*sigh*...politicsiceph03nixFebruary 10 2006, 18:51:09 UTC
Don't you just love re-election season. everyone wants to get their name out and their not too particular about how. unfortunately games have become a catch phrase that everyone can use.
Yee Camp Responds to Opponent's Swipe at Video Game Legislation
Defending your ignorance about video game it hot these days in politics.
Last week GamePolitics reported on remarks made by 77-year-old Lou Papan, who is campaigning against Leland Yee for a spot in the California State Senate.
Lou Papan was (and still is) right.
Papan took a shot at Yee's highly-publicized game legislation, telling the San Mateo Daily Journal, "Quite frankly, video games aren't the most pressing issue in Sacramento right now."
No need to repeat myself.
Yee spokesman Adam Keigwin was quick to respond to Papan's attack on Yee's relevance, telling GamePolitics, "Clearly, Assemblymember Yee has been working on a number of issues besides protecting children from violent video games. In fact, he has passed 52 pieces of legislation in just 3 years, of which 38 have been chaptered into law under Governors Schwarzenegger and Davis."
Than how come he made video games a priority?
"These bills range from strengthening the foster care system to improving the
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The only thing this guy is an idiot on is video games. This guy needs video game education in order to truly survive against Lou Papan's arguments.
No, he's an idiot in plenty of other areas, for exmaple, the following about doctors and insurance, if I'm reading it right, is bullshit:
"In addition, Assemblyman Yee is now authoring legislation to end the unfair practice of billing patients instead of insurance companies,"The problem isn't with the doctors offices, it's with the insurance companies. When a doctors office agrees to take a particular insurance, they're signing a contract that says they'll take that companies rates for reimbursment. The rates are essentially never 100% of what's charged, but doctors do this anyways to bring in patients. And then you consider that Medicare pays something like 30 cents on the dollar, that a lot of HMOs pay worse than that, and that the good ones that pay most or all are few and far between. And then there are the companies that like to argue with the doctor on whether or not a covered
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I live in California and even though I think video game legislation is a waste of time, Leland Yee has done a multitude of great things for the state. I'd be disappointed if he got replaced.
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Defending your ignorance about video game it hot these days in politics.
Last week GamePolitics reported on remarks made by 77-year-old Lou Papan, who is campaigning against Leland Yee for a spot in the California State Senate.
Lou Papan was (and still is) right.
Papan took a shot at Yee's highly-publicized game legislation, telling the San Mateo Daily Journal, "Quite frankly, video games aren't the most pressing issue in Sacramento right now."
No need to repeat myself.
Yee spokesman Adam Keigwin was quick to respond to Papan's attack on Yee's relevance, telling GamePolitics, "Clearly, Assemblymember Yee has been working on a number of issues besides protecting children from violent video games. In fact, he has passed 52 pieces of legislation in just 3 years, of which 38 have been chaptered into law under Governors Schwarzenegger and Davis."
Than how come he made video games a priority?
"These bills range from strengthening the foster care system to improving the ( ... )
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I agree. Then again, I saw adding sexual orientation to the list of protections in the code of fair campaign practices and there was instant bias.
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No, he's an idiot in plenty of other areas, for exmaple, the following about doctors and insurance, if I'm reading it right, is bullshit:
"In addition, Assemblyman Yee is now authoring legislation to end the unfair practice of billing patients instead of insurance companies,"The problem isn't with the doctors offices, it's with the insurance companies. When a doctors office agrees to take a particular insurance, they're signing a contract that says they'll take that companies rates for reimbursment. The rates are essentially never 100% of what's charged, but doctors do this anyways to bring in patients. And then you consider that Medicare pays something like 30 cents on the dollar, that a lot of HMOs pay worse than that, and that the good ones that pay most or all are few and far between. And then there are the companies that like to argue with the doctor on whether or not a covered ( ... )
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I guess I like him because he tells boys not to hit women.
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