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Jody Wagner for Lieutenant Governor - JodyForVA.com

Where's Bill Bolling: click here to watch this (same as above).

Community Action Party!

DEEDS NOT WORDS

Wednesday SEPTEMBER 30, 2009 7:30pm
VA Democratic Coordinated Campaign Office in Kingstowne
Featured speakers: Del. Mark Sickles, Deeds Campaign Manager Joe Abbey
Special Guest: Obama Organizer Mike Lamb

6460 Landsdowne Center
Alexandria, VA 22315
info, map, hours – click here

Join us as we move into the final sprint toward Election Day! Come celebrate all of our hard work, and sign up to get involved if you haven’t already.

We need your help to elect Creigh Deeds, Jody Wagner, Steve Shannon, and Democrats running for Delegate in the 42nd, 43rd, 44th, and 45th!

Meet your local field organizers, and team leaders! Find out how you can help move Virginia forward with the VA Victory ’09 Team!

Will Ferrell: Support Insurance Companies

Will Ferrell on health care reform.

Protect Health Insurance Companies PSA from Will Ferrell

Bob McDonnell: No Answer

According to the Washington Post, Bob McDonnell refuses to talk about his role in the states legendary budget battle of 2004, embracing President George W. Bush’s economic philosophy and supporting restrictions on abortion, birth control and stem-cell research.

Bob McDonnell has a chance to come clean at this week’s debate at the Fairfax County Chamber of Commerce. The people of Virginia will be watching.

Bob McDonnell: No Answer

Gubernatorial Debate: Deeds v. McDonnell

September 17th, 10:45 am
Fairfax Chamber of Commerce Debate

47 days from the November 3rd General Election on September 17th at the Capital One complex in McLean, VA, State Senator Creigh Deeds and former Attorney General Bob McDonnell will be facing off to share their respective plans as the next Governor for the Commonwealth of Virginia.

Moderated by David Gregory of Meet the Press and featuring a panel of respected journalists, Creigh Deeds (D) and Bob McDonnell (R) will provide answers to the tough questions that will help shape the future of our Commonwealth.

The debate starts at 10:45 am and it’s available live on the Internet, but won’t be televised live statewide. In Northern Virginia watch live on NewsChannel8.

Support Creigh Deeds before the Fairfax Chamber of Commerce Debate – join us Thursday morning, September 17th 8:30 am at 7600 Colshire Dr, McLean, 22102 for coffee and doughnuts then walk with us to the Capitol One Complex to cheer for him.

The McDonnell F-Bomb

In an interview Friday morning on WTOP’s “The Politics Program with Mark Plotkin,” McDonnell dropped the F-word on live radio [caution: audio clip contains explicit expletive language]. Plotkin asked if McDonnell would consider an increase in the state gasoline tax to help fund the transportation budget. McDonnell said no, and uttered the expletive during his response (see text below).

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Robocalls by Politicians/Political Organizations Allowed

New Rule Prohibiting Unwanted "Robocalls" to Take Effect on September 1 (source, click here)

… calls not covered by the TSR – including those from politicians, banks, telephone carriers, and most charitable organizations – are not covered by the new prohibition.

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Restrict

DEEDS  |   WAGNER   |   SHANNON

The Washington Post calls Bob McDonnell a Culture Warrior. What does that mean for Virginia?

It means:

• Bob McDonnell introduced 35 bills to restrict a women’s right to choose.
• He wants to outlaw abortion — even in cases of rape and incest.
• And McDonnell opposed birth control for married adults.

Learn more about Bob McDonnell’s crusade to take Virginia backwards at http://www.bobmcdonnellblueprint.com.

Watch the video, click here.

FCDC Endorses Health Care Reform

At the July 28 FCDC meeting a unanimous vote for a resolution in support of health care reform was passed, and in particular for the public option. The FCDC National Affairs Committee (NAC) was tasked with writing the resolution, and they put a lot of effort into it. The resolution was released September 3rd, 2009.

The Fairfax County Democratic Committee Unanimously Endorses Health Care Reform that Includes a Comprehensive Public Option Similar to Medicare

Whereas, health care is a moral issue; President Obama said,“ I think it should be a right for every American,” and Senator Ted Kennedy said, “We will…guarantee that every American…will have decent, quality health care as a fundamental right and not just a privilege”; and

Whereas, the 2008 Democratic Party platform called for guaranteed healthcare for all; the nation overwhelmingly elected President Obama and Democratic majorities to Congress with a mandate to deliver healthcare for all; FCDC members, other Virginia Democrats, and thousands of new volunteers gave their time, resources and trust to mandate Democratic candidates to fulfill this promise; and

Whereas, 14,000 Americans lose their health insurance every day; approximately one million Virginians lacked health insurance in 2007, and the economic downturn has driven those numbers far higher today; over the last nine years premiums have gone up four times faster than family incomes; health care costs cause a bankruptcy in America every 30 seconds; 62.1% of all bankruptcies in 2007 were medical; most medical debtors were well educated, owned homes, and had middle-class occupations; three-quarters of the medically bankrupt were insured, but their coverage was insufficient to protect them from financial collapse; half of American families are rationing medical care because they can’t afford it, and within a decade, one out of every four dollars we earn will be spent on health care; and

Whereas, rationing health care according to ability to pay has diminished the overall health of our citizens to the point that, in comparison to other nations, the United States has been ranked thirty-six in quality by the World Health Organization; and

Whereas, skyrocketing health care costs are contributing to the current economic crisis, weighing heavily on American family, business, and government budgets;  health care reform is economic reform because the economy is an integrated system that includes health care, and to help restore our economy and secure our nation’s fiscal future real health care reform is essential; and

Whereas, President Obama has repeatedly stated …”that one of the best ways to bring down costs, provide more choices and ensure quality is a Public Option that will force the insurance companies to compete and keep them honest.”; and

Whereas, former Governor Howard Dean said,“ Medicare is cheaper, it is more efficient and a far smaller percentage of dollars that goes into it is spent on non-health-care items. It’s about five times as expensive to insure yourself with a private health insurance than it is with Medicare. So that’s what the Public Option looks like…”; and

Whereas, administrative costs for Medicare total around 3%; private health insurers spend 15%-20% on the administration of their plans (campaign contributions, underwriting, billing, sales, marketing, advertising, lobbyist and executive salaries, corporate profits), evincing the inefficiency of such systems in contrast to a comprehensive Public Option similar to Medicare; and

Whereas, if US private insurer costs aren’t constrained, private insurance premiums for employer-sponsored coverage are projected to rise 94% by 2020; these swelling private insurance premiums for employer-sponsored coverage reduce American business’s competitiveness in the international marketplace, particularly among other industrialized nations whose citizens enjoy universal health care and whose employers don’t have to subtract ever-increasing employee premium contributions from their bottom line; and

Whereas, lack of competition is a major source of the United States’ uniquely high and rising health costs; a comprehensive Public Option will persuade private insurers to compete more on efficiency and quality, compelling reductions in their administrative costs, and reining in the ballooning growth in overall health care costs; and

Whereas, Congressional Budget Office (CBO) analyses show that offering a strong, comprehensive Public Option as well as private plans through a health coverage exchange will help all Americans, not just the uninsured, by slowing the growth in premiums; and a recent Commonwealth Fund analysis found that offering a comprehensive Public Option alongside private plans to all individuals and employers is our most effective weapon in combating health costs, resulting in a savings as high as $3 Trillion between 2010-2020; and a comprehensive Public Option is the fiscally responsible option; and

Whereas, a comprehensive Public Option would also ensure health care coverage that is portable and available nationwide, regardless of employment status or preexisting medical conditions, while preserving choice of doctors and plans; and

Whereas, in the August, 2009 edition of the Kaiser Health Care Tracking poll, 59 percent of Americans favor “creating a government-administered public health insurance option similar to Medicare to compete with private health insurance plans”; and the American people should be allowed the freedom to choose between a comprehensive Public Option like Medicare or private insurance; and

Whereas, courageous Democratic Senators and Representatives have proposed legislation, including a comprehensive Public Option similar to Medicare, that would provide universal health care coverage and control costs; and

Whereas, there must be a comprehensive Public Option like Medicare in any health reform bill passed this year because providing subsidies for private insurance alone is not true health reform, as that would perpetuate unaffordable monthly premiums, unacceptably high deductibles, crushing co-pays, medical debt, bankruptcy, and denials of care.

Therefore, Be it Resolved that the Fairfax County Democratic Committee (FCDC) unanimously endorses Health Care Reform that includes a comprehensive Public Option similar to Medicare; and

Therefore, Be it Further Resolved that FCDC expects every Democratic member of the Virginia delegation to Congress to actively support health care reform legislation that includes a comprehensive Public Option similar to Medicare.

Protect Our Schools

Governor Kaine’s announcement of another painful round of budget cuts today highlights a crucial difference between Creigh Deeds and his opponent: Governor Kaine found a way to protect K-12 education, and Creigh will protect education in his budgets.  Bob McDonnell, on the other hand, has pledged to take $5.4 billion from our schools to pay for roads.

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