Come on folks, we CAN do it. BE the change! Look down the list depending on your state. MAKE these calls AND send an e-mail. KEEP doing it.
This post has actions for EVERYONE (at end), but some specific state actions are called out.
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For Californians: I called every office of CA Senator Dianne Feinstein today (more about that tomorrow when I do the same thing again).But here is what you need to do tomorrow, Wednesday:
1. Call Feinstein's DC Office. Use the toll free number: 1-866-338-1015, ask for her office.
Phone: (202) 224-3841
Fax: (202) 228-3954
This message is short and sweet:
I want a public option and nothing else.
No co-ops
No time triggers (for bill provision(s) to begin)
Medicare-like plan open to all, day one.
Get off the dime and DO something to support your CA constituents.
2. Call your local Feinstein office.
San Diego
Phone: (619) 231-9712
Fax: (619) 231-1108
Fresno
Phone: (559) 485-7430
Fax: (559) 485-9689
San Francisco
Phone: (415) 393-0707
Fax: (415) 393-0710
Los Angeles
Phone: (310) 914-7300
Fax: (310) 914-7318
3. Call one or more of the people on the Senate HELP (health, education, labor and pensions) Committee (the committee is working on health care leg in the Senate so it is important to understand that you do NOT have to be a constituent of theirs on this issue). Personally, I suggest focusing on Kay Hagan (D-NC) (again, you can use the toll free number 1-866-338-1015). Here is her Senate site.
Tom Harkin (IA): (202) 224-3254
Barbara A. Mikulski (MD): (202) 224-4654
Jeff Bingaman (NM): (202) 224-5521
Patty Murray (WA: (202) 224-2621
Jack Reed (RI): (202) 224-4642
Bernard Sanders (I) (VT): (202) 224-5141
Sherrod Brown (OH): (202) 224-2315
Robert P. Casey, Jr. (PA): (202) 224-6324
Kay Hagan (NC): (202) 224-6342
Jeff Merkley (OR): (202) 224-3753
North Carolina: Call Kay Hagan (again and again). Not only is she possibly your senator, she is on the Senate HELP Committee. See info above in RED. Also call one or all of her state offices. See sidebar for telephone numbers. If you called or wrote once, do it again.
For the following states:
Iowa
Maryland
New Mexico
Ohio
Oregon
Pennsylvania
Rhode Island
Vermont
Washington
Call your senators. Each state has a senator on the Senate HELP Committee which is drafting legislation RIGHT NOW.
Message:
We want a public option.
No co-ops.
No triggers.
Medicare-like and comprehensive.
NOW!
Here is the list. Call toll free using 1-866-338-1015:
Tom Harkin (IA): (202) 224-3254
Barbara A. Mikulski (MD): (202) 224-4654
Jeff Bingaman (NM): (202) 224-5521
Patty Murray (WA: (202) 224-2621
Jack Reed (RI): (202) 224-4642
Bernard Sanders (I) (VT): (202) 224-5141
Sherrod Brown (OH): (202) 224-2315
Robert P. Casey, Jr. (PA): (202) 224-6324
Kay Hagan (NC): (202) 224-6342
Jeff Merkley (OR): (202) 224-3753
THEN also call Kay Hagan, in red above whether your senator or not.
For everyone not specifically listed: Contact your Senator's state office locally and in DC . You can find the numbers here. Use the toll free number for DC: 1-866-338-1015.
The message:
We want a public option.
No co-ops.
No triggers.
Medicare-like and comprehensive.
NOW!
It is important to make as many calls as you can and send e-mails.
Please, get this out. You are welcome to copy this post, take from it whatever you like. But PLEASE get this out there!
This is a hard, hard fight and senators are balking in helping us while they suck up HUGE amounts of insurance industry money. Fight, and fight hard!
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