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In reply to the discussion: "IT'S NOT ABOUT BERNIE, IT'S ABOUT US!" [View all]lapucelle
(19,545 posts)108. "That was brought up this week, but
it didn't get a lot of notice due to single payer being introduced."
When you inform your fellow local Democrats at your weekly local DNC meeting about the details of the Democratic platform, you might also want to remind them that a Democratic congressman has introduced his Medicare for All bill in every session of Congress since 2003.
Perhaps John Conyers should court more publicity about HR 676, but he's not the type of leader who grandstands.
http://www.medicareforall.org/pages/HR676
Remind your local DNC captains to tell volunteers training to canvass and phone bank for Democratic candidates that uninformed and misinformed voters pose as grave a threat to our rights as those who do not bother to vote. They helped put Trump in office and Gorsuch on the Supreme Court for a generation. The damage they have done is immeasurable.
When you inform your fellow local Democrats at your weekly local DNC meeting about the details of the Democratic platform, you might also want to remind them that a Democratic congressman has introduced his Medicare for All bill in every session of Congress since 2003.
Perhaps John Conyers should court more publicity about HR 676, but he's not the type of leader who grandstands.
http://www.medicareforall.org/pages/HR676
Remind your local DNC captains to tell volunteers training to canvass and phone bank for Democratic candidates that uninformed and misinformed voters pose as grave a threat to our rights as those who do not bother to vote. They helped put Trump in office and Gorsuch on the Supreme Court for a generation. The damage they have done is immeasurable.
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I do think, however, that we should ramp up exposing and ending all of the voter suppression
diva77
Sep 2017
#8
Do any of you have any concern for the thousands who are about to lose their health care? Many will
Demsrule86
Sep 2017
#103
Be sure to inform the folks at your meetings about the new Child Care for Working Families Act
DesertRat
Sep 2017
#83
And variations of that by the Dingell family (father, son, and now wife) since 1943 - 74 years!!!!
George II
Sep 2017
#111
Where are those local meetings? I was at a local meeting just last night....
George II
Sep 2017
#104
Amen. San Diego's 3 Democrats have NOT supported Bernie's Medicare for All but should.
Liberty Belle
Sep 2017
#64
I think bernie has got it right on health care- universal single payer health care for everyone!
VaBchTgerLily
Sep 2017
#86
I heard on MSNBC that the GOP now have the votes to repeal the ACA...while Sen. Sanders and others
Demsrule86
Sep 2017
#102
Yeah, I even heard Graham on an AMJoy clip today lumping the two together, as in
R B Garr
Sep 2017
#115
I don't think I will ever get over this...it was so foolish to do this...the ACA should have been
Demsrule86
Sep 2017
#118
Yup, and Graham knows it, too, which is why he called out Bernie like he did.
R B Garr
Sep 2017
#119