Posted on 08/11/2009 6:18:31 PM PDT by Sammy67
In another sign of the urgency gripping the pro-health care reform camp, billionaire George Soros has pledged to sink $5 million into the fight, the group getting the money confirmed.
Soros — whose operation carefully guards the privacy of such donations — made the pledge to Health Care For America Now, the leading coalition of pro-reform groups, unions and providers, HCAN chief Richard Kirsch confirmed in an email that was forwarded to me.
Kirsch was asked by a prominent liberal blogger to comment for a post on Soros’ $5 million pledge, which the blogger had heard about. “Thanks for the heads up,” Kirsch emailed in reply. “HCAN is pleased to be supported by people and organizations who support our campaign to win quality, affordable health care for all.”
The blogger, who didn’t end up writing about the donation, passed the email along, and an HCAN spokesperson didn’t dispute the email or the figure when I asked about it.
The Soros pledge is noteworthy, because both sides will seize on it. The right will say it shows the real astroturfing is coming from the pro-reform side — billionaire bogeyman Soros is bankrolling this fight!
The left will cite the donation to demand that HCAN show real results. Some on the left,
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Soros is a menace to sane society.
We know what the liars are up to because they’re going what they accuse us of...
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Send him the bill for the cost of it.
Well, I wondered how long it would take the bastard to surface on this.
http://healthcareforamericanow.org/site/content/who_we_are/
Our Coalition Updated - July 31, 2009
Print the coalition list:
National Organizations
9 to 5, National Association of Working Women
Abundant Children and Family Services
ACORN*
Adventists Community Services
AFL-CIO*
AFT*
AIDS in Action
Alliance for Retired Americans
American Academy of Family Physicians
American Academy of Nursing
American Academy of Pediatrics
American Family Voices
American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees*
American Federation of Television and Radio Artists
American Medical Student Association
American Nurses Association
Americans for Democratic Action (ADA)
Americans United for Change*
AskSlim.org
Asian and Pacific Islander American Health Forum
Association for Better Insulation
Black Women’s Health Imperative
Brave New Films
Bus Federation
Cafemom.com
Campaign for America’s Future*
Campus Progress Action
CareTALK
Catholics in Alliance for the Common Good
Center for American Progress Action Fund*
Campaign for Community Change*
Center for Rural Affairs
Center for Science in the Public Interest
Center for Social and Economic Justice
Child Advocate Network
Children’s Defense Fund Action Council
Committee of Interns and Residents/SEIU Healthcare
Commonweal Institute
Communications Workers of America (CWA)*
Community Action Partnership
Community Service Society
Clergy Strategic Alliances, LLC
CREDO Mobile
Democracia Ahora
Democracy for America
Direct Care Alliance
Eagle Medical Services
Future Majority
Gamaliel
Generational Alliance
Health Care for the 21st Century Consulting
Healthcare United
HIV Medicine Association
Holman Healthcare Consulting
Hope for Hepatitis C
Human Rights Campaign
International Federation of Black Prides, Inc.
International Union, United Automobile, Aerospace & Agricultural Implement Workers of America (UAW)*
Jobs With Justice
Latinos for National Health Insurance
Leadership Conference on Civil Rights (LCCR)
League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC)
MDI Imported Car Service, Inc
Moms for Universal Health Care on cafemom.com
MoveOn.org*
Muscular Dystrophy Foundation for Independent Living
My Rural America (Action Fund)
NAACP*
National Abortion Federation
National Alliance on Mental Illness
National Alliance of State and Territorial AIDS Directors
National Asian American Pacific Islander Mental Health Association
National Asian Pacific American Women’s Forum
National Alliance of Professional Psychology Providers
National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance
National Association of Certified Professional Midwives
National Association of School-Based Health Care
National Association for State Community Services Programs
National Association of Hepatitis Task Forces
National Association of Social Workers (NASW)
National Beauty Culturists’ League, Inc.
National Cervical Cancer Coalition
National Coalition for LGBT Health
National Community Action Foundation
National Consumers League
National Council of Urban Indian Health
National Council of Jewish Women
National Council of La Raza*
National Congress of American Indians (NCAI)
National Education Association*
National Foundation for Celiac Awareness
National Institute for Reproductive Health
National Korean American Service & Education Consortium
National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health
National Minority Quality Forum
National Partnership for Women and Families
National Physicians Alliance
National Women’s Health Network
National Women’s Law Center*
Northwest Federation of Community Organizations
Out with Cancer, Inc
Paint Lick Family Clinic, Inc
PHI/Health Care for Health Care Workers
Physicians for Reproductive Choice and Health
Planned Parenthood Federation of America
Progressive Action Network
Progress Now
Progressive Future
Progressive States Network
Raising Women’s Voices for the Health Care We Need
Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice
Rock the Vote
Roosevelt Institution
Sargent Shriver National Center on Poverty Law
Service Employees International Union*
Single Stop USA
Sister Song Women of Color Reproductive Health Collective
The Congressional Black Caucus Health Brain Trust
The Healthcare Coverage Post
The League of Young Voters
OWL -The Voice of Midlife and Older Women
The Workmen’s Circle/Arbeter Ring
True Majority
Universal Health Care Action Network (UHCAN)
Union for Reform Judaism
United Food and Commercial Workers*
United Professionals
USAction*
USPIRG
Votehealthcare.org
White Crane Billing Solutions
Women’s Health Foundation
Woman’s National Democratic Club
Women’s Universal Health Initiative
Women’s Voices for the Earth
Women’s Voices. Women Vote.*
Working America*
Working Families Win
Work Place Fairness
YWCA – Young Women’s Christian Association
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http://blog.healthcareforamericanow.org/congressional-support-for-health-care-for-america-now/
Here is the most up-to-date list of Members of the 111th Congress who have stated their support for the HCAN core principles for health care reform and that enactment of a guarantee of quality, affordable health care for all in America should be at the top of the legislative agenda for the new President and Congress in 2009.
Total number of Congressional Supporters: 199
21 Senators, 179 Representatives
President Barack Obama
Vice President Joseph R. Biden, Jr.
Labor Secretary Hilda Solis
Arizona
Representative Raul Grijalva
Representative Ed Pastor
Arkansas
Representative Marion Berry
Representative Mike Ross
California
Representative Joe Baca
Representative Howard L. Berman
Representative Lois Capps
Representative Susan Davis
Representative Anna Eshoo
Representative Bob Filner
Representative Jane Harman
Representative Michael M. Honda
Representative Barbara Lee
Representative Doris Matsui
Representative Laura Richardson
Representative Lucille Roybal-Allard
Representative Linda Sanchez
Representative Loretta Sanchez
Representative Adam Schiff
Representative Brad Sherman
Representative Jackie Speier
Representative Pete Stark
Representative Mike Thompson
Representative Diane E. Watson
Representative Henry Waxman
Representative Lynn Woolsey
Colorado
Representative Diana DeGette
Representative Betsy Markey
Representative Jared Polis
Connecticut
Representative Joe Courtney
Representative Rosa DeLauro
Representative Jim Himes
Representative John B. Larson
Representative Christopher Murphy
District of Columbia
Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton
Florida
Representative Corrine Brown
Representative Kathy Castor
Representative Alan Grayson
Representative Kendrick B. Meek
Representative Wasserman Schultz
Representative Robert Wexler
Georgia
Representative Sanford D. Bishop, Jr.
Representative Hank Johnson
Representative John Lewis
Hawaii
Senator Daniel K. Inouye
Representative Neil Abercrombie
Representative Mazie K. Hirono
Illinois
Senator Roland Burris
Senator Richard Durbin
Representative Danny K. Davis
Representative Luis V. Gutierrez
Representative Debbie Halvorson
Representative Phil Hare
Representative Jesse L. Jackson, Jr.
Representative Daniel Lipinsky
Representative Bobby Rush
Representative Janice Schakowsky
Indiana
Representative Andre Carson
Iowa
Senator Tom Harkin
Representative Leonard L. Boswell
Representative Bruce Braley
Representative Dave Loebsack
Kansas
Representative Dennis Moore
Kentucky
Representative Ben Chandler
Representative John Yarmuth
Louisiana
Senator Mary Landrieu
Maine
Representative Michael Michaud
Representative Chellie Pingree
Maryland
Senator Benjamin Cardin
Senator Barbara Mikulski
Representative Elijah Cummings
Representative Donna F. Edwards
Representative Frank Kratovil
Representative Steny Hoyer
Representative C.A. (Dutch) Ruppersberger
Representative John Sarbanes
Representative Chris Van Hollen
Massachusetts
Senator John Kerry
Representative William Delahunt
Representative Jim McGovern
Representative John Tierney
Michigan
Senator Carl Levin
Senator Debbie Stabenow
Representative John Conyers, Jr.
Representative Dale E. Kildee
Representative Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick
Representative Sander Levin
Representative Gary Peters
Representative Mark Schauer
Minnesota
Senator Amy Klobuchar
Representative Keith Ellison
Representative Betty McCollum
Representative Jim Oberstar
Representative Tim Walz
Missouri
Senator Claire McCaskill
Representative Russ Carnahan
Representative Emanuel Cleaver
Nevada
Representative Shelley Berkley
Representative Dina Titus
New Hampshire
Senator Jeanne Shaheen
Representative Paul Hodes
Representative Carol Shea-Porter
New Jersey
Senator Frank R. Lautenberg
Senator Robert Menendez
Representative John Adler
Representative Rob Andrews
Representative Rush Holt
Representative Leonard Lance
Representative Frank LoBiondo
Representative Frank Pallone, Jr.
Representative Bill Pascrell
Representative Donald Payne
Representative Steven R. Rothman
Representative Albio Sires
Representative Chris Smith
New Mexico
Representative Martin Heinrich
Representative Ben Ray Lujan
Representative Harry Teague
New York
Senator Kirsten Gillibrand
Representative Michael A. Arcuri
Representative Timothy Bishop
Representative Yvette D. Clarke
Representative Joseph Crowley
Representative John Hall
Representative Brian Higgins
Representative Maurice Hinchey
Representative Steve Israel
Representative Nita M. Lowey
Representative Dan Maffei
Representative Carolyn Maloney
Representative Eric Massa
Representative Carolyn McCarthy
Representative Gregory W. Meeks
Representative Jerrold Nadler
Representative Charles B. Rangel
Representative Jose E. Serrano
Representative Paul Tonko
Representative Edolphus Towns
Representative Nydia Velazquez
Representative Anthony Weiner
North Carolina
Representative G.K. Butterfield
Representative Brad Miller
Representative David Price
Ohio
Representative John Boccieri
Representative Steve Driehaus
Representative Marcy Kaptur
Representative Mary Jo Kilroy
Representative Tim Ryan
Representative Zach Space
Representative Betty Sutton
Representative Charlie A. Wilson
Oregon
Senator Jeff Merkley
Representative Earl Blumenauer
Representative Peter DeFazio
Representative Kurt Schrader
Representative David Wu
Pennsylvania
Senator Robert P. Casey, Jr.
Representative Jason Altmire
Representative Robert A. Brady
Representative Chris P. Carney
Representative Kathy Dahlkemper
Representative Mike Doyle
Representative Chaka Fattah
Representative Tim Holden
Representative Paul E. Kanjorski
Representative Patrick Murphy
Representative John Murtha
Representative Allyson Y. Schwartz
Representative Joe Sestak
Rhode Island
Representative Patrick J. Kennedy
Representative Jim Langevin
South Dakota
Senator Tim Johnson
Representative Stephanie Herseth Sandlin
Tennessee
Representative Steve Cohen
Representative Jim Cooper
Texas
Representative Lloyd Doggett
Representative Charles A. Gonzalez
Representative Al Green
Representative Gene Green
Representative Sheila Jackson-Lee
Representative Eddie Bernice Johnson
Representative Silvestre Reyes
Representative Ciro D. Rodriguez
U.S. Virgin Islands
Congressman Donna M. Christensen
Vermont
Representative Peter Welch
Virginia
Senator Mark Warner
Representative Gerry Connolly
Representative James P. Moran
Representative Thomas Perriello
Washington
Representative Norman D. Dicks
Representative Jim McDermott
Representative Adam Smith
West Virginia
Representative Nick. J. Rahall
Wisconsin
Senator Herb Kohl
Representative Tammy Baldwin
Representative Steve Kagen
Representative Ron Kind
Representative Gwen Moore
Thats like me saying I will donate a nickle to the queer lesbians society.
I think he’s more involved with what is happening than most people think.
Hopefully Soros will be at room tempurature soon.
Mr. Pro-euthanasia himself. Imagine that.
Soros-Care
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