Month: September 2009
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The Georgia Health Care Insurance Reform Rally
Today’s Health Care Reform Rally offered numerous great speakers who let the crowd know that they were not alone in this fight for health care for all Americans. The speakers sent strong messages that health care for all was needed NOW. Larry Pelligrini and Lee Goodall did a fabulous job emceeing the event. Rev. TMac…
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A Prayer for Health Care Reform
Before all of the wonderful speakers at today’s Health Care Reform Rally spoke, the crowd was graced by the linguistic skills of Rev. Tim McDonald. Rev. Tim gave the best prayer evah on the need for health care for all Americans. His words are not only thought provoking and spine tingling; they are RIGHTEOUS! Rev.…
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What this movement definitely needs is more cowbell!
I knew something was missing! This gal (pictured left with cowbell) was in charge of warming up the crowd at today’s Health Care Rally at the GA Capitol. The day started out none too promising, overcast, but cleared up beautifully for the rally that began shortly after 12:00. The rally was organized by a number…
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Money doesn’t talk, it swears
It was Will Rogers who is credited with saying, “We have the best Congress money can buy,” and the passage of time has shown us that Will was, sadly, all too accurate in his assessment.
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Jane Kidd delivers healthcare insurance reform to Sen. Isakson
Today, the Democratic Party of Georgia (DPG) and Organizing for America (OfA) planned a press conference to deliver a healthcare insurance reform petition to US Sen. Johnny Isakson. The petition was signed by 40,000 Georgians who support health care reform. But Georgia’s junior Senator, or at least his staff, seemed less than excited to hear…
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Civil rights? What a radical concept!
New York Times reporter Charlie Savage writes that Attorney General Eric Holder plans to revamp the Justice Department’s civil rights division so that the division actually does weird things like enforce the country’s civil rights laws. How quaint.