NY Senator Kirsten Gillibrand's petition to guarantee the public option:
"Political opponents are proposing nothing but the status quo. To me, that is unacceptable. I plan to stand with the President so that we move forward on health care reform, and I hope you will join me. I'm hopeful that over the next several weeks Republicans will now come to the table in good faith...if not, we must move forward without them." |
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Scott is a former and current President of Common Ground-NY (http://commongroundnyc.org/), a Geoist/Georgist activist group. He has written dozens of (more...)