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Friday, Nov. 20, 2009 | 7:29 a.m.
Reid robo-call
WASHINGTON -- The progressive group that ran TV ads critical of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's leadership as it pushed him to include the public option in the health care bill now says it has the leader's back as he potentially comes under pressure to change the bill as the health debate begins in the Senate.
The Progressive Change Campaign Committee will be dialing up 10,000 Nevadans a day, beginning Saturday, with a robo-call supporting Reid's efforts to preserve the public option in the bill.
The call will feature Lee Slaughter, the Nevada nurse who was featured in the group's TV ad a month ago that questioned whether Reid was a strong enough leader to pursue the government run health plan option that most Americans, and a slim majority of Nevadans, support.
In the call, Lee tells listeners that Reid "shocked the political world by being so bold on this issue... We'll stand with him as long as he keeps fighting for a public option."
You can listen to the call here or in the video to the right.
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Lisa Mascaro's pro-Obamacare bias is too obvious.
Claiming that "most americans" support a government run health care option.
really? that' not according to every reputable poll I've read about.
The pro-socialism polls are heavily weighted toward democrats, some as much as three to one.
Haha. Is this the new GOoP excuse for why they're so low in the polls? And btw, polls across the board show strong majority support for a public option...
http://blog.aflcio.org/2009/11/18/new-po...
Even here in Nevada, most people want the public option. Republicans are just getting mad at the thought of Reid succeeding on health care.
Lefty: he won't succeed any more than Obama's poll numbers will ever be north of 50% again. By Jove, Obama has become Jimmy Carter faster than Jimmy Carter became Jimmy Carter!
The Sun must censor comments on their number one stooge.
LVS is a sad excuse for honest journalism. You run as many hit pieces on insignificant loser Ensign as you can dig up, then try to salvage any fluff and puff corrupt Reid. Then you poison this comment page about how you encourage debate, when you're in the bag for Reid.
I hate these intrusive calls. ISH.
If robo Reid calls me, I'm gonna ask him to bring me a pizza and a 36 pack of Bud Light at tax payers expense.
Harry has to keep in mind that the American people are awake and listning. The last election was won by the librals because Americans were not paying enough attention to OUR Goverment. WE ARE NOW HARRY.............and "WE THE PEOPLE" out number your liberal friends!!!All the ads, and phone calls and signs and money is not going to get you or your son into office.
Get a cell phone and drop the land line
Did anyone tell these fools that for $1.2 Trillion we are putting only 1.5% of the people under the public plan AND 18 million will remain uninsured.
Not going to work for me neither. Harry Reid is on life support, period. His son Roy is as well. We're done with Reids's in Nevada. This Government Health Care garbage was just the straw that broke the camel's back.
Robot calling machines were invented by Caligula.