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EMERGENCY: WH says more people calling AGAINST public plan than FOR IT!!!
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2009/6/18/744070/-EME… !!!
However i’ve called the White House and the many listed senators and those of the HELP committee every day this week since before last Thursday. And after imploring daily to tell their elected official including the president that the public plan is NON-NEGOTIABLE (no to 7 year trigger, no to taxing employer health benefits, no to daschle/dole, etc) the people on the receiving end of my phonecalls say that they have BARELY heard from us. This is NO exaggeration. I was about to cry. The wingnuts and freepers are winning this.
They, even the blue states at Barbara Boxer or Diane Feinstein’s office (I’m from CA) say they get FAR more calls AGAINST the public option than for it. This includes the White House. I told the comment operators at thew the whitehouse or Senate offices that a poll came out yesterday saying 76% in the new NBC/WSJ poll support the Public Option. They laughed and asked "Really????"
P.S.: The white house comment operator told me that if i really want to get my message to the president, you MUST EMAIL AS WELL AS CALLING. I say that goes for the Senators of the HELP committee listed in slinkerwink’s diary.
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Tom Harkin (IA): (202) 224-3254
Barbara A. Mikulski (MD): (202) 224-4654
Jeff Bingaman (NM): (202) 224-5521
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Jack Reed (RI): (202) 224-4642
Bernard Sanders (I) (VT): (202) 224-5141
Sherrod Brown (OH): (202) 224-2315
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WH says more people calling AGAINST public plan than FOR IT!!!———-no, didn’t see this; where did you see this?
I did see the poll where 76% of the public is in favor of a ‘public option’ by the government.
“Hello, is that President Obama? I’d like not to have a public plan that will give me affordable healthcare and save the country money. Thanks.”
Hmmm, don’t think so. Maybe they’re doing a “weighted phone call” thing? Ordinary person, one vote. Health insurance executive, 60 votes.
Sounds like swift-ops to me.