Labor warns Dems that they should not expect support if they sit out on the Public Option.
In an interview with the Huffington Post on Saturday, Richard Trumka, the secretary-treasurer and likely next president of the AFL-CIO, said his federation is drawing a line in the sand when it comes to a public option in the health care bill. Lawmakers who don't support the provision, he said, shouldn't take anything for granted.
"We'll look at every one of their votes," Trumka said after his speech at the Netroots Nation convention. "If they're against the Employee Free Choice Act, if they're against health care for that reason, I think it'll be tough for them to get support from working people."
That should be the message for all of us: Dont bother sending me emails for Money if you cant do what I elected you for with 60 Dems.
There is a forum tommorrow:
The State Employees Association of North Carolina (SEANC) is hosting a Town Hall Meeting on Health Care Reform next WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 19, 6:30-8 p.m. at the Teamsters Union Hall (Sandy Ridge Road & I-40) Greensboro.
The meeting is OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. It will give state employees, retirees and other community members the opportunity to ask questions to elected officials, and medical and business professionals about how the current debate over health care reform will impact people in N.C.
Please help spread the word about this event.
For more information about the Town Hall Meeting, contact Heather Welborn at (704) 609-5906 or hwelborn@seanc.org.
I still feel that Mr. President should do what he said he would do and things would be easier. Obama won NC VA OH FL NM NV IN all supposed RED states with the promise of change. I still believe he can get it to us. However, I would feel a lot more confident in the current health care mess if everything wasn't so damn secret.
Everything Obama promised he would change is exactly what is going on right now. What happened to putting the health care deal making on T.V. instead of having Baucus, in his usual back room deal-making ways, screw us over? How in the hell do you allow the Republican Party to call a sitting President a non-citizen and still make deals with them? How in the hell do you allow a party to say "Obama's out to kill your Grandma" and not call them out on this shit? I was one who was a little apprehensive in the summer of blood when Hillary was killing Obama and he was just sitting back getting spanked. I hold out hope that he is using the same strategy to win the current battle. But man, my party is not helping at all. I am going to raise hell for my side of this mess.