{"id":9284,"date":"2009-08-07T10:43:19","date_gmt":"2009-08-07T17:43:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=9284"},"modified":"2009-08-07T10:43:19","modified_gmt":"2009-08-07T17:43:19","slug":"rightwing-groups-organize-astroturf-campaign-to-defeat-health-care-reform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2009\/08\/07\/rightwing-groups-organize-astroturf-campaign-to-defeat-health-care-reform\/","title":{"rendered":"Rightwing Groups Organize Astroturf Campaign to Defeat Health Care Reform"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/download\/DailyDigest-080709\/2009_08_07_fang.mp3\">Listen to this segment <\/a><\/li><\/ul>| <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/download\/DailyDigest-080709\/2009_08_07_uprising.MP3\"> the entire program<\/a> <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=right width=45% src=\"http:\/\/msnbcmedia.msn.com\/j\/MSNBC\/Components\/Video\/090806\/n_maddow_violence_090806.300w.jpg\"\/>Conservatives are already celebrating the delay in health care legislation as a victory to quash reform. Now that Congress is on recess touring their districts to interact with constituents, the fight has been moved to localized town hall meetings. Right wing groups like Americans for Prosperity, and their front groups, like Patients United, have descended on Congressional Democrats supporting a public health care option, including Lloyd Doggett of Texas, Patrick Murphy of Pennsylvania, Tim Bishop of New York, Frank Kratovil of Maryland, Steve Kagan of Wisconsin, and Steve Driehaus of Ohio. A video of a right-wing mob facing down Representative Doggett in Austin, Texas has gone viral. The activists are largely the same groups that organized the so-called Tea Party demonstrations earlier this year around the economic stimulus legislation. Their defacto allies in the health insurance industry are busy monitoring their progress by sending staffers to 30 town halls meetings in states across the country. Meanwhile, a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sickforprofit.com\">new online video<\/a> produced by Brave New Films exposes the mind-bogglingly vast salaries and stock options of health insurance CEOs, juxtaposed with the routine denial of life-saving patient services. <\/p>\n<p><em>GUEST: Lee Fang, blogger at <a href=\"http:\/\/ThinkProgress.org\">ThinkProgress.org<\/a>. <\/em><\/p>\n<p>Rep. Diane Watson &#8211; CD 33 (Hollywood, Los Feliz, Silverlake, Koreatown, mid-Wilshire, Crenshaw, Ladera Heights, Baldwin Hills, View Park)<br \/>\nFriday, 08\/07 01:00 PM &#8211; 03:00 PM: Open Small Business Forum &#8211; Los Angeles District Office, 4322 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angelos, CA, 90010<\/p>\n<p>Rep. Lucille Roybal-Allard &#8211; CD 34 (Downtown Los Angeles, Chinatown, Westlake, Boyle Heights, Commerce, Downey, Huntington Park, Bellflower, Torrance)<br \/>\nSaturday, 08\/08 09:00 AM &#8211; 02:00 PM: Open Foreclosure Forum &#8211; Downey Adult School, 12340 Woodruff Avenue, Downey, CA, 90241<\/p>\n<p>Rep. Adam Schiff &#8211; CD 29 (Burbank, Glendale, Altadena, Pasadena, South Pasadena, Monterey Park, Alhambra, Temple City)<br \/>\nTuesday, 08\/11 07:00 PM &#8211; 08:30 PM: Health Care Town Hall &#8211; Alhambra Civic  Center Library Community Room, 101 S. First Street, Alhambra CA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>| the entire program Conservatives are already celebrating the delay in health care legislation as a victory to quash reform. Now that Congress is on recess touring their districts to interact with constituents, the fight has been moved to localized town hall meetings. Right wing groups like Americans for Prosperity, and their front groups, like [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-program"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9284\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}