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UPDATE Washington State news… take Action,Call 202 225 3106 THANK Rep.McDermott for signing the Polis/Pingree letter for Pub Opt


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Tonight,2/1/2010 MSNBC’s Ed Schultz and Rep. Jared Polis will talk about the letter from 81 House members calling for a public option.Can you help get to 100 signers by the time the show airs? Click here to ask Rep. McDermott (one more time) to sign today.

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UPDATE On 2/2/2010, I checked the list of Representatives that have signed the Poli/Pingree letter. I am happy to let you all know that Washington States own Jim McDermott has signed on as  a supporter, Please call him and thank him today !!!

2/1/2010

Big news. Thanks to thousands of phone calls from people like you last week, 81 House Democrats signed the Polis-Pingree letter calling on the Senate to pass the public health insurance option through “reconciliation,” which only needs 51 Senate votes.

Tonight on MSNBC’s Ed Show at 6pm EST, Rep. Jared Polis will talk about the amazing resurgence for the public option. On the show, he’ll announce the latest number of letter signers.

Unfortunately, Rep. Jim McDermott hasn’t signed on yet. Can help us get from 81 to 100 signers today by calling him one more time and asking him to sign the Polis/Pingree letter in support of the public option?

Click here to make a call — we give you a script and the number.

Sometimes, it takes a couple calls to do the trick, so you calling again will have a big impact.

Thanks for being a bold progressive.

— Stephanie Taylor, Aaron Swartz, Adam Green, Brian Bills, Natasha Patel, and the PCCC team

P.S. This letter is definitely affecting the “conventional wisdom” in Washington, D.C. On Friday, the Washington Post’s Greg Sargent wrote:

Could the public option make a comeback?…a growing number of House Dems are pushing an interesting strategy along these lines that’s worth a look.

To wit: Now that the idea of passing a fix to the Senate bill via a majority vote is being considered, why not revive the public option as part of that fix? A simple majority of Senators favors one, so such a fix could presumably pass via reconciliation.

But more to the point, such a move would make it easier for the Senate bill to pass the House, because it could win over enough liberals — many of whom don’t want to pass the Senate bill — to make it easier to secure the 218 needed for passage.

Can you help the momentum grow? Click here to call McDermott (one more time) today — we give you a script and number.