The Huffington Post - In a full-page New York Times ad released Wednesday, Obama campaign workers demand that the president fight for a public health care option.
The Progressive Change Campaign Committee
raised over $100,000 online to fund the ad [2]
, which will be published in the paper this week. It features a petition signed by 400 former Obama campaign staffers, 25,000 Obama volunteers, and 40,000 Obama donors that states health care reform without a public option is not "change we can believe in." The full page can be seen at ActBlue, where the group is now
raising money to turn it into a television spot [3]
featuring Obama organizers.
Read more [4]
.
Links:
[1] http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_4WeP1A0-ufo/SqflI7sQiEI/AAAAAAAAAsE/MkMgj_B7w-Q/s1600-h/original.jpg
[2] http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/09/03/group-organizing-obama-wo_n_276609.html
[3] http://www.actblue.com/page/changewecanbelievein?refcode=obamaadhtml
[4] http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/09/09/progressive-obama-backers_n_280272.html