Health care reform supporters demonstrate at Bell Tower
The state director for Sen. Mark R. Warner, D-Va., will head to Capitol Hill with a box of petitions signed by Virginians in support of President Barack Obama's health care principles.
Several hundred health care reform supporters gathered at the Bell Tower on the grounds of the state Capitol this evening to express their support of Obama's efforts. The event was coordinated by Organizing for America, a project of the Democratic National Committee.
The group said it presented Warner's state director, Eva Teig Hardy, with about 42,000 declarations of support for Obama's three health care reform principles -- reduced cost, guaranteed choice and quality care for all.
OFA is in the process of presenting these declarations to other members of Virginia's Congressional delegation, said Brandyn Keating, OFA's state director.
"The idea is for them to take away the depth and breath of the constituent base that is concerned about the health care debate and the urgency," Keating said.
-- Olympia Meola
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@dswx
‘Teabaggers’ is a vulgar term used by the Chris Matthews/Keith Olberman crowd to insult Tea Party members who are opposed to OBAMA’S BIG GOVERNMENT takeover.
The irony is that most people who actually engage in the practice of ‘teabagging’ are themselves liberal democrats.
What a classy bunch.
As demonstrated here on a daily basis, the ignorance of the right wing is profound.
dr hoagie,
He is planning a town hall, although on the surface it looks like he is trying to sneak it in without anyone noticing:
You sound like a MorOn.org shill. What are you talking about?
Show us all proof of your phone being tapped or George Bush monitoring the books you checked out of libraries.
Besides, everyone knows liberals don’t go to libraries. They go to Barnes and Nobles to read their books there without buying them.
And show us all one communist in George Bush’s inner circle. For the record, Van Jones, Obama’s Special Advisor for Green Jobs at the White House Council on Environmental Quality is a self proclaimed “Communist”. Slipped right through that vetting process.
I think it would be very commendable and bi-partisan for Mr. Warner to take a box of petitions signed by Virginians
who do not support Mr. Obama’s Health Insurance Reform Bills.
I am sure he could find a few citizens to put their John Hancock on paper.
They are still considered citizens aren’t they?
And for general information-the term Brownshirts is currently being used to describe the young people who will be conscripted into GIVE. HR 1388.
The GENERATIONS INVIGORATING VOLUNTEERISM and EDUCATION ACT.
Looking up the meaning of “brownshirts” is a good idea for all wishing to us it in a sentence.
Give Mr. Emanuel a call for a heads up.
We just lived (barely) through 8 years of an administration that wanted carte blanche to tap our phones, review the library books we checked out and create penned-off “free speech zones” outside of events and denounced all dissenters as traitorous and “America haters,“ and you people think Obama’s actions are USSR-like?
I guess that’s why the root of “conservative” is “Con.“
Shouldn’t Mark Warner be conducting Town Hall meetings in front of the people instead of having his state director carrying a box of unverifiable signatures to Barack Obama?
Organizing for America is a Barack Obama created street thug organization. The guy is supposed to be OUR president yet he develops a shake down organization to intimidate us.
Very USSR-like.
I wonder if he would be willing to take a box of petitions signed by Virginians that don’t support Obama’s health care principles.
Its good to have a Pro-Obamacare gathering at that time because all the Teaparty folks will be at work.
“It’s nice to see the sheep hard at work. Continue brownshirts…...“
Wrong article. Whether you know it or not, you are of course referring to the teabaggers aka the corporate sponsored shills get-togethers.
BTW, you might want to actually look up the meaning of “brownshirts” if you are going to use it in a sentence. They were paramilitary and sent thousands to their death. You might want to visit the Holocaust Museum to learn something.
The hundreds who gathered at the Bell Tower were there to enable health care choice. Sort of the opposite of what the brownshirts were doing if you’d bother to learn history and not simply regurgitate lies and hate which right-wing media tell you.
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