One of the most effective speakers of our citizen’s rally in Harrisburg was Barb Stakes of Bucks County. Look for her in the video. For years, she went without health insurance because of a pre-existing condition. The cheapest insurance offered to her would have cost $10,000 a year. Now, because of the ACA, she has good health insurance for $283 a month.
The day after we were in Harrisburg, our Program Director, Robin Stelly, along with Barb Stakes and other activists demonstrated outside the office of Congressman Mike Fitzpatrick, who voted to repeal the ACA. Congressman Fitzpatrick, to our disappointment, saw us but got in his car and drove away. 
When a video of his doing so appeared on the website of the papers and on youtube, the Congressman, had his district director write an op-ed attacking Robin and Barb.
Congressman Fitzpatrick attacked us for being funded by George Soros. We would be proud to have his support, but unfortunately that is not true. And to keep standing up for Barb Stakes and everyone else who needs the Affordable Care Act, we need your support.
Barb Stakes is writing her own op-ed, which will be published soon that tells folks that it’s not Congressman Fitzpatrick’s accessibility we care about, it is his voting record. On issue after issue, from the health care, to women’s health issues, to Social Security, to taxes, to Medicare and Medicaid, to education and beyond, Penn ACTION is going to be showing people in Bucks County that Congressman Fitzpatrick is standing with the corporate CEOs who are in the top 1% of income in this country, not with the rest of us.
We’ll post it as soon as it appear.s