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January 29, 2007

Walker Not Walking the Christian Line

Knowing that the man who heads up FreedomWorks, Russ Walker, is a devout Christian, I am certain his testimony in opposition to the Healthy Kids Plan on Friday must have been misunderstood. Walker says he opposes the plan to use cigarette taxes to pay for children's health insurance because he doesn't think it's fair to target people who smoke cigarettes and leave other unhealthy activities alone. It sounds to me as if he is advocating for sin taxes on all unhealthy activities to pay for children's health insurance. What a wonderful idea! We'll have plenty of money for the effort that way!

What's that you say? That's not what he meant?

Yep, the fact is that Walker, in a wonderful example of Christian principles in action, is heading up a group that has been secretly taking vast amounts of money from Phillip Morris, and as a result he is compelled to make a priority of what is good for Big Tobacco over what is good for Oregon's children. Maybe he misunderstood Jesus's admonishment to "suffer the little children…" and thought it meant "let the little children suffer."

Posted by Becky at January 29, 2007 03:30 PM