Public Option: Something (Easy) You Can Do
Online petitions are perhaps as effective a means of moving the congressional inertiasaurus as, say, enormous campaign contributions. But rarely are the petition drives set up by actual U.S. Senators calling out to the public to counteract what the Senators describe as "the forces of the status quo.
Senators Durbin, Leahy and Schumer have established a website pithily titled Citizens for Real Healthcare Refore and a Public Option and are soliciting signatures expressing support for a public option. They have already collected over 76,000 signatures. Perhaps you would be willing to add yours? The website is http://citizensforapublicoption.com.
Senators Durbin, Leahy and Schumer have established a website pithily titled Citizens for Real Healthcare Refore and a Public Option and are soliciting signatures expressing support for a public option. They have already collected over 76,000 signatures. Perhaps you would be willing to add yours? The website is http://citizensforapublicoption.com.
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Did you mean to say:
"Online petitions are perhaps NOT as effective . . ." ?
Anyway, thanks for posting this!
July 28, 2009 5:06 PM | Reply | Permalink
cool avitar!
July 28, 2009 9:27 PM | Reply | Permalink
yes, I did mean to say "not." Bad habit.
July 28, 2009 11:48 PM | Reply | Permalink
Also don't forget to call, phone, fax your reps.
Obama's site has a tool for calling if you are signed up:
http://my.barackobama.com/page/content/health-care-action-center/?source=feature
Call often. They count the number of calls pro and con.
July 28, 2009 7:31 PM | Reply | Permalink
The link to the public option petition site is
http://www.citizensforapublicoption.com/
July 28, 2009 7:46 PM | Reply | Permalink
Subliminality, thanks for the suggestion.
July 28, 2009 8:55 PM | Reply | Permalink
Sub-lim-in-a-bil-i-ty. Sorry! Now I'll remember it.
July 28, 2009 8:57 PM | Reply | Permalink
Thank you for this.
July 29, 2009 8:07 AM | Reply | Permalink
Excellent! Rec'd. Signed, also. And shared on my FaceBook page.
July 29, 2009 12:29 PM | Reply | Permalink
Signed, forwarded. I just wish the petition had been for Single Payer, as the political pain risked is the same, both for feeble legislators and for us.
July 29, 2009 2:45 PM | Reply | Permalink