Another call to action from my mother, listen to her, I do and look how far it has gotten me. If you listen to her this time you might wiggle some affordable healthcare out of the deal.

hello all–  please join me in signing the petition below from Credo.  it is important for president obama and the administration to hear from us that the public option must be kept in the health care reform.

at this time last year, we were all working diligently to get sen. obama  elected.  in november we were victorious and in  january senator obama became president obama. remember those days?  remember the energy, the excitement, the work, the sense of purpose?  in some ways and on many days, it feels as though many of us stopped being engaged in the political process on november 5th.

the health care issue is our fight too.  on monday morning i joined approximately 200-220 people to march at the location of the eddie bernice johnson and pete sessions town hall meeting.  i was there from 7 to approximately 9:20.  i counted the black folk; there weremaybe 25 of us. let’s make our voices heard.  please take the time to sign this credo petition and pass the word.  the link is at the bottom of the page.

on and up, for indeed the struggle continues.

here is the letter from credo…

If we don’t make a stand now for a public option, the Obama administration may hedge on its plan for health care reform.

This weekend, the Obama administration indicated that it might be open to passing health care reform without any provision for a public insurance option similar to Medicare that could compete with private insurance companies.

President Obama said that a public option was just a “sliver” of his plan. Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebeliuswent so far as to say that the public option was not an “essential” part of reform.

The comments this weekend by the president and Secretary Sebelius rhetorically pave the way for the Obama administration to cave on a meaningful public option and instead accept toothlessregional health care co-ops that would be unable to compete with insurance companies and keep them honest.

I just signed a petition to tell President Obama that the public option is not optional and that he should tell Congress and the voters that he will not sign a bill without a robust public option similar to Medicare.

I hope you will sign this petition too. Please have a look and take action.

http://act.credoaction.com/campaign/publicoption_bo/?r_by=5558-1840584-kEymG5x&rc=confemail