Republican Rep. Devin Nunes has fallen out of favor with the Fresno Bee. The news outlet had endorsed Nunes in every campaign since 2002; then, things changed in 2018 when the paper backed Andrew Janz instead for the 22nd district. And now, the paper is endorsing Democratic candidate Phil Arballo. The Bee called Nunes “unworthy” for an endorsement, and we couldn’t agree more.
Arballo’s background, the outlet said, “gives him a keen understanding of the challenges low-income families face in the 22nd District, one of the poorest in the nation. The median household income is under $50,000; California’s median household income is $71,228. He pledges to seek investments in job training to help workers gain skills.”
The Bee notes Arballo was the first in his family to graduate from college, is married with two young children, owns a financial services business, and has grandparents who immigrated from Mexico. “His ethnicity is relevant in a district where 46 percent of the residents are Latino,” the editorial board writes.
Arballo seems to be in stark contrast to Nunes, who has vowed to support universal health care and push for insurance plans that are affordable and do not discriminate against pre-existing conditions. The Bee goes on to say that Arbllo “also wants to work on lowering prescription drug prices. Such values are key in the 22nd District, which has more people relying on government-paid medical assistance than almost anywhere else in the nation. Fifty-two percent of Tulare County residents depend on Medi-Cal; 47 percent of those in Fresno County do so.”
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The paper went on to explain why they do not support Nunes, including his “ongoing defense of President Trump to the detriment of the 22nd District. Nunes would rather appear on Fox News shows than ensure people in Tulare and Fresno counties have clean water, affordable health insurance, and job prospects.”
The news outlet blasted Nunes’s behavior during the House impeachment hearings by the Intelligence Committee, saying that he ‘used his position as ranking minority member to denigrate the investigation as the “Ukraine hoax.”’
“Text messages released by House Democrats as part of the impeachment inquiry showed a key Nunes aide met dozens of times with an associate of Rudy Giuliani, Trump’s attorney, to dig up dirt on Biden,” the Bee wrote.
“It is inconceivable Nunes did not know about those meetings. So his ‘hoax’ claims are shown to be patently false. His initial comments that he did not know Lev Parnas, the Giuliani associate? Those were lies,” the paper said. “His attempts to undermine the Democratic impeachment hearings focused on an anti-Biden effort? Shameful and anti-American tp their core.”
Yeah, we noticed that Nunes lies, too.
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