Some of you may have heard about Congresswoman Judy Biggert's (IL-13) straw poll on health care. She put it up on her website Friday asking "Do you support the health care proposal that's in the House right now?" This was accompanied by her usual Friday email newsletter to her supporters where she blathered about "reform, not revolution" and asked people to come give their opinion. I'm sure she was certain that voters from all over would come to her website and tell her we like paying double what the rest of the world pays for the 37th best medical care.

Well it didn't quite work out that way. By the time I saw the poll late Friday afternoon "YES" was winning with 79.1% of the vote. All weekend long "YES" held a double digit lead. Oh there was a time on Saturday where it sank to 42+% and inexplicably "Don't Know/No opinion/What's my name again?" went from 0% to about 20% in a couple of hours, proving I guess you can lead a Republican precinct committeeman to water but you can't make him click on something that's truly not in his best interests like her position on health care reform. 

So anyway I imagine it wasn't a happy start to the week when Judy and her minions came into the office this morning and got a look at the results. The final tally when they yanked it down about 9am Monday was 69.4 for "YES",  21% for "NO" and 9.6% for "What was the question again?"

Biggert bragged all week about another little straw poll she took over phone during her teletown conference call last Monday night but we'd like her to publicize this one. She got  59% of the vote for "NO" on the phone poll from folks who could stand listening to her race baiting, immigrant bashing, weird "England has such awful health care one of my daughters and her family have chosen to live there for 11 years" banter with some of her self deluded sycophants all the way through. At one point a caller had to tell her where she could look up the bill on the net and that the number is HR 3200. I especially liked the part where she complained she didn't have enough time to work on the bill after she admitted that the House was in session, at that moment, working on the bill.

So anyway we'd like folks to call Mrs. Biggert at either (or both) of her offices, and fax her too, and tell her to support real health care reform with a public option strong enough to get her health insurance lobbyist daughter fired. If you want to give her receptionist apoplexy say the words "single payer". And while you're at it ask her real nicely to put the results of the website straw poll back up so everybody can see just how out of touch she really is. You can reach her here:

The Honorable Judy Biggert
Washington, DC Office
1034 Longworth House Office Building
Washington, DC 20515
Phone: 202-225-3515
Fax: 202-225-9420

District Office
6262 South Route 83, Suite 305
Willowbrook, IL 60527
Phone: 630-655-2052
Fax: 630-655-1061

Thanks for all you do everybody. Let's make sure that "our Judy" as she likes to bill herself gets off to the kind of start she deserves on her health care reform summer vacation.