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Monday, August 10th, 2009Protestors Rally Against Obama Health Care Plan
Sunday, August 9th, 20092 of the news stations in Austin covered the event and they BOTH under counted us…imagine that! Here are the stories from their sites with the links to the actual report. The NBC affiliate has video on their site.
Protestors rally against Obama health care plan
8/9/2009 5:05 PM
By: News 8 Austin Staff
Hundreds of protestors rallied on the steps of the Capitol Sunday, most demonstrating against President Barack Obama’s national health care initiative.Protestors chanted, “Kill the bill. Kill the bill.”
Only a handful of people were there to support the president’s plan.
“I’m a veteran. I would like to see everybody have a good health care program. That’d be fine, but find the money to pay for it and find the same one for the Congress and the Senate as they got for me and then I’d be happy,” San Antonio resident Amos Joel Jones said.
The crowd was estimated to be about 250 people
Hundreds protest against
Obama plan
Protestors say health plan is too
intrusive
Updated: Sunday, 09 Aug 2009, 6:32 PM CDT
Published : Sunday, 09 Aug 2009, 6:32 PM CDT
AUSTIN (KXAN) – Hundreds of people lined the stairs of the state capitol on Sunday afternoon to rally against President Obama’s health care plan.
About 200 people attended the afternoon protest. Most of the people said the President’s health care plan is too much government intrusion.
The plan is known as America’s Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009. It would give Americans a public health care option and allow those who are satisfied with their coverage to keep it.
“This is letting the people know that Obama and his cronies aren’t going to push this down our throats. We will fight it,” said John Edwards who traveled 200 miles to attend the protest.
Lizzette Sciski asked, “for Obama and Congress to sit there and think that we can just take a piece meal and take a number like it happens in so many countries, how about if they do it?”
In Washington, many lawmakers are taking the summer break as a time to speak to their constituents about health care reform.
President Obama warning Americans, however, that some are spewing misleading information and outlandish claims to defeat what
he calls “the best chance of reform we have ever had.”
Tell them NO Rally In Austin
Saturday, August 8th, 2009President Obama’s grassroots arm called Organizing for America is sponsoring a rally in Austin on the South steps of the Texas Capitol. They hope to have a huge turnout to raise support for the planned government takeover of health care. We need to outnumber them, and we can easily do it!
Texas State Capitol 1100 N Congress Austin, TX 78701
Contact Nadia and Katharine at littlechunli@hotmail.com – they are organizing car pools to the Sunday, August 9th rally at the capitol in Austin.
Bring your friends and your protest signs. All signs need to be about the healthcare issue. Please keep things civil and respectful – don’t take away from our message with crass signs, logos, or slogans. Our message to Congress stands strong on its own: Hands Off My Healthcare!
Having said that, we also don’t ask that individuals hide their concerns, anger, or frustration that Congress isn’t willing to live under the laws they pass for the rest of us.
San Antonio Tea Party
