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No Elephants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-18-09 07:35 AM
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89. Rejoice. With a Blue Dog, your voice counts more. If your Rep. were
Edited on Tue Aug-18-09 07:41 AM by No Elephants
a member of the Progressive Caucus, your emails and calls would be little more than cheerleading. That has value, but not as much clout as telling a Blue Dog he or she damn will better not vote for a bill without a public option. Not to mention that you have the rare opportunity of being able to work to PRIMARY a blue dog. (Geez, we should call them red dogs, or purple dogs.) I wish I had that opportunity.

My Rep is a member of the Prog. Caucus, too, and I email him all the time. My Senators are not, so I email them even more, including this morning. Let them know I'd be voting Green next time if they vote for a bill without a "robust" public option.
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