State Rep. Caught On Camera Admitting She Used Her Vote To Exact Personal Revenge
A representative for Price did not immediately respond to PEOPLE’s request for comment.
Despite Price’s vote, the proposed legislation passed through the state’s House of Representatives committee meeting and currently awaits further debate, according to the Atlanta Journal Constitution.
Exclusive:Elevator video shows Rep. Betty Price saying she voted against the Distracted Driving bill to cause trouble, protest colleagues for voting against her. She’s talking to the widow of a man killed by a distracted driver .And she doesn’t know she’s being recorded. @wsbtv 6 pic.twitter.com/fWx5h1CtJZ
— Nicole Carr (@NicoleCarrWSB) February 23, 2018
The Georgia lawmaker, whose husband Tom Price was forced to resign from his position as Donald Trump‘s Health and Human Services Secretary after he was caught using taxpayer money to fly on chartered planes, had previously come under fire for her remarks about quarantining people with HIV to stop the spread of the disease.
During a committee meeting on the barriers to health care access in October 2017, Price asked, “What are we legally able to do? I don’t want to say the quarantine word, but I guess I just said it.”
“It seems to me it’s almost frightening the number of people who are living that are potentially carriers, well they are carriers, with the potential to spread, whereas in the past they died more readily and then at that point they are not posing a risk,” she controversially went on to add.
