Day: August 10, 2009

Dear friends, We in Pennsylvania have built a huge movement for health care reform, so it is not surprising that we were one of the first places to witness the right wing’s vicious campaign of lies and intimidation at the Town Hall held by Senator Specter and HHS Secretary Sebelius in Philadelphia last week. We are fighting back. And if you are willing to step up and join us I guarantee that this opposition will not stop our movement for quality, affordable health care for all. I don’t want to take up space here to explain the right wing strategy and how we will overcome it. Click here for detailed analysis of the situation. Instead let me tell you what you can do in the upcoming week to move health care reform forward. Continue reading

Dear Friends, We in Pennsylvania have built a huge movement for health care reform, so it is not surprising that we were one of the first places to witness the right wing’s vicious campaign of lies and intimidation at the Town Hall held by Senator Specter and HHS Secretary Sebelius in Philadelphia a week ago. I’ll admit that we were all surprised by anti-democratic tactics that I had not seen in over thirty years of political activism. But, if we are all willing to work hard and keep to our strategy and take immediate action when we need you to, I guarantee we are going to win health care reform this year. And the right wing craziness is going to help us. Here’s why: The right wing strategy has two parts. The first is to bring small numbers of people to events to get media attention by means of utterly… Continue reading