkanian's plan at www.tark2010.org
Better a liberal elitist than a chickenhawk. That's just commen since.
I appreciate Sue Lowden's sentiment about bartering -- it's a comforting, old-fashioned notion, but it disappeared a few generations ago. Has Ms Lowden tried to barter with a doctor? Does she know you can't even pay cash to some Las Vegas doctors? A computer glitch recently removed me from the insurance system and my doctor's office refused service because I was supposedly uninsured. I offered to pay cash, since I had waited 8 weeks for the appointment. Still refused. The insurer wouldn't allow it.
And some (misguided) Las Vegans prefer rationed care by insurance companies? I suspect the people who oppose universal health care are the ones already receiving government aid -- through Medicare. Sorry, Ms Lowden, but even cold, hard cash is not good enough in our broken health care system.
As I was once told as a child "If at first you don't fricasse, fry, fry a hen."
okay, bigdon, that is absolute brandy.
What was that all about there poly? I don't get it.
"Republicans are just commen since FREAKS!!!!"
Please give me a clue. You must have me on your mind...
"3) The way bartering would work is to negotiate a lesser fee by paying cash. A woman last week in the LVRJ said she was able to negotiate a $1500 MRI down to $550 by paying cash. Look at the three groups listed above. Which of those generally has $550 lying around to hand over to the doctor?"
If they were really willing to take $550 cash why bill the insurance company $1500?
$1500 dollars is cheap compared to the $3200 my insurance was billed for a MRI..How come prices are so differing??? I doubt there are many physicians out there that would allow this across the board..Doctors have to pay staff and thats where alot of the cost come in to play. How about a biopsy? The testing alone is in the thousands. Is a doctor willing to cut those costs down a third?? I think not..
Ms. Lowden, The Anti-Labor, Anti-Health Care candidate. My question is, do you want us to believe that you were amoung the less fortunate when you were growing up?(Bull). Also, what if a person has nothing to barter with, is chronically ill, with a life threatening illness. What would Ms. Lowden do?
Her comments have made the late night comedians far more entertaining. If would be a lot funnier, though if she were running for the Senate in another state.
BTW, People of Nevada are not frightened (or freightened"weighted with cargo??) of Harry Reid or scared of anything. Harry is a very moderate to conservative Democrat -- he is certainly not a liberal. If the fear mongers out there paid attention to detail and actually studied the issues they would know this.
Is Sue Lowden still 10 percentage points ahead of Chicken Harry???
The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of likely voters in Nevada shows Harry Reid earning 39% to 41% support of Nevada vote3rs.
Sue Lowden earns 52% of the vote to Reid's 39%.
So I guess that Chicken Harry did not get a bump out of his chicken attacks against Sue Lowden...
Yay, more never-was "small town community" fantasy from the point woman for Nevada's laughing stock status.
Nevada Standards for State Senator:
* look good in short skirt, ~$50 mil in stocks, treasuries
* able to barter ham and lamb and salmon for CT scans
* responsive to community needs
* onions fer bunions
* duck for luck
* chickens fer checkups
* your vote for a ----
Hey airweare...
I am not sure how Harry would look in a short skirt, but for a couple of votes I bet he would probably wear one...
Lowden is out of touch with every aspect of American society. She is a damn liar who has made a fool of herself and her mother never bartered for anything. Her biggest accomplishment is crawling out of the lounges of Las Vegas and marrying big money. She knows nothing of the average Nevadan and could care less. She has fired many hard working people just to make a bonus. A more repulsive and despicable person there is not.
Anyone out there know the details surrounding the death of Lowden's 17 year old son a few years ago. I googled it, but details are vague. He apparently had a drug and alcohol problem and the death was called a "choking" accident.
To loose such a young child to drug and alcohol prblems is tragic in so many ways.
Thanks