Jon Lovett
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15,055 appearances
44 recordings
6 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard 8 Sep
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That's just so, so frustrating.
But look, I can just tell you what we've done here.
I was a Democratic governor for eight years.
I had a Republican legislature for eight years.
And yes, I vetoed a lot of bad legislation and we fought over a lot of things.
But I found ways to work with them on recruiting good paying jobs to our state, to getting paid parental leave, to passing a law to get our power sector to carbon zero by 2050.
And finally, got a Republican legislature in a Southern state to expand Medicaid.
which has made a real difference.
And we did that by getting their constituents in these red rural counties to lobby them for it.
Because when I would use my contacts with sheriffs in some of these counties, when I served as attorney general, and many of them would complain to me that essentially that a lot of people in their jail were struggling and needed healthcare.
And so they understood that Medicaid expansion would bring more help to their county with medical services and would help keep their rural hospitals open.
And when you have a tough on crime Republican sheriff walk in the halls lobbying for Medicaid expansion,
it's very effective and so we were able to work together on a common goal to get health care and these red rural counties have have benefited really more than anybody else here 730 000 people in counting now have health care in north carolina and there are ways to work together we saw it on the housing bill in washington we've got to have more people who are willing to sit down at the table even if they have disparate
opinions, when you look at goals, often our goals are shared, even if we are on opposite ends politically.
We want a good education for our kids.
We want a good paying job.
We want
clean air and water we want quality health care we all want the same things and we have to be willing to sit down at the table and find ways forwards find a way to achieve consensus i did that as governor time and time again i want to do that in washington and i believe that
Washington could use a dose of North Carolina common sense.
So I'm ready to come and try and provide that, not only from a governor, attorney general perspective, a state legislator perspective, but I practiced law for 18 years and was a managing partner of my small firm for a while.
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