taking action now!

ditto – i don’t tweet but i’ve done all the others

No response to voice mail to Rachel, Anna Eshoo’s senior field representative in Palo Alto.

I’ve sent a third email (second email here):

Dear Rachel,

I’m perplexed that you are not responding to a constituent. I’ve taken the time to address concerns I have with my representative’s legisilation. I’ve met you in person and sent you two emails and earlier today a voicemail. So far you have not responded. This isn’t the quality of representation any constituent deserves and I’m dismayed by how tardy you have been in responding.

Congresswoman Eshoo claimed she prohibits Evergreen exclusivity last week. The provision in paragraph (I) on lines 8-10 of page 1538 in HR 3962 ((not including a modification to the structure of the biological product) are a glaring weakness and in effect give the lie to Congresswoman Eshoo’s protest that she prohibited evergreen exclusivity. I’ve offered suggestions for fixing this weakness; presumably my congresswoman wants to walk the walk and do as she said.. how is she addressing this?

I’m convinced that evergreen exclusivity is a policy that offers sick americans a choice between bankruptcy and life. Policy should not place a regulatory guarantee of high profits over life and death decision and I hope that Congresswoman Eshoo will fix her legislation to actually prohibit evergreen exclusivity for biosimilar medicines.

You have my phone number as well as my email address. Please respond.

mercury news LTE still about 50%… I’m deciding how nasty I want to be before finishing it.

Did what I could. (But are these people really old enough to be med students?!!)

Signed and sent to others including my sis-in-law a breast cancer survivor who will pass it on. Will make calls Monday.

Hey, we had a little excitement today here in The City Beautiful. Got me out of work early.

My experience is that they like a little bit of an edge or wise-assery in the ones the publish. At least the paper here does.

I wish just ONCE the very same right wing that supports shit like this that also plays up “family values and morality” would explain to me in what universe it’s “moral” to have a dying person right in front of you, and you have the means to save that person but refuse to because of their economic status.

It’s pretty clear to me that Eshoo is OK with another vocal constituent being angry with her sellout to PhRMA.

She’s dropped below Frank McCloskey in quality of representation. Still has a a bit of a drop to be worse than Baron Hill.

I’m wrestling with how strongly I call her a liar and an enabler of people dieing in service to Mammon. :-) Should I say she offers cancer sufferers as sacrifice? Or is that too over the top?

Or should I just keep to the still strident points I made when writing to her staffer?

I’m inclined to go with the latter as it would do more informing and persuasion of uninformed readers.

Didja see how Michele Malkin was getting her loonies to send requests for donations back to the RNC and write on them that tehy weren’t giving until they ran “real” conservative candidiates and not RINOs like Dede Scozzafava in NY-23?

She posted pictures of this stuff and I found one odd, coming from a Christian no doubt. This person wrote “Stop nominating RINO Republicans [redundant, yes?]No $$$ to ar left candidates like Dede in NY-23. Don’t make the same mistake in FL. Support conservative candidate – not Christ.”

Yup. “Not Christ.” Now I happen to live in Florida. And I know it’s a pretty big state and all but haven’t seen Jesus running for anything here. Especially not as a Republican.

it’s the one from “reader Catherine:
http://michellemalkin.com/2009/11/04/making-sure-the-message-sticks-more-rejected-rnc-forms/

I usually go for “disingenuous” rather than “liar.”

Eschew Eshoo

thanks for the action items, jane.

not exactly ot: the last couple of days fairleft has been writing diaries on what looks like another outrage added to the house bill: the death of chip and what that will mean for kids. he/she is getting a bit panicked about the lack of attention the issue is getting, and i said that everyone was probably way overwhelmed already, but that we should try to bring it to your attention on one of your threads, just to make sure you were aware of it too. not sure what could be done at this late date, but thought it’s better to know than be surprised later….

Finally received a message from Rachel, Eshoo’s staffer.

Sent me the text from HR3200 I requested in person a week ago. WAnd she told me I’d receive an email from the Congresswoman addressing my concerns directly.

If that happens (Eshoo responds to my concerns) I’ll be mollified wit respect to Eshoo caring about vocal constituents… and still pissed if she doesn’t at least fix the “structural change” language to include a definition… it should be replaced wholesale with Schumer’s anti-evergreen language.

I wouldn’t denigrate his efforts by participating, he/she clearly thinks that a “major pwoggie blue blog” is too lowly and contemptible to be involved in the effort.

Maybe one day we can hope to do so — in the mean time we’re overwhelmed and underesourced and working as hard as we can on things we (perhaps mistakenly) think are important.

Keep at it … you’ve got thousands of people in sync and Congress is noticing.

There’s a lot to dislike in both the House and Senate bills. At this point it seems like the House bill won’t be improved before a vote.

Losing CHIP without providing some other way of getting kids covered is bad news. Farleft suggests contacting Jay Rockefeller to get children covered at least as well as they are today.

The diary selise linked to upthread is worth looking at. He does give FDL and other blogs a hard time for not having his priorities, and that’s not a good way to get allies or get promoted to the front page.

I used that in my e-mail to Jackie Speier who is the rep from the district just north of Eshoo’s. My closing was:

Please eschew the Eshoo Amendment.

Read it aloud and it sound like someone catching a cold.

That’s right. We need to make Jackie run and hide, or stand and deliver… (sorry) for what Anna is doing.

A 100 HR page bill could well be called a legislative sausage, – fine. A 2000 page bill is 1900 pages of legislative spam, aka industry loopholes. Kill this Frankenstein creation now! Legislate some necessary patches, get Obama to see the light on the economy, by firing Geithner & Lawrence, and have vocal Progressives offer to come out for Democrats in 2012 if they promise to push through a 100pg Medicare plus bill within 3 post election months.

onomatopoeia, works for me.

i understand you have to make priorities, there is just too much going on to do everything, and my comment was in no way meant as an objection to your priorities. i just wanted to make sure you were aware of the issue as i remembered that ralphbon had written about this biologics issue in a diary about three months ago, and being polite did make a stink about it being ignored.

fairleft has been writing about the chip issue and only today got so inflammatory — it was an appeal for attention, certainly not as you write because fdl is “too lowly and contemptible to be involved in the effort.” i think it was calculated only to get attention, not for him/her self but for the issue. at least in that it was a success, because the issue of children’s health is so far and above in importance to whatever little offense we might take.

again, i completely understand the issue of being overwhelmed, as in fact i wrote in the comments to fairleft’s diary. just wanted to make sure you knew about it, so your efforts are based on your priorities, and not because you didn’t know about the issue. i for one, and very glad fairleft has been writing with increasing stridency because it made me pay attention.

Losing CHIP without providing some other way of getting kids covered is bad news. Farleft suggests contacting Jay Rockefeller to get children covered at least as well as they are today.

The diary selise linked to upthread is worth looking at. He does give FDL and other blogs a hard time for not having his priorities, and that’s not a good way to get allies or get promoted to the front page.

thanks wmd1961. polite didn’t work, so especially given this issue, i don’t object that fairleft attempted other methods. we’re all grown ups here and can separate whatever little annoyance we may feel from the realization that this is a potentially v big issue. of course that doesn’t mean anyone has much or even any time to work on it. but that’s a separate point from not knowing about it.

It appears that these students did not make appointments to talk to congressional leaders or their staff. They appear to be just walking into offices unannounced.

I’m a health care horror story, my battle with cancer cost us everything of financial value, even with very good insurance, so I understand their point.

However this video seems more of a publicly stunt, that real citizen lobbying.