When I finally got down there what was left
for me to see is a tire track on the curb.
A pile of mud where his truck
was pulled out.
He was told that his medication was
$250 out of pocket to
pay for it. We don't have $250
We never have
$250 extra.
He had problems,
yes,
who doesn't?
We all have problems.
Doesn't mean it's a death sentence or
shouldn't be a death sentence.
He was working out his problems.
He was doing what we were told that we're
supposed to do with these problems.
And that's what I'm saying.
He was doing better.
That went out to 35 followers.
Within a day it had 9000 retweets
and it should because
there's just too much
of this crap going on.
My Twitter feed wasn't just about Danny
after a while.
There were thousands of people that posted
on there horror stories just as bad, some
even worse than Danny's.
Of similar situations with the same
ending result.
People dying for insurance company profits.
Good morning Scott.
That's what they posted on my Twitter feed.
We're sorry about your loss.
Would you please direct message us your
private information.
We'd be happy to talk to you.
I don't want to talk to them.
They killed my son.
So that they can make a profit.
I promised Danny
at his funeral.
I told him I would be on the Senate floor.
I am going to tell those senators myself.
They will look at my face and they will
see that their laws have consequences,
their decisions have consequences.
I rise today to tell the sad story
of Daniel.
Desnoyers
who took his own life
because he did not have
the money to buy
the basic drugs that he needed
for his mental health issues.
I'll tell you I wasn't going to
get political. I was gonna vote again.
I was gonna try to talk people into voting I
wasn't even going to share memes, because
people are gonna laugh at me.
Well they're gonna laugh at me.
Maybe not as much because I got a little bit
of fire behind me now.
My son is gone.
That's my fire.
I don't have anything left of him,
but this fight for him.
How could I not fight for my son?
That's the fire that I need.
I didn't start this fight.
I tweeted this out to 35 people.
This isn't my spirit.
This is Danny spirit.
He got this started and I'm going to fight
it for him.
I'm not gonna stop
Not until my heart stops because
he's part of that.
No, Danny is my fire
and I will continue fighting.