A judge ordered county officials to remove President Trump's name and make other edits to ballot language for a proposed five-eighths cent sales tax to support the county hospital system. The language will replace "protecting" with "address" regarding Trump administration funding cuts and will replace "President Trump" with "the President." County leaders say the revised language remains substantively identical and will clarify funding needs tied to Medicaid cuts. Legal challenges argued the original wording was misleading and biased. Both sides debated precise phrasing, with Judge Overton questioning whether wordsmithing matches public perception.
Let me put it this way - everyone knows who the President of the United States is and who the president is who signed the law that has cut almost a trillion dollars from Medicaid,
The fact that it says the president instead of President Trump - I don't think anyone will be confused about what's going on and why we're in the situation we're in.
It sort of boggles the mind. I know there are very educated and diligent people in this county ... but in our profession we wordsmith all the time. Is that the way most of the public sees things?
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