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<DIV style="font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=info@boldprogressives.org
href="mailto:info@boldprogressives.org">Adam Green, BoldProgressives.org</A>
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<DIV><B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, February 16, 2010 2:15 PM</DIV>
<DIV><B>To:</B> <A title=laurie@advancenet.net
href="mailto:laurie@advancenet.net">Laurie Solomon</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Subject:</B> Huge public option news!</DIV></DIV></DIV>
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<P>Laurie,</P>
<P>Some great news. </P>
<P>This morning, four bold senators -- led by Colorado's Mike Bennet -- defied
the stale DC conventional wisdom that tells Democrats to be weak.</P>
<P>Instead, they wrote a letter calling on Majority Leader Harry Reid to pass
the public health insurance option through "reconciliation," which only needs a
simple majority in the Senate. </P>
<P><STRONG>This is huge news. Now we need Senators Richard Durbin and Roland
Burris to co-sign this letter.</STRONG></P>
<P><A
href="http://act.boldprogressives.org/go/390?akid=363.353556.x8GhqF&t=2">Can
you call Durbin and Burris today? Click here for the phone number and a
short script.</A></P>
<P>There will never be a more important time to call Congress about health care
reform.</P>
<P>Americans overwhelmingly want the public option. A majority of senators have
said they want the public option. And finally, "reconciliation" is seriously
under consideration -- meaning that Joe Lieberman would be unable to block the
bill.</P>
<P><STRONG>The only question is: Will Democratic senators have the guts to pass
the public option through reconciliation?</STRONG></P>
<P><A
href="http://act.boldprogressives.org/go/390?akid=363.353556.x8GhqF&t=3">Click
here to call Durbin and Burris today.</A></P>
<P>Senators Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY), Jeff Merkley (D-OR), and Sherrod Brown
(D-OH) were the three heroes who co-signed the Bennet letter today. </P>
<P>We hope Durbin and Burris will too. You can help make that happen. </P>
<P>Thanks for being a bold progressive.</P>
<P>-- Adam Green, Aaron Swartz, Michael Snook, Natasha Patel, Andrew Perez, and
the PCCC team</P>
<P style="PADDING-LEFT: 30px">P.S. Just recently, thousands of calls from people
like you got 119 House Democrats to sign a similar letter calling for the public
option through reconciliation. We can get lots of senators to sign too -- if we
<A
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