Comments on: Call Back: Good. Connecting: Not So Good.

By: WtP

WtP — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 01:32:26 +0000

When was the last time a republican controlled senate went out of its way to the point of drastically changing the legislation to gain the support of a single democrat congressman??

By: Ebb

Ebb — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 01:29:00 +0000

As for the general commentary, Snowe is still a Republican, making sure that a bunch of outdated obstructionist GOP ideas make it into the bill. As much as I would like to thank her for the vote of confidence, I’d rather have her thrown out of office and have another Democrat in that seat.

By: MoveOn member

MoveOn member — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 01:19:39 +0000

We’ve asked you before to call your senator in support of real health care reform with a public option—but today we’ve got an even more important way to make a difference.

There are a few states with conservative Democratic senators who are undermining health care reform by opposing the public option. So we need their phones to ring off the hook with outraged constituents.

To help make that happen, we’ve dusted off the online calling tool we used in the 2006 and 2008 elections, and set it up so you can call MoveOn members in those key states and connect them directly to their senator’s office on Capitol Hill.

Your fellow MoveOn members are always fun to talk to and eager to help out, and the tool is really easy to use—but we need some help testing it out today before we share it with the wider world. Can you make a few calls right now?

http://pol.moveon.org/ndhealth/call/start.html?-7692656-20091103-fBRC7K&id=17514-7692656-7Mg3W9x&t=3

To get started, we’re making calls to MoveOn members in North Dakota—the home state of Senator Kent Conrad, who’s been one of the biggest obstacles to President Obama’s health care plan.

He recently sided with big insurance companies to vote against a public health insurance option in the Senate Finance Committee—so we’ve set a goal of calling every MoveOn member in his home state to let them know about his vote and sign them up to call his office.

You don’t need to know anything special—our phone tool will walk you through the process and give you all the info you need. You can practice reading through the calling script, and then start calling MoveOn members.

The only requirement is that you’re able to be on the phone (land line or cell phone) and on the Internet at the same time. And we can only make calls before 5 p.m. Eastern time, while Capitol Hill offices are still open.

If you have any questions, the webpage below includes answers to frequently asked questions and a way to email other MoveOn members for help. Go ahead, click now to get started:

http://pol.moveon.org/ndhealth/call/start.html?-7692656-20091103-fBRC7K&id=17514-7692656-7Mg3W9x&t=4

By: N

Wed, 14 Oct 2009 01:06:02 +0000

I commend this great woman, Sen. Olympia Snowe (R-Maine) for giving the health reform effort a bi- partisan status.

By: Yolanda

Yolanda — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 21:38:38 +0000

I got this from the web. i don’t understand why the dems keep courting the repubs.
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Sen. Olympia Snowe (R-Maine) said Tuesday that she intends to vote for passage of the Senate Finance Committee’s health care reform package. She cautioned that her vote should be seen as a sign of her faith in the process going forward and not as support for the final package that will arrive on the Senate floor.
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Yolanda