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Donald Trump is no longer a sitting president but his allies are still playing an outsize role in this year’s annual Conservative Political Action Conference, widely known as CPAC.
The convening organized by the American Conservative Union culminates Sunday in a speech by the former president himself, Trump’s first public appearance since leaving White House.
Donald Trump Jr. and campaign fundraiser Kimberly Guilfoyle are slated to speak Thursday, while various other campaign aides and administration officials are peppered throughout the convention lineup.
A Friday panel on “unreasonable search and seizures” features former Trump campaign official and National Diversity Coalition for Trump CEO Darrell Scott. The pastor is reportedly under FBI investigation for his role in allegedly usng a now-defunct pro-Trump “dark money” group called the Urban Revitilization Coalition to solicit money from foreign nationals. In 2020, the IRS revo
JACKSON TWP. When former President Donald Trump takes the stage Sunday at the Conservative Political Action Conference, Liberty HealthShare s logo should be on the stage with him.
The Stark County company once again is listed among the featured sponsors for the annual event, billed as the nation s largest gathering of grassroots conservatives. The other two featured sponsors are the American Conservative Union and Fox Nation, a video streaming service affiliated with Fox News.
Liberty HealthShare, a Christian ministry where members pay a monthly fee and share medical expenses, has been a CPAC sponsor since 2016. The cost to be a featured sponsor is $250,000. Last year, Liberty HealthShare said it shared the cost with its marketing partner, Cost Sharing Solutions, also based in Jackson Township.
Jenna Carlesso discusses this story with Connecticut Public Radio s Lori Mack.
Last March, days after returning home from a family trip to Spain, Paloma Munoz’s 4-year-old son started to cough.
He spiked a fever overnight and began feeling short of breath. Alarmed, Munoz found a hospital with drive-up COVID testing and took her son to get swabbed.
When the results came back negative, she was relieved. Then a bill for $270 arrived in the mail.
“I was just speechless,” she recalled.
Her husband had changed jobs a few months earlier, forcing her family to shop for new health insurance. Unable to afford a policy through their employers or elsewhere, Munoz found an advertisement online for a cheaper, non-traditional type of coverage. For $500 a month, she joined Alliance for Shared Health, a religious health care sharing ministry that pools its members’ premiums to pay out some of their medical bills.
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Paloma Munoz said every time she goes to a doctor, she gets a surprise bill. “Sometimes that bill is a big bill, and sometimes 100% of the bill,” Munoz said. “I’m like, so what s the point of me paying you monthly if I still have to pay the entire bill? I feel like I’m throwing out my money here.” | photo by: Yehyun Kim :: ctmirror.org
Last March, days after returning home from a family trip to Spain, Paloma Munoz’s 4-year-old son started to cough.