New Blue America campaign against GOP dirtbags
by digby
Blue America took off after 8 GOP dirtbags right after Boehner’s 31st pointless House vote to repeal health care reform. We launched a Facebook campaign targeting 18-26 year olds who live in districts represented by Paul Ryan (WI-1), Tom Reed (NY-23), Frank Guinta (NH-1) Charlie Bass (NH-2), Sandy Adams and John Mica (both in FL-7), Buck McKeon (CA-25) and nasty little Patrick McHenry (NC-10).
All 8 of them voted (again) to repeal– with no plans whatsoever to replace– the Affordable Care Act. That would immediately throw every 18-26 year old off their parents’ health insurance plan, something that the vast majority of Democrats, independents and even Republicans think is a grave mistake. But all 8 of these congressmembers are blind ideologues who walk in lockstep with the GOP’s obstructionist and ruthlessly partisan leadership, Boehner and Cantor.
All 8 also have progressive opponents who want to help fix what’s wrong with the ACA– while keeping all the good stuff (like students getting to stay on their parents’ plans and like Big Insurance not being allowed to deny coverage to people with preexisting conditions.) Wednesday we talk about a plan by McKeon’s opponent, Dr. Lee Rogers, who has come up with some simple, straightforward fixes to the ACA that should be able to get support from both parties.
The ad campaign is simple too. All Facebook users in the offending Republicans’ districts will have an opportunity to click on a button that takes them to a Facebook page that urges them to register to vote (and makes it easy to do) and to flunk out their congressman on November 6th.
Click over to Howie’s site for more info. And as he says:
$5 or $10 goes a surprisingly long way on Facebook. Help Blue America flunk out these reactionary jerks here on a special ActBlue page for dirtbags.