From our discussion at last night's HD 37 meeting. It does help to make calls to our congressional representatives.
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Sent: Wednesday, January 27, 2010 7:40 AM
Subject: Two Heroes Stand Up
| Stuart -
Great news!
After members from Democracy for America, CREDO Action, and the Progressive Change Campaign Committee made 3,595 calls to Congress since Friday asking House members to publicly support passing a public option through reconciliation, two Healthcare Heroes have stood up to work to make it happen:
Representatives Jared Polis from Colorado and Chellie Pingree from Maine
As we speak, these two fearless Democrats are gathering signatures of other House members on a letter to Senator Harry Reid asking the Majority Leader to use the budget reconciliation process, which only requires 51 Senate votes, to pass a public option.
Your calls are working. Now, we need to back these Healthcare Heroes up and help them find other House members who will sign on. Call your Democratic Representative in the House (if you have one) and Speaker Pelosi and ask them to sign on right now.
CLICK HERE TO MAKE YOUR CALL
It's not just your calls that are working. It's everything we're doing to make this happen. We've hit our goal of over 250,000 signatures on our petition calling for reconciliation. And our poll of MA swing voters was turning heads in Washington all last week.
Last night, the NYTimes broke the story on a new poll we did over the weekend in 10 freshmen Democratic districts to see what effect passing a public option would have on the Democrat's chance for reelection in 2010. Here's what the voters said: FRESHMAN DEMOCRATS FACE TROUBLE IN 2010 IF CONGRESS DOESN'T PASS A PUBLIC OPTION
Polls in 10 frontline freshman districts show:
- 68% of voters want a public health insurance option
- By 5 to 1, voters want their Representative to fight to add the public option over passing the Senate bill
- By 3 to 1, persuadable voters are less likely to vote for the local Democrat if Congress doesn't pass a public option as part of reform
- 55% say Democrats need to do more to fight big corporations
- 56% say Democrats haven't done enough to fulfill Obama's 2008 campaign promises
- 52% of Democrats are less likely to vote in 2010 if Congress doesn't pass public option -- Republicans more likely
If Democrats in Washington don't listen and pass real reform, then freshmen Democrats in tough reelection battles may pay the price at the polls in 2010. We can't let that happen to leaders like Representatives Polis and Pingree. We must back them up and help get other House Democrats on board.
CALL NOW AND ASK HOUSE DEMOCRATS TO SIGN THE POLIS/PINGREE LETTER TODAY
Right now, the fight in Washington over healthcare boils down to two options: full retreat or bold leadership.
We know America wants bold leadership. Let's do everything we can to make sure Democrats in Washington get the message.
-Charles
Charles Chamberlain, Political Director
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