CNN - "Chamber of Commerce lobbies against health care bill"

[TomCADem]

CNN notes how following the Citizens United decision, "the Chamber of 2010 is not your grandfather’s or even your father’s Chamber."

http://amfix.blogs.cnn.com/2010/03/17/chamber-of-commerce-lobbies-against-health-care-bill/

Bruce Josten, executive vice president of the Chamber, told us the president’s plan “is not going to work” and that “when you’re trying to restructure fundamentally between a sixth and a fifth of the economy all at once, you are going to have unintended consequences.“

The Chamber’s health care message, says Evan Tracey of the Campaign Media Advisory Group, made its way into $42 million worth of TV ads last year. So far this year, the Chamber’s TV ad total is $3 million and growing.

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The Chamber has gathered a massive database of supporters to operate a grassroots campaign in the fall to elect candidates who support their political agenda. Josten told us they “have a database of about six million names of people that we can reach out to and activate.”

David Artush, of the Public Citizen, a consumer advocacy organization, says the Chamber's massive advertising budget, grassroots organization, and extensive lobbying activities “is really frightening to members of Congress. It makes them listen to the Chamber’s lobbyists.”

[FrenchieCat]

1. They probably got some them posting right here at DU.....

seem like the Health Care bill is being dogged out....
all of the sudden some more!

[Morning Dew]

2. I suppose the Chamber could be right on occasion

but, generally, if they're against something, I'm for it.

That's a real POS outfit.

[Turbineguy]

3. Send a message to Congress:

Keep killing 45,000 Americans per year!


:sarcasm:

[PinkFloyd]

4. Thanks for the post...

When have they ever been in favor of a Democratic cause? They'll hate financial reform too, even as watered down as it is.