Harris chief of staff Tina Flournoy fought to shield Big Tobacco from liability as Philip Morris exec: memos
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Vice President Kamala Harris' chief of staff, Tina Flournoy, worked to shield Big Tobacco companies from liability for the public health costs resulting from their products, documents reviewed by Fox News show.
A 1996 memo from Flournoy, which is featured in the University of California, San Francisco's Truth Tobacco Industry Documents Library, laid out her "goals for 1996." "Work with USA to kill medicaid liability bills as they arise – at the moment, dealing with one in MD. Work with USA to prevent additional medicaid liability suits from being filed," Flournoy wrote. "Work with the [Washington Relations Office] to continue to work on [legislation] at the federal level to fix the medicaid liability problem."
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