Agoraphobics Wanted: MoveOn's Virtual March on Congress - Wed. Feb. 24

[janet118]

For everyone who wants to "do something" about the public option and/or health care reform, but doesn't want to leave their house, sign up for MoveOn's "virtual march" and call your Senators on Wednesday, February 24th. I posted this in General Discussion to little effect. I hope it's because everyone already knows about it and signed on. If Senators know there are a lot of people in their districts willing to make enough effort to call them about this issue, maybe it will offset some of the free media the tea partiers get. It's time for the Senate to hear from the rest of us - before it's too late. MoveOn will also send your representatives a fax with your name on it and will let you select a time frame to call in.

MoveOn Virtual March on Washington

As Washington stalls on health care, real people are hurting. To remind Congress voters want them to get the job done on reform, we're holding our biggest day of health care action ever on February 24th. Together, we'll flood Congress with a million messages for real reform.

As politicians fret about the political risks of health care reform instead of fixing our broken system, people are dying. It's time for Congress to stand up to Big Insurance and their conservative allies and get health care reform done, and done right.

That's why I just signed up to join MoveOn's Virtual March for Real Health Care Reform. The goal is to send a million messages to Capitol Hill on Wednesday, February 24, the day before President Obama's big health care summit with members of Congress.

SIGN UP HERE

Oh, goody - I can hardly wait. I get to call Scott Brown.

[mbperrin]

1. Done and thanks!

nt

[patrice]

2. K & R

[lamp_shade]

3. Doing.

[barbtries]

4. i signed up

and added it to my fb

[janet118]

5. I just made my calls to Senators Brown and Kerry . . .

Scott Brown needs to know his constituents want strong, real health care reform. He has shown (in a small way) that he is willing to buck the Republican borg, but he needs to know that in the meeting with Obama tomorrow, he has to sincerely try to improve the health care reform bill and then vote for it, no matter what Republican leaders tell him. He's representing Massachusetts, not Mitch McConnell or their contributors. An independent poll taken immediately after the Massachusetts special election showed that of the 18% of Obama voters who voted for Brown, an overwhelming majority wanted a strong public option in the health care bill.

This is our tea party. Believe it, senators are getting astroturf from the insurance lobby, we have to show them what real constituents sound like. The public option is popular - but it is ignored or disparaged by the media. It's important to by-pass the media and go directly to our so-called representatives to tell them we need serious help out here and we expect them to vote with our best interests in mind, not the insurance industry's.

[EFerrari]

6. Agoraphobia is not funny, honest. And yes, I did the action. n/t