WEDNESDAY 6/21/17 CALLS TO ACTION: We’ve elected the Little Rascals!

FEDERAL:

AS USUAL LATELY, HEALTHCARE IS ON THE AGENDA

Call Burr & Tillis about the Super Secret Healthcare Committee™ and let them know we are watching even though their Senate colleagues are hiding out in their He-Man Woman Haters club house.

There are several scripts in recent calls to action here on our site.

If you’d like to take a crack at calling senators in other states, Indivisible has a handy, dandy list to use, complete with scripts and everything.

Actual footage from the first Senate Healthcare Committee Meeting  ?

STATE:

And while we’re at it, we should call our senators and representatives in Raleigh and try to get them on record about their feeling toward the Super-Secret Healthcare Bill being concocted deep in the bowels of the US Senate. Our General Assembly is notorious for engaging in the same kind of dark-of-night, behind-closed-doors shenanigans as our US Senate is doing right now.  I’m sure we can pretty much guess our legislators’ positions, as they are mostly party line, rubber stampers, but it’s good to have them on record.

You may want to remind them how much of an effect kicking 1.3 million North Carolinians off their health insurance coverage will have on the opioid crisis we are currently facing. There is also the small matter of children, elderly, indigent and disabled people who will lose access to insurance, which will in turn drive up health costs because they will have to seek medical care in Emergency Rooms rather than having proactive care from their regular doctors.

So much for fiscal responsibility on the part of Republicans, huh?

N.C. governor warns Obamacare repeal will hurt battle against opioid addiction

1 in 10 Americans Could Lose Access to Marketplace Plans

(From the above link) See our county right there? We’re in the “high risk” for losing health insurance bracket.

 

Posting this again today, because it is a useful thing.

 

Call your Representatives: Allen McNeill, Pat Hurley

Call your Senators: Jerry Tillman, Rick Gunn

SCRIPT: Hi, I am calling from Sen/Rep __________’s district. I would like to know what the Sen/Rep’s feelings are about the healthcare bill being drafted in secret meetings in the US Senate. What are the Sen/Rep’s feeling on the 1.3 million North Carolinians who are projected to lose access to health insurance with the passage of this bill? How does the Sen/Rep feel about these proceedings being conducted out of the public eye? Transparency in government is a very important issue to me and I think it’s important for the Sen/Rep to support transparency from the people charged with making our laws. Thank you for your time.

 

SIGN THE 6TH DISTRICT DEMOCRATS’ PETITION FOR NON-PARTISAN REDISTRICTING

UPCOMING EVENTS:

 

Let’s Pack the Courtroom for the League of Women Voters CANCELLED –   US District Court 324 W Market St, Greensboro, North Carolina 27401  The trial begins on June 26th at 9:30 a.m. in Courtroom 3.  The League of Women Voters of NC is going to trial over NC’s ridiculously partisan gerrymandering. If athletes play better when the stands are packed with supporters, let’s assume attorneys do, too!

NCDP Unity Dinner (Formerly Jefferson-Jackson Dinner) July 15, 2017 – Details TBA