It’s like the guy who lights out across the baseball diamond during a nationally broadcasted game. The results of the game barely get reported, but the misfit running across the field makes national headlines.
So it was in the Georgia Senate today. Sort of. This morning’s debate on a bill to block the expansion of Medicaid has gotten no press that we know of. But the clamor caused by illegally protesting activists from Moral Monday Georgia has already been reported by the New York Times, complete with a photo of protesters being ‘escorted’ out of the upper-story Senate gallery.
Nearly 40 people were arrested for interrupting the Senate proceedings by unfurling a paper banner and shouting “Medicaid Expansion Now!,” among other things.
Moral Monday Georgia is a mostly liberal activist group that has been agitating for their passionate beliefs on various issues throughout the session, on Mondays. Apparently they decided that the final Monday of the General Assembly would be a doozy if they could help it.
We don’t make the analogy to a baseball game out of careless indifference. Medicaid is a serious enough issue that people’s lives can depend on its government largesse.
Our point, as almost always, is a political one. With their dramatics, Moral Monday Georgia – morally or not – has now brought national attention to the issue of Medicaid expansion, or the lack of it, in Georgia.
