Joe Lhota Backs Obamacare Delay

[hrmjustin]

By Colin Campbell

Although he condemns his party’s federal representatives for the partial government shutdown currently gripping Washington, Republican mayoral candidate Joe Lhota today endorsed one of their top demands: delaying the individual health care mandate.

“It should be delayed for one year,” Mr. Lhota flatly said this morning in a WNYC radio interview with Brian Lehrer.

“I think there’s so much confusion about the individual mandate right now, both within the administration and outside of the administration,” he argued. “You should not be implementing policy unless you know exactly how it is going to be implemented.”

However, when it comes to the Tea Party-backed goal of completely defunding President Barack Obama’s signature health care legislation, Mr. Lhota said he is “not in that position at all” and blasted both Democrats and Republicans for failing to end their standoff.


Read more at http://politicker.com/2013/10/joe-lhota-backs-obamacare-delay/

[Dawson Leery]

1. With four weeks to go, Joe is losing badly. This is not going to help him.

[hrmjustin]

2. I watched him on NY1 tonight and you got the sense he knows he is going to loose.