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The first time mailings from Trinidad Navarro and Bryan Townsend.
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Trinidad Navarro:
Of all the fines levied against him, how much will Donald Trump actually pay?
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I’ve gotten a ton of these this cycle and they all look and read like they’re from the same template and copy writer. Very old school and quite dull. No revolution here. Same old. Is there not more than one strategist, designer, writer and printer in Delaware?
Really liked the Townsend mailer. Not afraid to talk about ‘bold, progressive change’ right upfront. With specifics about what he’s done and what he proposes to do.
The Navarro mailer was real disappointing, IMHO. Next to no substance at all. I still plan to vote for him, if only b/c his opponent is KWS. But that was as vanilla a piece as one could put out.
What else can Trini say? “Gordon-approved”?
“Bryan supported legislation increasing access to affordable care through telemedicine and by allowing nurses with advanced training to provide specific patient care previously reserved for higher-priced doctors.”
“higher-priced doctors”. Really?????……….This is on Bryan’s website: CLUELESS!!! The bulk of Dr’s pay is based on fee-for-service. It’s not the Dr’s that make their rates; A fee schedule is a complete listing of fees used by Medicare to pay doctors or other providers/suppliers.! People who are running for office NEED to educate themselves, BEFORE the want to represent others!!!!
Of course doctors are higher-priced. Any time you shift work to another practitioner you are saving money. Educate yourself.
@the other anon: You might want to do some self-education. Providers are moving towards VBP (value-based purchasing) and bundled payments for services. Fee-for-service has been shown the door and is now being ever so gently nudged towards it.
Hospitals and health systems are in the process of migrating towards new VBP and bundled payment systems, incentivized by the ACA, and yes even Medicare/Medicaid are headed that way. APRNs and PA-Cs are increasingly becoming the standard first-line of patient care.
So yeah, Townsend said it right.
Navarro should just put “I’m not Karen Weldin-Stewart” on his marketing materials (a la Christine O’Donnell’s “I’m not a witch”).
@ Brian, “You might want to do some self-education.” Back at you! VBP is more hospital and large practice focused, look it up!
According to the AMA 60.7% are practices smaller than 10 physicians in a group. In 2015, VBP (is more hospital based) applied to groups of 100 or more, 2016 it will apply to 10 EP’s or more.
Bottom line, go to the Center for Quality and Healthcare Reform, it’s a good read!
You are making a blanket statement, as Townsend did. NOT, knowing the facts! The same that Townsend did with the UofD incident!
Karen Weldin Stewart will be fraudulently reinstalled just like in 2012. Voters have very little to do with it. It’s the Delaware Way.
@other anon. “You are making a blanket statement, as Townsend did. NOT, knowing the facts!” Partially correct. I did make a blanket statement, but I also am aware of facts. VBP and bundling are creeping in and replacing FFS reimbursement models (at all levels of care, not just hospitals). They may not replace FFS entirely (it wouldn’t necessarily make sense for independent or small physician practices to migrate away from FFS.) but the shift has already begun.
The term “continuum of care” is increasingly being used to describe the future of healthcare. It involves the coordination of multiple specialty physicians and primary care providers (including pharmacy, PT/OT, laboratory, etc) in delivering care to their patients. The bundled payments would apply to this coordination of care, rather than have each individual provider submit itemized service lists for reimbursement.
Political mailers aren’t necessarily the place for detailed policy descriptions. So the depth of statement Townsend made is about what I’d expect to see in a mailer like that.
I had heard Navarro was either divorced or separated? I see a really nice family photo on the mailer. Anybody know the truth on that issue? I don’t really care, but since he’s pushing the photo, I’d thought I’d inquire…
“Karen Weldin Stewart will be fraudulently reinstalled just like in 2012. Voters have very little to do with it. It’s the Delaware Way.”
When you have a bunch of dopes in the voting booths, fraud is unnecessary. I think Delaware has what it takes without fraud entering the picture.
The picture on Trinidad Navarro’s statewide mailing is of him and his wife Melissa and his children. There are other pictures on other mailings. And @Chris, if you didn’t care, why did you bring it up?
Because I am trying to learn more about the candidates before the primary. I do not know a lot about the Sheriff, and am leaning toward voting for him Sept 13. Appreciate the information. I knew Bryan Townsend recently got married to his wife Liliana who is on his mailer, so I did not inquire about that. Chill out dude.
@anonymous:
Dopes voting for a dope will put Stewart in office for a third term. She, McDowell, her overpaid no-show cronies, most of the insurance companies she’s never regulated, and various other bought and paid for sycophants will be like pigs in shit for another four years. Unbelievable.
Noticed there is no union bug on Townsends’s lit piece.
Good observation. But I am still voting for the guy. Townsend is by far the best candidate of those running. He will make it up when they get $15 min wage passed. Ha ha !!
Tim,
We would never consider using a non-union printer.
We used Mercantile Press for this mail piece. They are a Wilmington based union shop that has worked with a number of local Democratic candidates over the years. They made a mistake and inadvertently omitted the union bug. They sent a letter of apology which we then shared with Delaware union leaders.
If you have any questions, don’t hesitate to email me directly at Boyle@bryantownsend.com
Sincerely,
Brian Boyle
Campaign Manager
Townsend for Congress
PS to anonymous:
Organizing phony straw men primary opponents to syphon off votes so the real opponent loses and Stewart wins by a tiny margin is fraud and illegal as hell. Ask Mitch Crane how he liked it in 2012. This year is a rerun of the same thing.
@anonymous, thank you for reminding me, but believe me, I do not forget. It was not illegal to recruit “straw men” in 2012 in order to dilute the ant-KWS vote. What was illegal is offering them a job to not drop out; and it is immoral to not give them that job. There are no such candidates this year. The race for Insurance Commissioner is between just two people- the person with a high degree of integrity who believes the main responsibility of the insurance commissioner is protecting the insurance consumer, -vs- the incumbent who revels in first class travel around the world, paid for by insurance companies, who believe the main responsibility of the insurance commissioner is guaranteeing the solvency of insurance companies (hence the approval of rate increases and buying the fiction that “Blue Cross Blue Shield of Delaware will be insolvent in six years (if its merger with Highmark is not approved)”. The choice is clear.
I’m gratified that Delaware has a political blog with commenters that would notice a missing union bug.
Mitch,
Very well put. Trini is the best and only option for Insurance Commissioner. His motivation is to protect Delawareans, not collect a payday from the insurance companies. I see him gaining traction everywhere I look, however, as most of you are, I am stuck in the political bubble. I hope the average voter can see the difference between Trini and the incumbent. It is stark and drastic.
Isn’t there a Republican running for IC?
To the Navarro campaign — This past Saturday, I received two of the exact same mailer and both were addressed to me.
Since those mailers are expensive, and you also had to pay a company to generate the mailing list, etc., I suggest you find out how many duplicate mailers were sent, and get that money back from whichever firm wasted all of that cash.
My suggestion, anyway.
While I’m inclined to vote for Navarro, I have yet to see anything from him to support the argument that he is ‘the person with a high degree of integrity who believes the main responsibility of the insurance commissioner is protecting the insurance consumer.”
KWS sucks but, as far as I have seen so far, Navarro is an ambitious politician with next to no knowledge of insurance who has yet to display to me, at least, that he possesses a ‘high degree of integrity’. God, I hate the campaign season when it comes to hyperbole on behalf of favored candidates.
@ El Som:
Everything you list in your second paragraph as Navarro’s shortcomings was also among the countless shortcomings of kws in the run up to the ’08 election. That didn’t stop her from getting herself elected and reelected thanks to the political connections she built up since 1989, and she’s only gotten worse. Navarro seems like a straight up guy and, unlike kws, devoid of any sleaze. After 8 awful years of her pursuit of personal gain and self-aggrandizement instead of doing her job, Delawareans are tired of it. They deserve better. Navarro is better, but then, so is probably anyone else at his point.
You’re probably right. Which is why I’ll probably why I’ll vote for him. But holding him up as some sort of demigod of moral rectitude strikes me as overstating the case for him. The best argument for his election is: He’s not KWS.
El Som-my sincerest response to your concern is that I came within 1100 votes of winning in 2012 and that she has been even less a consumer watchdog than I said she was then. If I did not believe that Trini would surround himself with experts who will carry out a pro-consumer program; if I did not believe he is a man of high integrity; I would not be writing this post at 7:30am. I would be in my car driving up to NCC to knock on doors, something I did not do enough in 2012-and I would be a candidate myself.
Mitch–Despite the failings of your campaign, you demonstrated that you KNEW the issues facing the office inside and out. You had worked there with Matt Denn. You had a clear vision of what you intended the office to be.
The best that you can muster for Navarro is that he ‘would surround himself with experts who will carry out a pro-consumer program’. I’m guessing that you think that one of them will be you.
Maybe he will. Which is why I’ll vote for him. But let’s not oversell this guy. We don’t know, based on his background, that he’s likely to be the second coming of Matt Denn.
El Som- I am not looking for a job, passed that point.
I have known Trini since he ran for Sheriff in 2010 and Stonewall endorsed him (I was president of BGDSD at the time). We worked closely together then and more so when I decided to run for IC in 2011. I spend most every Friday with Trini as he took me to senior centers for his weekly visits. I watch how he interacted with the seniors and how they responded to him. We spent alot of time together and had alot of conversations. I believe I have a good sense of what he thinks and of his character. I see how he treats people and how they feel around him-from those seniors to his staff at the Sheriff’s office in Wilmington.
When John and I drove to WIlmington to have our civil union converted to marriage, he made time to be with us.
I learned in my years on the bench how to read people. I have made few mistakes in that regard. I know Trini’s character. I know where he is strong and where he is not. He knows that about himself. Most politicians refuse to admit any weaknesses or faults. He is not one of them.
Those are the important qualifications to me.