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graywarrior Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-24-09 11:17 AM
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Just emailed Prez Obama with a letter of thanks and support
I explained that I am as far on the left as any Mass liberal can be, but that I appreciated the effort he put into getting this bill passed.


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gratefultobelib Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-24-09 11:46 AM
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1. Good suggestion, thanks!
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NJmaverick Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-24-09 11:50 AM
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2. Well done! I need to start following your fine expample
and start doing things like that, that can make a difference
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graywarrior Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-24-09 11:51 AM
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3. We need to outshout the shouters.
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Cha Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-24-09 12:27 PM
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4. Thanks, graywarrior!
There's a lot of whining going on now from the left and the right who have evidently joined forces to bring down the Health Bill but an important, hard earned step was taken today without them.
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HughMoran Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-24-09 12:29 PM
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5. I should follow up as well.
The last letter I sent was to oppose the stupid trigger idea being floated by Snowe et al. At this point, I'm almost happy to see them focusing on improving the core of the bill which will affect FAR more people than the public option would have (& sooner). I am still hopeful that a public option can be added into the exchanges at a later date. They already require one non-profit and I don't see it as too much of a stretch to add in a public plan for those who still can't get insurance after the exchanges (& other provisions) are in place.
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rebel with a cause Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-27-09 11:34 PM
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11. My last two letters were more negative than positive also.
I wrote to him on two issues that bothered me. One had to do with the HCR bill and the other had to do with a statement he issued. Did not rake him over the coals but did point out what I felt would hurt us in the HCR bill and the error that would hurt him in the statement. I was honest with him when I talked to him in person and will be so now in any communications I send to him. He doesn't know me from Adam and I send it to the mass email link like everyone else, but it is important to me that I say what I think. :shrug:

If he did know me from Adam he would probably just laugh at my presumption that I could tell him what to do. ;)
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Cha Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-27-09 11:47 PM
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12. He wants feedback and
that's all you can do is be honest and respectful which I know you are.

I've written too but not lately.
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Undercurrent Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-24-09 04:09 PM
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6. Great!
Think I do the same. :thumbsup:
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Cha Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-24-09 06:52 PM
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7. I'd like to go over
to Hawai'i and thank him in person but in lieu of that I shall write him here...



http://www.whitehouse.gov/contact
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madokie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-24-09 07:10 PM
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8. Good idea
Edited on Thu Dec-24-09 07:28 PM by madokie
I'll be doing the same thing.
I just want him to know that this ole okie appreciates the hell out of him.

Add: just finished wishing them a beautiful holiday and thanking him for doing his job with the class he has be doing it with.
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still_one Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-24-09 10:02 PM
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9. It is an extrodinary thing what is happening. This strategy to get a HCR bill through
was not even thought possible, ande though there are things in it that are not to everyones liking, to even get it through was no small feat

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Peacetrain Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-24-09 10:11 PM
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10. Yes I need to do that also..
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