Rep. Larry Pittman (R-Cabarrus) denied a claim that he voted against a Medicaid expansion bill in North Carolina. However, he did say had the bill come to a vote, he would have rejected the proposal. | Stock Photo
Rep. Larry Pittman (R-Cabarrus) denied a claim that he voted against a Medicaid expansion bill in North Carolina. However, he did say had the bill come to a vote, he would have rejected the proposal. | Stock Photo
State Rep. Larry Pittman (R-Cabarrus) recently pushed back against allegations appearing in a mailer in his district that accused him of voting to prevent Medicaid expansion.
“The truth is that the bill to which they refer never came up for a vote,” Pittman wrote on his official campaign Facebook page on Aug. 4. “It was sent to the Rules Committee, of which I am not even a member, and was never heard.”
Without having any contact with the bill in question, Pittman said it was impossible for him to have any role in preventing its hearing or passage. In fact, no one in the General Assembly could have voted either for or against the bill.
However, Pittman said that, given the chance, he would have voted against the bill.
“If we had voted to expand Medicaid, it would have bankrupted the State of North Carolina, as it is doing to other states who did fall for the expansion fantasies of the left,” Pittman posted.
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