HEALTHCARE 4 ALL PA-PUSH: Single Payer Activities at the Democratic Convention

Tuesday, August 21, 2012

Single Payer Activities at the Democratic Convention

From the Progressive Democrats of America. For those of you who will be in Charlotte for the Democratic National Convention there will be events for Single Payer activists.

News About Our Medicare for All Slate
and Convention Activities in Charlotte

Dear Supporter,
On July 3rd I announced that I would join the PDA National Advisory Board, so I could help organize the PDA Medicare for All slate


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during this election cycle. In that short time, we have been very busy and have assembled a great team. We have also raised $20,000 of our announced goal of $50,000 to support that slate!

Click here if you want to donate to help
PDA's Medicare for All slate win this fall!

I have good news to announce--while most of the national groups sat on the sidelines, our team went all out to help re-elect PDA's good friend--and the author of the single-payer health care bill in Congress!--Rep. John Conyers, Jr.
PDA's Mike Hersh was on the ground in Detroit while Mike Fox led the volunteer phone bank team that made GOTV phone calls from all over the country. Thanks to your donations, we were able to help Rep. Conyers overcome a stiff challenge to win his primary with 56% of the vote!
And you will be glad to know that since I last wrote to you, we have added one of the great progressive voices of our time to our slate, Alan Grayson, now running to win back his House seat in Florida. Next week the PDA National Team will be returning to IL-13 for the third month in a row, in our effort to help our ally, Dr. David Gill, win his open seat race. Then for the two weeks after that, the PDA team's focus will be the primary elections in Arizona, where we will be campaigning for two of our favorites, the great Congressman Raul Grijalva plus PDA-endorsed candidate David Schapira.

Please click here to help PDA work in these critical House races!

Finally, I am excited to announce that I will be joining Rep. Raul Grijalva, Rep. John Conyers, Rep. Jim McGovern , Rep. Keith Ellison and Nation writer John Nichols at "Progressive Central" in Charlotte on Tuesday, September 4th, the day the Democratic National Convention kicks off. We will be gathering to discuss how we use our inside/outside strategies to build the progressive wing of the Democratic Party during this tough election season.

Here's the link for PDA's "Progressive Central" sessions; please join us there!

Please join us in Charlotte that day if you can--we need all our progressive voices to help plan our future strategies. And thanks for all you do for a better health care system for everyone!

For Medicare for All,
Dr. Quentin Young
P.S.--I am personally very honored to be part of the luncheon ceremonies on September 4th, where we will be paying tribute to several of our great Medicare for All leaders, including Rep. Conyers, the Communications Workers of America, and National Nurses United.