Eric Massa Held A Town Hall Meeting Last Night

[Liberalynn]

in Honeoye Falls last night and said he intends to vote against the Health Care Bill as it stands now. Saw him on the news. It Came right out of his own mouth, so its not a lie fabricated by the other side.

This is the message I left him.

Congressman Massa, I was very dissappointed to hear you are going to stand in the way of real health care reform by voting against the health care bill.

I am very dissappointed that you are going to give into the scare tactics of the insurance companies and mobs.

There are millions of uninsured Americans who need help desperately.

I hope you are really proud of yourself for letting them down just to score political points.

Thank you.


What a dissappointment he has turned out to be. JMHO of course.

I encourage others to call. I did it and I sent a report of the message to the Obama people too. Not that it will change anything but hey at least my conscience feels better.

[TheWraith]

1. I believe he's saying the public option isn't robust enough.

He's a big supporter of single-payer. I wouldn't attribute his opposition to the insurance industry.

[PATRICK]

2. He is part of the backbone

of the House. This is the stand he campaigned on without equivocation. At one meeting he stated the current position that Dem leadership had told him that nothing was likely to be done the first year because of "cost" and the the crisis. Things changed rapidly for the better to get legislation started this year. A strong position of a significant number of House Reps is necessary to anchor the need for the best reform. The other side, consisting of a pitiable number of DINOs, sure as hell is anchoring against ALL change and reform. If it is good enough to pass in spite of progressive opposition, the nay votes will still show impetus toward pushing reform forward.

Do we need another lie that a compromise that forsakes the experience of all other nations(who may have started reluctantly on the cheap and now have single payer universal available care) and costs American lives, health, wealth and ruinously subsidizes profiteers while the premium paying taxpayers(whose money unwillingly finances the lobbying efforts against their own interests) shoulder the burden to try to save a portion of the uninsured and badly covered? Maybe it is the military background of leaving no man behind that puts backbone into his stand. It is not the politics of selective murder and bowing to defeat against special interests. How on earth is he supposed to fight for health care reform if he is REQUIRED by someone's interpretation of progressive ideals to join a chorus of costly, murderous, unnecessary defeat? How on earth can this be misrepresented as breaking a campaign pledge?

There are two things that brought about health care reform this year: the absolute national need to fix a ruinous progression of cost and loss of coverage(I wish it could be prioritized about the victims but it seems primarily about national economy)AND the backbone of progressives in making the whole challenge. IN the DC machinations the DINO's want NO bill at all and will likely vote against ANY reform after their various charades or cravenly join in the glow of championing reform to hold on to their unworthy careers- if their insurance industry constituents give them slack after their good service(which THEY are wise enough to do even if the media blinded voters wait to be told how to react). Somehow the precarious blame is being shifted against progressives whose adamant honesty alone keeps the momentum toward true reform growing. They also will take all the heat for "opposing" a mediocre plan whether such a plan wins or loses in order to serve the American people and stop profiteering murder.

Massa has not changed his commitments one iota. I wondered on the other hand after a few of his meetings whether he in fact would bend as a newbie to the Foggy Bottom Dem diseases we all supposedly inveigh against here. He has not and all too many here cannot fathom that we DO have a spine of Dems in DC, a product of grass roots, not corporate donations or Corporate Pravda anointing. He will, for his pains have a slough of corporate money donated to his less than unelectable opponent come fall and if the comparatively bought and murderous Dem leadership remove all political benefit from making the right law we will have fewer, not more, true Reps of conscience and the people come fall.

The simplicity of reform legislation is this: single payer is the honest effort to save all and serve the true interests of all except problem makers, anything less is selective rescue and condemnation(to death in some instances) of as many victims as are lost behind the wall of health industry bought privilege. And we don't want ANYONE upon pain of losing our vote to make a stand on their behalf while a few entrenched DINO and GOP Senators can mock the world????? This is the clearest instance of how the government of the people we are working for is working for the truth and incredibly the poison of our corporate system is enough(one way or another) to cloud the judgment of some supporters.