Nurses Association Fires Back At Assembly Speaker Following Single-Payer Criticism
Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon originally stoked the California Nurses Association's ire when he shelved single-payer legislation over the summer. When asked two weeks ago if he was going to reconsider it, he responded that the sponsors had don't nothing but sit on their hands for the past few months. In a tweet, executive director RoseAnn DeMoro blasted “corporate Democrat” Rendon for “pushing alternative facts.”
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Single Payer Sponsors ‘Sat On Their Hands,’ Rendon Says
Time has not healed all wounds between Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon and the California Nurses Association. Rendon, a Paramount Democrat, infuriated the nurses last June when he abruptly shelved Senate Bill 562, the measure they sponsored to create a government-run universal health care system in California, calling it “woefully incomplete.” (Koseff, 1/17)