Reid Pressured on Public Option in Liberal Group’s New Ad
EmailABC News’ Teddy Davis reports: A liberal group called the Progressive Change Campaign Committee (PCCC) is launching a new television ad in Nevada pressuring Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., to back a government insurance option as part of comprehensive health-care reform.
The ad features Nevada nurse Lee Slaughter. She says in the ad that she has seen insurance companies cut off care to patients in need — and says that in 2010, she will vote on only one issue: “I’m watching to see if Harry Reid is strong and effective enough as a leader to pass a public option into law.”
Watch it HERE.
The PCCC is the same organization which joined Rep. Alan Grayson, D-Fla., last week in delivering nearly 90,000 petition signatures to Reid’s office telling him to strip Democratic senators of plum committee assignments if they join a Republican filibuster on health care.
Reid’s office did not take too kindly to the petition.
“The only thing Senator Reid is worried about right now is putting together a bill that can get the 60 votes necessary to overcome a Republican filibuster,” Reid spokesman Jim Manley told the Washington Post last week. “He has no intention of stopping by” to receive the petition.
In its push for a public option, PCCC is taking advantage of the fact that Reid finds himself in a tough fight for re-election.
Last week, the Senate Majority Leader launched two television ads in Nevada more than a year before he faces the voters.
Republicans have not yet settled on a nominee against Reid.
Top GOP contenders include Sue Lowden, a former head of the state GOP who was the second runner-up for Miss America in 1973, Danny Tarkanian, the son of legendary UNLV basketball coach Jerry Tarkanian, and John Chachas, a wealthy investment banker.
The ad pressuring Reid on the public option was filmed over the weekend and will start airing Wednesday in the Las Vegas media market on both broadcast and cable.
PCCC, which has touted the ad in an email to 225,000 members, is setting an initial online fundraising goal of $100,000.
ABC News’ Rick Klein contributed to this report.
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Gee, there is a new term for spendthrift…..”Bold Progressives”…..wow. Now we know how to evaluate the term…..a synonym for spendthrift.
Posted by: Rick McDaniel | October 19, 2009, 10:07 am 10:07 am
NOTHING BUT A BUNCH OF LIBERAL LOSERS AS USUAL
Posted by: natale from mass. | October 19, 2009, 10:22 am 10:22 am
We have been watching this guy in the news with his attempts at power plays. I guess he tried to put the hit of Pelosi on national TV and even she didn’t like his moves. It is time to remind him that since he did not work for the people he represents, it is time to go. I hope Nevada puts in someone who cares for them.
Posted by: James L. | October 19, 2009, 10:52 am 10:52 am
GOP operatives continue to dishonestly and deceptively say that they cannot support a public option, they claim, because they want to keep costs down for the American people! Really? They claim this all the while knowing a public option/competition is the only way to bring about true reform and to put a Halt to the “out of control” medical costs and premiums crippling people and Employers, making it harder and harder to get by for everyone.
One has to think ahead. If you happen to lose your job today or tomorrow and because we do not have health care reform, who will pay you and your familiy’s health care bills, if you are lucky enough to be able to see a doctor without insurance?
There is a reason that GOP always say Gov’t is the problem. They know that when you have a party of men and women in power who do Nothing for Main Street but say no or complain, to reform, then goverment is a problem! And so it becomes a self-fulliling prophecy. As long as the GOP were in power or in control, the goverment has been a do nothing, problematic government for Average Americans and a big Boom and Bonus for the Rich and well connected. We must remember, this is Bush & the GOP’s recession. They had the power for 8 years and did nothing to uplift this country, only to rape it from Main Street, to add it to Wall Street. The GOP does not even like to raise the Minimum Wage! They care nothing if you are making it. People we must wake up now! Because look around, assess the United States’ situation that we are in and ask yourself over the last 10 years of GOP rule, what have they done for you lately? Or this country? Do you like what the United States has become? And ask yourself this, if we let them get power again, how much more further will this country be destroyed until the United States will no longer be. That is a very frightening thought!
Posted by: angellight | October 19, 2009, 12:49 pm 12:49 pm
BOLD PROGRESSIVES -THANK YOU!
PUBLIC OPTION IS REFORM!
REMEMBER VOTE NO REPUBLICANS TO OFFICE!
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Posted by: TRUTH-B-TOLD | October 19, 2009, 3:42 pm 3:42 pm