San Fran Nan is
trying to raise some bucks to counteract the GOP on health care. I'll tell you how we can help after this:
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has launched an urgent effort to raise $100,000 by Monday to help combat what she calls GOP "smears" about health care reform.
"Republican opponents of reform are coming out with one outrageous smear after the next, all aimed at derailing our progress. We must be able to counter their special interest-funded attacks and set the record straight," Pelosi wrote in a letter to Democratic supporters.
"That's why I have set a goal of raising $100,000 in grassroots donations before the August FEC fundraising deadline," says Pelosi.
Pelosi and Democrats are clearly worried that they've lost momentum on health care reform this month, and many in her caucus have been crushed by opposition at town hall events.
Pelosi's appeal is aimed at small donors, and she asks for donations of $5 or more in her letter.
Democrats for weeks have been on the defensive, accusing Republicans of mischaracterizing their reform effort. President Barack Obama fired back several weeks ago after Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), a key Republican negotiator on the Senate Finance Committee, said the Democratic push threatened to "pull the plug on grandma."
Now, Pelosi is pushing back.
"Republicans are doing everything they can to spread the lies they hope will kill health insurance
reform," Pelosi writes at the end of the e-mail. "Please make a generous financial contribution to help Democrats get the truth out and fight GOP smears."
Here's how you can help. Find a penny, tape it to a sheet of paper (use 5 or 6 strips of tape to make sure the penny won't come loose), and send it here:
Office of the Speaker
H-232, US Capitol
Washington, DC 20515
You'll make her staff members happy as they joyously extract all these pennies for health care from the incoming mail.
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3 comments:
No, not a penny--a genuine imitation faux California Gummint IOU. THAT'S the thing.
Hey Sam -
Where can I get one of those to send to her? Being from California and all, I would think that the Damascus Diva would appreciate the humor in that.
I'm putting my penny in the mail tonight. We'd better be careful, though, with as many people as are angry about this legislation, we might actually raise some serious cash!
Meanwhile, since lefties hate the rich so much, my suggestion to Mrs. Pelosi would be to divest herself of some of her own filthy lucre.
(Don't think she's gonna do it, though.)
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