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Single-Payer Lobbyists Come to Washington DC

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If you watch the mainstream press, you will hear that a single-payer health care plan will not be seriously considered by lawmakers crafting reform of the US health care system. Advocates of HR 676, the single-payer health care plan in the House of Representatives, beg to differ. This video follows their efforts at a rally in Upper Senate Park.
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    • Michael Sullivan, president of the Sheet Metal Workers International Association, issued a letter to labor leaders at the AFL-CIO’s executive council meeting last week, announcing that his union had suspended “all future financial or intangible contributions” to federal candidates. He asked the federation’s affiliates to join him, saying a small group of “pro-business” Democrats were reneging on their health care promises after they won office with labor’s support.

      “One union will not have much effect,” Sullivan said. “However, working together will send a strong message that will not be ignored.”

      Greg Junemann, president of the International Federation of Professional and Technical Engineers, criticized centrist lawmakers for what he called cowardice in the face of Republican opposition. “These coin-flipping Democrats haven’t shown themselves to be strong advocates for anything resembling real, responsible reform,” he said. “Apparently there are a heck of a lot of people in the Democratic Party who seem to have short memories. If we don’t get health care or labor law reform, our members are going to come back to us and ask, ‘What was all that work for?’ ”

      As for those Democrats who don’t deliver: “They are not getting anything from us — not a penny, not a phone call, nothing.”

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