{"id":6184,"date":"2008-07-16T16:06:50","date_gmt":"2008-07-16T23:06:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=6184"},"modified":"2008-07-17T05:42:42","modified_gmt":"2008-07-17T12:42:42","slug":"dr-ron-pauls-campaign-manager-dies-uninsured-400000-in-debt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=6184","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Ron Paul’s Campaign Manager Dies Uninsured, $400,000 in Debt"},"content":{"rendered":"

Guest blogged by Jon Ponder, Pensito Review<\/a>.<\/i><\/p>\n

As the campaign manager for the presidential bid of Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas), Kent Snyder received a lot of credit for raising $35 million from grassroots supporters, a phenomenal accomplishment for an insurgent campaign.<\/p>\n

But, like 48 million other Americans, Snyder had no health insurance, and when he died from pneumonia on June 26 after a two-month hospital stay, he left medical bills totaling over $400,000. <\/p>\n

It is emblematic of our age that Snyder’s boss, Rep. Paul, is a physician.<\/p>\n

The story comes from the Washington Blade<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Gay staffers from the Paul campaign, some speaking on condition that they not be identified, said they learned about Snyder’s unpaid medical bills from a web site created by his friends that calls on Paul supporters to contribute to a special fund to help Snyder’s family pay the bills, which come mostly from a two-month hospitalization. So far, the site (kentsnyder.com<\/a>) has raised about $32,000.<\/div>\n

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“I can’t believe he didn’t have health insurance,”\u009d said one political activist who read about Snyder’s unpaid medical bills in a story published last month in the Wall Street Journal. “I can’t believe that Ron Paul didn’t give him health insurance,”\u009d said the activist, who asked not to be identified.<\/p>\n

The Journal story did not identify Snyder as gay; a Washington Post obituary reported Snyder died of viral pneumonia but did not mention his sexual orientation.<\/p>\n

Craig Max, a D.C. gay Republican activist who sought to become a Ron Paul delegate to the Republican National Convention, said news of Snyder’s death and his lack of health insurance has triggered a behind-the-scenes debate among Paul supporters and libertarian activists over whether or not the Paul campaign should have provided health insurance to its staff. <\/p><\/div>\n

H\/t: Pam’s House Blend<\/a><\/h1>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Guest blogged by Jon Ponder, Pensito Review. As the campaign manager for the presidential bid of Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas), Kent Snyder received a lot of credit for raising $35 million from grassroots supporters, a phenomenal accomplishment for an insurgent campaign. But, like 48 million other Americans, Snyder had no health insurance, and when he […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":75,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[122,300],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-6184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election-2008","category-republicans"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/75"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6184\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6184"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=6184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}