Mike Ross has just announced that he will be holding a health care Town Hall this Friday, August 14, at 2pm in Arkadelphia, AR. Arkadelphia is about 60 miles southwest of Little Rock.
Twenty percent of Mike Ross’s district lives in poverty, 21.8% are uninsured, and nearly a quarter are African American. Yet Mike Ross boasts about holding health care reform "hostage," insuring that medical costs stay high and that fewer people are covered, and protecting insurance company profits while people in his district suffer.
No Arkansas candidate for Senate or Congress was opposed by the other major party in the 2008 election. The only opposition came from the Arkansas Greens. The Greens were removed from the ballot by the state in 2008, and have announced that they will sue. If anyone is interested in challenging Ross, let us know.
Ross will also hold two telephone town halls: one on Thursday, August 13 at 7:10 pm, and the other on Thursday, August 27 at 7:10 pm.
If you are interested in going to the event, or want to help phone bank and organize turnout, let us know here.
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Mike Ross thinks he’s untouchable, which is why he’s so arrogant.
Show him he’s wrong.
Can Blue America endorse a Green I want someone to run against Mike.
Please tell me we got one Pup with a video camera going
If anyone is interested in challenging Ross, let us know.
Oh, I’d be happy to challenge him, but I don’t think that we’re talking about the same thing here….
Too bad Mike wasn’t able to attend this event which happend 40 years ago this weekend. He might have grown up to become a human being.
That might be Arkadelphia AR (arkansas) not AK (alaska)
As much as 76 percent of Mike Ross campaign contributions originate outside of Arkansas… so support for a better candidate from outside Arkansas seems perfectly reasonable.
So Ross is having an event in Alaska (AK)? Seems a bit far from home, unless you meant Arkansas (AR).
[Modnote: oops! muchas gracias]
Yes, Arkadelphia is just down the road from that town called Hope.
Someone needs to explain to right wings nuts like Bernie Goldberg and his punditry posse, that the issue is not that these people are organized. The issue is what they are doing when they get there. Stifling debate is not democratic.
Here is Bernie and O’Reilly getting this issue all wrong.
http://progressnotcongress.org/?p=2468
fyi – Senator Blanche Lincoln will be speaking at several in-state sites this week
I mention it because she’s in for some patriot love – She called the tea baggers “unamerican” on Saturday – of course she retracted a whole 12 seconds later, but these folks don’t strike me as the bygones type :D
going over to put the events in the tracker now
Somehow, I don’t think they actually misunderstand anymore than Joseph Goebbles would have.
Lincoln and Pryor have no public accessible events scheduled this month.
You better have a lot of cash and be a member of the Chamber of Commerce if you want to get close to Lincoln or Pryor. Some folks say Pryor’s staff will be writing their own questions..for his closed events or telephone forums.
thanks. the mouthbreathers will be there just the same – and no doubt the local Action News! team
I’m glad you folks (Jane and others) are out there putting the pressure on. I am a 61 y/o Democrat who has had it with all of them. I have canceled all of my subscriptions to any administration or Dem websites and have decided to stop giving any $ to any of them.
I am sick of spineless Democrats. They can all go to hell.
“No Arkansas candidate for Senate or Congress was opposed by the other major party in the 2008 election.”
A strong case for term limits.
wondering if Clark County NAACP would like to participate, lord knows this fucker owes that community a few answers
The closest “town hall mtg” for me is 4 and a half hrs away.
Give me a bill that I can support (like HR 676) rather than the insurance industry bought-out HR 3200 and I will be there, no matter how sick I am.
The reason hwh Right wingnuts have gotten the better of this one , is that Dems refuse to support real reform. Obama and the Dems are NEVER going to please right wingers or Blue Dogs (who should be GOP), but he keeps trying and refuses to support the Real Left.
I do not understand why people were so upset when the South wanted to secede—think what we could do without them! (and NOT do!)
I used to live in Western Europe (yes, Id go back if I hadnt lost most of my money in a govt pension plan to health care) and I’ve been fighting this one for ages…the “public option” is a joke and will be so watered down, that, believe ms, most people that need help will not even notice a difference and the Dems will have wasted all of that political capital….course, they always do that and that is why I’m not a Democrat anymore.
Wouldn’t it be refreshing to see some of the 21% of his constituents that do not have insurance show up at his dog and pony show demanding the same health care that this shill has for himself.
They create a hell on earth for most Americans while they live lives of luxury and priviledge. They forget what happened to Louis XVI.
I disagree, but I do think public campaign finance only would have the best chance of leveling (and opening) the playing field.
Term limits just mean the rich have to by off new candidates from time to time. We need to keep the rich from being able to do it at all.
Arkansas political elite must be a subsidiary of Walmart.
Jane, you get a mention in The Plum Line: George Soros Pledges $5 Million To Bankroll Health Care Reform Push, Group Says
You’re probably right about the rich just buying a different group of politicians but maybe some of these people would do the right thing in their final term in office.