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By Christopher Hass – Aug 9th, 2009 at 7:00 pm EDT Also listed in: Organizing for Health Care Blog From OFA Director Mitch Stewart:
All throughout August, our members of Congress are back in town. Insurance companies and partisan attack groups are stirring up fear with false rumors about the President’s plan, and it’s extremely important that folks like you speak up now.
So we’ve cooked up an easy, powerful way for you to make a big impression: Office Visits for Health Reform.
All this week, OFA members like you will be stopping by local congressional offices to show our support for insurance reform. You can have a quick conversation with the local staff, tell your personal story, or even just drop off a customized flyer and say that reform matters to you.
We’ll provide everything you need: the address, phone number, and open hours for the office, information about how the health care crisis affects your state for you to drop off (with the option of adding your personal story), and a step-by-step guide for your visit.
Click here to find your representatives’ local offices.
As you’ve probably seen in the news, special interest attack groups are stirring up partisan mobs with lies about health reform, and it’s getting ugly. Across the country, members of Congress who support reform are being shouted down, physically assaulted, hung in effigy, and receiving death threats. We can’t let extremists hijack this debate, or confuse Congress about where the people stand.
Office Visits for Health Reform are our chance to show that the vast majority of American voters know that the cost of inaction is too high to bear, and strongly support passing health reform in 2009.
Don’t worry if you’ve never done anything like this before. The congressional staff is there to listen, and your opinion as a constituent matters a lot. And if you bring a friend, you’ll have more fun and make an even greater impact.
Click here to sign up for an Office Visit for Health Reform.
Wherever you live, these visits matter: Many representatives are pushing hard toward reform, and they are taking a lot of heat from special interests. They deserve our thanks and need our support to continue the fight. But those who are still putting insurance companies and partisan point-scoring ahead of their constituents must know that voters are watching — and that we expect better.
Earlier this week, the President wrote that “this is the moment our movement was built for” and asked us all to commit to join at least one event this month. This is the way to answer that call, and rise to the challenge of this moment together.
Thank you for going the extra mile when it matters the most,
Mitch
Mitch Stewart
Director
Organizing for America
Via Free Republic
How is it that his audience is just “folks like you” but also “OFA members”??
I was a lot more upset about the angry mobs gathering, trashing property, and issuing death threats against American businessmen. I don’t recall a peep from the Administration about THOSE angry mobs; about THAT un-American behavior; about the real and present violence directed against those men and women.
I have to check that link now; I have to find my representative’s “Office Visit for Health Care Reform”; I will have to make time to drop by and leave some things in writing.
Hahahahaha, I’m listening to a liberal whine about anger at Town Hall meetings—he’s just so upset that people are disagreeing in loud and angry voices (because, of course, that never happened on the left). WHAT A BUNCH OF BIRKENSTOCK WEENIES!
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