{"id":1029,"date":"2008-08-13T23:53:43","date_gmt":"2008-08-14T03:53:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aroundfortwayne.com\/news\/?p=1029"},"modified":"2020-12-06T10:41:37","modified_gmt":"2020-12-06T15:41:37","slug":"jill-long-thompson-visit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aroundfortwayne.com\/news\/2008\/08\/13\/jill-long-thompson-visit\/","title":{"rendered":"Jill Long Thompson Visit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a title=\"Jill Long Thompson after today&#039;s press conference in Fort Wayne.\" rel=\"lightbox[JLT813]\" href=\"https:\/\/www.aroundfortwayne.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/57700.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.aroundfortwayne.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/t57700.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Jill Long Thompson, Indiana Gubernatorial Candidate was in the Fort today.\u00c2\u00a0 She visited Superior Manufacturing on Calhoun Street to pitch her Health Care Proposal.\u00c2\u00a0 She picked Superior Manufacturing because it is a prime example of a small business that wants to be able to provide health insurance for it&#8217;s employees, but finds the expense to be prohibitive.\u00c2\u00a0 I&#8217;m not going to go into all the details or questions asked by the various media people present as I&#8217;m sure they&#8217;ll do a much better job than I could ever aspire.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Ben Lank of the Journal Gazette and Bob Caylor with the News-Sentinel were in attendance and asked some questions &#8211; look in tomorrow&#8217;s newspapers for their articles. For me, I&#8217;ll stick to what I do best &#8211; photos.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a title=\"Jill Long Thompson listens to a question during today&#039;s press conference in Fort Wayne.\" rel=\"lightbox[JLT813]\" href=\"https:\/\/www.aroundfortwayne.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/57692.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.aroundfortwayne.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/t57692.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a title=\"To Jill Long Thompson&#039;s right: Superior Manufacturing Vice-President Scott Sanderson, President Gloria Sanderson, Comptroller Terri Parker and Technical Salesman Ron Oesting.\" rel=\"lightbox[JLT813]\" href=\"https:\/\/www.aroundfortwayne.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/57693.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.aroundfortwayne.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/t57693.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a title=\"Jill Long Thompson listens as Dan Jehl asks a question.\" rel=\"lightbox[JLT813]\" href=\"https:\/\/www.aroundfortwayne.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/57696.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.aroundfortwayne.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/t57696.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Related weblinks<\/strong>:<br \/>\nHoosiers For Jill<br \/>\nHealth Care Proposal Press Release<br \/>\n<span class=\"removed_link\" title=\"https:\/\/jill.3cdn.net\/fd7d2063769275902a_bgm6iyihp.pdf\">The Health Care Proposal<\/span><\/p>\n<h3>Related Images:<\/h3>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jill Long Thompson, Indiana Gubernatorial Candidate was in the Fort today.\u00c2\u00a0 She visited Superior Manufacturing on Calhoun Street to pitch her Health Care Proposal.\u00c2\u00a0 She picked Superior Manufacturing because it is a prime example of a small business that wants to be able to provide health insurance for it&#8217;s employees, but finds the expense to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[552,553],"class_list":["post-1029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-happenings","tag-jill-long-thompson","tag-superior-manufacturing"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.3 - 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