No Health Insurance for Fields Campaign Staff
Manhattan Borough President C. Virginia Fields supports giving more New Yorkers health benefits--except if they work for her. Fields is the only candidate for mayor who is not providing insurance to campaign staffers, records show.
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UNHEALTHY SITUATION FOR FIELDS
NY Post
By STEFAN C. FRIEDMAN
July 21, 2005
MANHATTAN Borough President C. Virginia Fields supports giving more New Yorkers health benefits--except if they work for her. Fields is the only candidate for mayor who is not providing insurance to campaign staffers, records show.
"Perhaps Virginia's first step toward giving more New Yorkers health care should be to provide it to her own staff," sniped a source from one rival camp. All of Fields' campaign workers are considered "consultants" and therefore buy their own health coverage.
But Fields wrote an op-ed article last month saying that more must be done on health-care coverage. "Too many New Yorkers lack health-insurance coverage," Fields wrote in the piece calling on the city to use tobacco-suit settlement money for health programs.
"The tens of thousands of New Yorkers who are one health calamity away from economic devastation deserve whatever measures our city government can possibly take."
Fields spokesperson Kirsten Powers said health-care costs are factored into the consultants' fees.
Comments
This woman's campaign seems to have no idea that when they lie, they do such a bad job, it just makes the lying more apparent.
I would not trust Ms. Fields to run a one car parade much less a city. Why do we even bother listenting to this foolish bint?
Posted by: donutsalesman | November 12, 2005 06:11 PM