Hey, David Remnick. Why not start out the interview by asking “How is it that a self-certifying doctor who is really just a political nepo baby & a faux intellectual manages to carry enough weight to get into the pages of the New Yorker?”
Hey, David Remnick! HHow about some Competency Threshold Journalism?
1-Senator Paul, when you entered office, Kentucky was about 22 maternal deaths per 100,000 births. Today it is 34.6 - a roughly 57% increase. Why did Kentucky become markedly more dangerous for mothers during your sixteen years in office?
2-California is now 9.5, and Washington State is 9.7 - both dramatically below Kentucky’s 34.6. Why are other American states able to protect mothers at less than one-third Kentucky’s rate?
3-If Kentucky was already struggling when you arrived and worse when you stayed, what exactly did your sixteen years of Senate incumbency accomplish for mothers and families?
4-What bill did you pass, what funding did you secure, or what oversight did you lead that measurably reduced maternal deaths in Kentucky?
5-Why is Kentucky also trailing countries in the single digits such as Albania 7, Bosnia and Herzegovina 6, and Belarus 2?
6-If your answer is that a senator cannot control state outcomes, then what exactly has the public received from sixteen years of your power besides rhetoric and incumbency?
7-Without the surname, without the inherited political brand, without the family mythology - what measurable performance case remains?
8-Is this public service, or Nomen Pro Merito - the name standing where merit should be?
After first Bush, and now Trump - 16 years of the 21st century! - please, David Remnick, when you’re not at the Vineyard, protect us from this Nomen Pro Merito.
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