![]() ![]() Walker’s comments about everything from diabetes to air quality have raised eyebrows, and he has generated headlines for assorted scandals, including past violent episodes and recent allegations that the anti-abortion candidate paid for at least one woman’s abortion. If the moment highlighted that Walker does not understand a common health ailment, one that is especially ubiquitous in the South, it also represented a central critique of Walker’s candidacy in general: that he does not care to understand many of the topics-health care, housing, food security, the economy-on which he’d be responsible for legislating as a US Senator. I’m offended for him to come tell me to eat better.” I’m on medicine, but my medicine won’t allow me to lose weight. “I do 10,000 steps a day,” said Dixon, who is diabetic. ![]() Certain types can be solely based on genetic factors or random bad luck, and lots of diabetics depend on insulin to survive-even if they eat incredibly healthy. In response to a comment Warnock made about a measure in the recently passed Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) that lowers insulin prices, Walker, who opposed that bill, erroneously claimed that “unless you are eating right,” insulin “does no good.”įootball coaches Gary Phillips, Curtis Dixon (far left), Tommy Jordan, James Usher, and Jimmy Moore from the 1980 Johnson County High School Yearbook.Ībby Vesoulis/Harlie Fulford Memorial Libraryĭiabetes, which affects 37 million Americans (and, disproportionately, Black Americans), can have little to do with eating habits. Raphael Warnock merely confirmed Dixon’s misgivings. Walker’s performance during his October 14 debate against incumbent Democratic Sen. “We don’t need a celebrity, because we’re at the point where we’re about to lose our democracy.” The sleepy southern hamlet is where Curtis Dixon, now 67, taught GOP Senate nominee Herschel Walker social studies, coached him in football, and drove him to and from practice at Johnson County High School.īut from the front porch of his craftsman ranch home in Wrightsville, Dixon told me he is not supporting the candidacy of the onetime star athlete who helped the Johnson County High School Trojans bring home the state championship football title in 1979, won the 1982 Heisman trophy as a standout running back at the University of Georgia (UGA), and played 12 seasons in the NFL. One hundred and seventeen miles Northwest of Savannah, nestled between fields of cotton and grazing livestock, sits the majority-Black town of Wrightsville, Georgia (population: 3,638). Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |