We Stood With Dr. Dean in Las Vegas

Written by: Karen Kostoff on Jul 10, 2009 3:06 AM EDT

Linked to groups: Henderson NV Democracy For America, Las Vegas Democracy For America

Our Las Vegas and Henderson NV, Democracy For America groups today partnered with a group of Move On members to deliver petitions.  We all are a part of Stand With Dr. Dean to work toward a Health Care Public Option.  The DFA petitons in Nevada came to over 1,900 and I believe Move On had about 1300.

We met at the Federal Building and held a rally and a few of the members went up to Senator Reid's office and Senator Ensign's to deliver the petitions.

We thanked Senator Reid, who just yesterday he told Sen. Baucus to be sure and include a public option in his bill.  Actually, we've all emailed or called Senator Reid's office and even signed onto a petition he had out stating we wouldn't support any healthcare reform that did not include a public option.  So it was terrific that he in effect came out for that yesterday. 

I just want to thank some of our members for all their work and efforts to make this a success.  Teresa, who is always one of the very best Organizers of anything political, helped the Move On people get this set up.  Linda and Cathy did a great job making signs, blowing up the petitions to make them larger and easier to read and going to each Senators office. 

Not to mention what an excellent job they did talking to the Media.  They know this issue and came across sharp and well informed, as they are.  So much so, they are mentioned in the Las Vegas Sun article.  You can check it out at http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2009/jul/09/grassroots-group-petitions-ensign-public-health-ca/

Also a special mention to George, who we missed as well as a couple others when we went to take pictures of our members.  But thanks, George, we can always count on you to be there. 

And how can I forget Carl, who is always keeping all of us informed on all issues and any changes to them all the time.

Lastly go to the Media section of our page for the other (repetitive) pics of us guys at the rally.

Hope to see you at the next one.

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Location: Las Vegas, NV