Legal Commentary

Healthcare Heroes

By Professor University of Miami School of Law

DemocracyForAmerica.com has a list of “healthcare heroes”: Congresspersons who are standing up for the public option.

There are three members of Florida delegation listed there:

Corrine Brown (FL-03)
Robert Wexler (FL-19)
Alcee Hastings (FL-23)

Notably absent are Kendrick Meek (FL-17), who is running for Senator and you would think might want to get out in front on this but who is running to the right almost as fast as Charlie Crist, and progressive folk like Grayson, Alan (Fl-8), Ron Kein (FL-22) and Debbie Wasserman-Schultz (FL-20).

Well, maybe Wasserman-Schultz isn’t such a surprise. But Alan Grayson definitely is.

It is a sad thing that contributions often speak louder than polls. If you want to contribute to show these healthcare stalwarts that you appreciate their backbone, click on the thermometer on the right.

Full post as published by Discourse.net on August 19, 2009 (boomark / email).