Who is organizing at town hall meetings?
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MoveOn.org is Trying to Mobilize Activists to Attend Town Hall Meetings to Push for ‘Public Option’ Health Care
Thursday, August 13, 2009
By Penny Starr, Senior Staff Writer
A man holds a sign as President Obama’s motorcade heads to a town hall on health care reform, Wednesday, July 29, 2009, near a supermarket in Bristol, Va. (AP Photo/Haraz N. Ghanbari)(CNSNews.com) – While President Obama has focused attention on "special interests" that are mobilizing to try to defeat his health-care plan, the liberal group MoveOn.org is trying to mobilize people to attend congressional town hall meetings to push for the plan, and especially to push for a government-run “public option” insurance program.
MoveOn.org is even suggesting brief statements people can make in favor of a “public option” health care plan if they attend a town hall, and gives people the opportunity to download signs indicating their approval of the "public option" that they can print and carry into the meetings.
The lead article on MoveOn.org’s Web site yesterday and this morning is headlined, “It’s Getting Ugly.”
“Right-wing extremists are disrupting town hall meetings with attacks on President Obama’s plans for health care and clean energy,” it says. “But we’re showing Congress that ordinary Americans continue to support his agenda for change.”
If visitors to the site then click on a link labeled, “Get materials to attend a town hall near you,” they are directed to a list of three suggested statements and a question they can use at town hall meetings, as well as additional links to ready-made posters that can be downloaded and printed.
“I’m here to urge you to push for passage of a health care reform plan with a real public health insurance option as soon as you head back to Washington,” says the first of three suggested statements. “It’s critical for controlling skyrocketing costs and guaranteeing security for all of us.”
“Our health care system is broken–costs are skyrocketing and too many people can’t afford coverage,” says the second suggested statement. “President Obama’s health care plan–the public health insurance option–is the key to fixing those problems.”
“We need action now,” says the third suggested statement. “The cost of inaction is too high—every day that we delay, 14,000 Americans lose their insurance and nearly 2,500 file for bankruptcy because of medical costs. And costs continue to spiral out of control: average family premiums will hit $22,000 a year in the next decade.”
The one question MoveOn.org suggests people use is also prefaced with a statement.
“With a real public option, costs will start to go down and millions of individuals, families, and small businesses will have access to high-quality, affordable health insurance,” says the preface to this question. “And no matter what happens to our jobs or our health, a public option will always be there for us. Will you fight to make sure a real public health insurance option is included in health care reform this year?”
The three downloadable signs provided by the MoveOn.org Web site say: “Public Option = Affordable Health Care,” “Prescription: Public Option,” and “83 percent Support the Public Option.”
Moveon.org is ran by Evil Georgie Soro’s, Im not surprised for the further manipulations … Im sure Georgie is getting uptight he invested so much into Obama’s new world order and its not really working in his favor… Oh well- Georgy is getting really old anyway! We Americans won’t put up with this anymore! They manipulated their way into the White House- now we will get them OUT!
March 31st, 2010 at 3:12 pm
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090827/ap_on_go_co/us_health_care_mccain
its backfiring
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March 31st, 2010 at 3:51 pm
I don’t know who they think they are going to convince. We know who they are and what they stand for.
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March 31st, 2010 at 4:02 pm
1. GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS ORGANIZE THEM
2. CONSERVATIVES WERE PACKING THEM
3. LIBERALS ARE NOW BEATING THEM AT THEIR OWN GAME
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March 31st, 2010 at 4:35 pm
Isn’t it funny that Obama promised to pull the American people together?
It’s beginning to look like the 1960′s all over again with all the protests against him.
I also find it humorous that liberals found it deplorable that someone would stand up and speak against the government take-over of health care at a pro-reform rally…..Now, they don’t mind so much. LOL
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March 31st, 2010 at 4:50 pm
Moveon.org is ran by Evil Georgie Soro’s, Im not surprised for the further manipulations … Im sure Georgie is getting uptight he invested so much into Obama’s new world order and its not really working in his favor… Oh well- Georgy is getting really old anyway! We Americans won’t put up with this anymore! They manipulated their way into the White House- now we will get them OUT!
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