(After reading this, please get on the phone, call your senators and representatives and White House, so they know how MOST people actually feel about this disaster-in-the-making!)
Organizing for America--
It's late; I know you've gotten a lot of messages from us recently, and
everyone here at OFA headquarters is pretty tired. But the last reports
of calls and commitments are just coming in from events on the West
Coast, and I wanted to share the news with you.
As you know, we set a big goal: 100,000 calls to Congress placed or
committed to in a single day by OFA supporters and allied
organizations. By 2:30 p.m., you had crushed it. So, we gulped and said
let's go for 200,000, not knowing what would happen. But the calls just
kept pouring in -- keeping phones ringing off the hook in congressional
offices in D.C. and your representatives' district offices around the
country.
Then, OFA supporters gathered in over 1,000 living rooms and community
centers from Macon, Georgia to Missoula, Montana. You called hundreds
of thousands of key voters in your community and got them to agree to
call Congress and speak out for reform, too. President Obama joined in
at a call party in New York -- and he had some amazing words of support
for the folks like you who make this movement possible.
I'm looking at the numbers, and with almost all of the reports now in,
the tally wasn't 200,000 calls placed or pledged -- it was 315,023. You
did it.
Take a moment to watch the President's inspiring words to OFA volunteers on this incredible day.
Your voice was overwhelming -- with reports in the media of
congressional offices "completely crushed with calls." CBS News
described your effort as an "onslaught." And a congressional aide was
quoted with a common response, saying their office was deluged by
"pretty much non-stop health care calls from OFA."
You set a new OFA record, you caught the national media's attention,
and you certainly put Congress on notice. But you know that's not what
really matters.
The message I sent earlier talked about a woman, Jenny U., whose
insurance company cut off her coverage because they decided her kidney
donation to her sick daughter counted as a "pre-existing condition."
What really matters is that today you brought America one giant,
irreversible step closer to being a place where no one will ever have
to suffer that kind of injustice again. That's what all the messages,
late nights, and phone calls ultimately add up to. It's what makes
everything we do together worthwhile -- and it's why we'll keep
fighting together until the job is done.
Watch President Obama's special message to you from a call party in New York:
http://my.barackobama.com/TTDreport
Thank you, so much, for being part of the team.
Sincerely,
Mitch
Mitch Stewart
Director
Organizing for America
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