“I could not run in a Republican primary because I just couldn’t look myself in the mirror and do it.” Fort Worth Mayor Mattie Parker criticizes her party’s infighting, pushes for Medicaid expansion and defends Texas’ trans kids.
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“I could not run in a Republican primary because I just couldn't look myself in the mirror and do it,” Parker said during an event with Texas Tribune CEO Evan Smith. , Parker said. Obama was in town to attend a funeral for five Dallas law enforcement officers killed in an ambush. Parker, one of the youngest mayors in the country at 38 years old, has been known to buck her party from time to time. She’s particularly an outlier when it comes to expanding Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act — which“I can tell you that right now, in the state of Texas, in Fort Worth, you have families that are without health insurance simply because we have not expanded Medicaid,” Parker said.
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