GOP lawmakers in Ohio under fire for supporting Medicaid expansion

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GOP lawmakers in Ohio under fire for supporting Medicaid expansion

By Maeve Reston at the LA Times

http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-obamacare-ohio-republicans-20131107,0,554272.story#axzz2kJ1TbDfT

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MONCLOVA TOWNSHIP, Ohio — State Rep. Barbara Sears is the kind of Republican the party would want to highlight these days: a woman and former business owner, fluent in health insurance issues, who has managed to repeatedly win reelection in a district where Republicans and Democrats are almost evenly divided.

But this year, the popular legislator with a strong conservative voting record has found her photo on door hangers throughout her district, pictured as the conductor of the Obamacare train to disaster. Her image has been plastered next to President Obama's on billboards. She has been targeted in a heavy splurge of negative talk radio ads.

It's all part of a campaign against her by Americans for Prosperity, the free-market advocacy group backed by billionaires Charles and David Koch.

The reason: Sears has championed a key element of Obamacare. Her support for the expansion of Medicaid to cover more of the state's poor is also backed by Ohio's Republican Gov. John Kasich and nearly three-quarters of Ohioans, according to an AARP poll.




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