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Dueling health care petitions at Boehner’s office
Update:
From Organizing for America Spokeswoman Christina Tamburro:
In response to your post today, to be clear, the 1,868 declarations that were dropped off by Organizing for America volunteers on Monday are all residents/constituents of Ohio’s 8th Congressional District (Boehner’s district). I’ve attached a PDF of the names of those that have publicly declared their support for the President’s plan for health insurance reform; the list includes supporters’ names, cities and zip codes.
(The pdf is below)
Original post:
After local Democratic groups dropped off a garlic milkshake and 1,800 signatures to protest U.S. House Minority Leader John Boehner’s views on the “public option” in health care reform, a group on the right responded with a petition of its own.
The Cincinnati Tea Party delivered a petition this week to the West Chester Twp. Republican’s local office with 3,000 names of people opposed to the public option, according to officials in Boehner’s office.
The first, pro-public option petition had no addresses, so it was unclear how many signatures were from Boehner’s district. Of the second petition, 523 names were from Boehner’s district and nearly all were from Ohio, mostly from Cincinnati.
What do you think?
As an aside, I hope to have a blog point at some point soon dealing with county issues, so this doesn’t become the Boehner blog.
Petition:
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Comments
By greatly concerned
October 7, 2009 4:11 PM | Link to this
Instead of this pissing match…why don’t they work together to find a middle ground both parties can live with? Where are our best and brightest? Certainly not in politics. The time is right for a sensible, reasonable, sane third party.
By Leigh
October 7, 2009 11:03 PM | Link to this
It would also be interesting to know how many contacts directly to Boehner’s office have been made in support of the public option. I emailed him directly as soon as he made his statement. My name isn’t on a petition.
By Boehner's a fraud
October 8, 2009 3:06 PM | Link to this
I called The tan man without a plan a few days ago. They’re not very nice at this home office in West Chester when you have a difference of opinion. Then again most employees take their cues from the top so its completely expected. Classless bunch of narcissists.
By shirley
October 9, 2009 7:38 AM | Link to this
The point of the pro-public option petition is that Boehner said NO ONE was in favor of a public option. Is his district more conservative than the country? Yes — or he wouldn’t be elected and re-elected. But clearly, he is not listening to all of his constituents if he thinks there is no support of the public option — nor did he read the story about 69% of Ohioans supporting the public option.
By greatly concerned
October 9, 2009 9:14 AM | Link to this
Shirley, you have hit the nail on the head! Boehner only listens to one source: Big Insurance and Big Tobacco that pays for his bias. The vast majority of people I have discussed this with believe the more health care options we have, the better. Of course, Mr. Boehner’s health insurance is paid for life by us taxpayers, so he cannot relate to those of us that pay more monthly for health insurance than we do our homes.
By Tim
October 12, 2009 11:47 AM | Link to this
Just say no John, its been now some 70+ days since he was putting the finishing touches on his health bill never to be seen, must be like his budget bill blank pages. i to live in the 8th district and support a public option or better yet scrap the whole thing and regulate the industry that can’t be trusted. i have asked just say no john this several times but with no response i have asked why we can’thave the same healthcare he has no response. it would seem just say no john only hears who he want’s to hear.