News of the Weird
By now you’ve heard that the daughter of Democratic Senator Joe Minchin is the CEO of the company raising the price of Epi-Pens to outrageous amounts.
Her name is Heather Bresch and shame on her. More shame on her daddy.
Mylan employees and the company’s PAC contributed a total of $60,750 to Manchin between 2011 and 2016, according to the Center for Responsive Politics.
This isn’t the first time a business decision by Mylan has proved awkward for Manchin. In 2014, through a deal with Abbott Laboratories, the company was able to incorporate in the Netherlands — a move that let it lower its tax bill through what is known as an inversion.
Not only that, but the executives of the company that owns Epi-Pens gave themselves big fat raises.
And, of course that’s not all. Minchin’s daughter a few other skeletons in her closet.
A 2008 inquiry found Bresch didn’t complete the coursework for her MBA granted by West Virginia University. The school had received a $20 million donation from Mylan chairman Milan Puskar in 2003.
Several of the university administrators resigned in the aftermath, including president Mike Garrison. The former Mylan consultant and lobbyist had gone to high school with Bresch, the daughter of West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin, and was a longtime family friend.
The proverbial Pandora’s box is open and I’d be willing to bet that the price of the Epi-Pen goes down and Minchin finds that he needs to spend more time with his family.
Thanks to everybody for the heads up.
“No comment” because there is nothing to say, it’s so awful. They will get away with this.
1Minchin? Manchin? Do they have a chin at all?
2One of the arguments for the existence of God is the ‘Argument from Design’. The easiest way to refute this argument is to ask: “What was Joe Manchin designed for?”
3Beg pardon, could this be Joe Manchin’s daughter, whom he is now sort of disavowing?
4Sounds like he either a) should have spent more time with his family than he did, or b) it wasn’t quality time, didn’t do any good, and/or c) the apples didn’t land far from the tree! “-But you have got to vote for that crappy lizard because otherwise the wrong lizard might get in! (-with apologies to Douglas Adams. Insert teeth grinding here)
5The price gouging by Big Pharma is unconscionable and has to be addressed right way. Of course Repuglicans won’t cooperate and Dem’s like Manchin need to go or be shamed into doing the right thing. As for his daughter’s convenient conscience, seems the old man passed that on to her.
6Manchin’s name is misspelled in the second line.
7There are times when I think the country needs a great shortening of a lot of people.
8Minchin or Manchin .. we all know who she is talking about. It was misspelled in 3 places, but who’s counting? 🙂
Greed over care … SMDH
9Manchin sounds far more Republican than Democratic! He must be so proud of his super-rich spoiled brat daughter /snark. I would be embarrassed if any of my children profited so proudly off a life-saving medicine that most people can no longer afford.
10Joe, that same Munchkin who thinks he’s a great constituent advocate for allowing coal companies to use and abuse them for greater profits. No clean water and air for West Virginia. And job safety, fuhgeddaboudit. Joe has their back in the same time honored tradition as Lucrezia Borgia. If President Obama has time in his remaining months in office, maybe he can find something suitable for Joe like his did that blue dog disaster Max Baucus.
Not a surprise that Joe’s daughter is a heartless pharma moll.
11Is this lovely girl single? I believe Martin Shkreli may be available.
In 5-10 or so.
12Several good cartoons about these scum but this was the best I’ve seen:
http://www.gocomics.com/jimmorin/2016/08/24
Except it’s more likely to be “Your money or your CHILD’S life.”
13Heather Bretch should be tarred and feathered along with every other greedy big pharma CEOs. I happen to be one of the people who can die without an EpiPen. Raising the price to $300 is going to price them out of the reach of many. Including me. So how about suing a Bretch for wrongful death each and every time one of us dies. And since companies are “people” big pharma gets sued too. For billions each. Make these self centered, greedy, selfish horrors pay the only thing they value – money.
14I know the cost of college has gone through the roof, but $20 million for an MBA? That’s pretty steep.
15It would probably have been much cheaper to bribe the individual professors instead.
Greed became fashionable 35 years ago, when the first of the Leo Straussians made their way into at least 2 of the 3 branches of government…blue or red, this is disgraceful behavior.
16God, I hate it when it’s one of ours. And yeah, Joe is one of the bluest Dogs out there.
Though shouldn’t they really be called Red Dogs, because they vote like a bunch of DINO Repub’s?
BTW, they should take a lesson from natural history: DINOs Go Extinct.
17As for spending more time with his family – – that ship done sailed already. Isn’t this the guy who’s been helping Big Coal line its pockets for a while now? From the look of things, Daddy’s little girl learned well during all that family time.
18“Manchin sounds far more Republican than Democratic!”
that might well be because he is. the only reason he hasn’t been hung up in his locker by his underwear, is because the D’s need him. he’s Joe Lieberman’s evil twin, “skippy” Joe.
19Those administrators at West Virginia U who granted Ms. Bresch her MBA got paid by the academic term instead of the hour but the principle is the same.
20Not a Manchin fan, but the one good thing that Blue Dogs do is provide head count. The party that has control in the Senate or House has a lot of power and control is determined by head count.
Someday I hope the Blue Dogs can be replaced by progressives, but in a lot of state we are not there yet.
21A pox—and a Congressional investigation—on both their houses.
22Greed doesn’t recognize political parties. I guess for the truly greedy, enough is never enough. It’s simply sickening and disgraceful every time.
23Wow! A list of sins! One out of many that reverberates with me is the way she sluiced herself into an MBA she did not really deserve. Was once myself on the MBA track but the general attitude of the guys in the program turned me off totally! All they wanted was an overpaid easy job that would allow them to buy an outrageously expensive sport-type car on their lunch hour. As for daddy Joe, yes, we all know that she is a full grown adult but you can do a lot to turn this around – and her!
24It gets better. It seems Daddy was instrumental in getting a bill passed to require schools to carry the Epipen.
25http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2016-08-24/the-senator-s-daughter-who-raised-prices-on-anti-allergy-epipen
Manchin has been able to straddle the fence for a long time, being courted by desperate Dems while playing footsie with the GOP, including getting an A rating from the NRA.
Manchin’s schtick is that WV Dems are legacy Democrats, meaning they’ve kept the party in the family for generations, possibly stretching back to the Coal Wars in the 19 teens and early twenties. They are Democrats in the same way that anti-gay clerk Kim Davis was a Democrat, in Rowan County, KY, a mere 45-minute drive from the WV border.
She was a Democrat until she went to jail rather than act like a Democrat.
So too with Manchin. cpinva and others are correct – Blue Dogs like Manchin keep their seats on the Blue side because the Dems need them – for now.
As soon as enough legacy Dems re-register as R – and many of them have, this cycle, in order to vote for Trump in the primaries – Manchin and his ilk will follow suit.
26So, in her greed, she will have hopefully ruined her name and career and also that of her father. Though I have disagreed with him on some issues, I had no idea the family had such awful ethics.
27I just read on fark.com that the Epipen was developed and paid for by the Defense Dept. It is therefore the property of the USA.
Fark these people.
28if she is careful, she could retire and live on her last year salary of 16 million……
29No shame, no shame for scumballs like her. Law and order snacilbupeR like to go on about those terrible negroes in the cities as murderous sociopaths. Some of them probably are, and may kill a few people in their lifetimes. That’s terrible, no question.
The real murderous sociopaths are people like the little Manchin, Shkreli, Scumpf, LaPierre and other such vermin. The suffering they cause hits hundreds of thousands or more. Now those are some real sick bastards.
30Lunargent: Manchin is NOT one of “ours”. He’s a dixicrat through and through. And his spawn is a Republicaponzi.
31For an in depth take on this you may want to read the latest from Jim Wright at
32http://www.stonekettle.com/2016/08/the-latter-days-of-better-nation-part-iv.html
Just a thought.