Fwd: [DCFO Advocacy Team] URGENT Congressional Progressive Caucus Press Conference

[Jeremy Koulish]

Health Care action today @ 2:30. Southeast side of the Capitol. I'll be there. Can you?

Jeremy

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From: Lawson <alex....@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 12:21 AM
Subject: [DCFO Advocacy Team] URGENT Congressional Progressive Caucus Press Conference
To: DC for Obama Advocacy Team <dc-for-obama-...@googlegroups.com>



From: Shaunna Thomas
Sent: Wednesday, July 29, 2009 11:15 PM
Subject: Moment of truth: CPC and the Blue Dog compromise

I need your help – and the Congressional Progressive Caucus needs your
help. Urgently.

Today, the Energy and Commerce committee accepted a compromise with
the Blue Dogs which would have the effect of crippling the public
option. (As reported, it specifically makes it so that the public
option no longer pays Medicare+5%, but instead has to individually
negotiate rates with providers. In addition to dramatically increasing
the overall cost of reform, this has a big negative impact on the
public option’s ability to jumpstart operations.)

This compromise is in direct conflict with one of the core tenets of
the Congressional Progressive Caucus’s criteria for a robust public
option. The belief appears to be that the progressives will once again
just roll over.

Not this time. Not this fight.

Tomorrow afternoon, the CPC will be holding a press conference in
conjunction with their allied caucuses the CBC, CHC, and CAPAC. They
are going to draw a very clear line in the sand – unambiguously and so
brightly it’ll be seen all the way at the White House. We need the
largest crowd we can get at the press conference:

Thursday July 30, 2009
2:30 pm
At the triangle on the southeast side of the Capitol

This is the first real moment in which the progressives inside of
Congress are being tested for their resolve on healthcare. And this is
the most significant ask they’ve made of progressives outside of
Congress in the day-to-day fight.

Please help.

Can you reach out to your networks and help us get as many people as
possible to come to tomorrow’s press conference?

Many, many thanks,
Shaunna

Shaunna Thomas
ProgressiveCongress.org
917-664-2497 (cell)- call any time

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Jeremy Koulish
jkou...@gmail.com
917-597-4397