[Sosfbay-discuss] Appeal from HC4A for 2006

[Andrea Dorey]

FYI.  A clipping from Health Care 4 All's latest email, enclosed within 
the ***.

Note paragraph 4.  Now is the time for all good [people] to come to the 
aid of THEIR party!  They have carried the heavy water for us on this 
issue—I just hope that we the Green Party can muster the strength and 
cooperation to support HC4A in their unrelenting effort to make health 
care accessible to each and every resident of California.
Andrea


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Happy New Year! As we carry on our work to establish universal health 
care in California, it is clear that 2006 will be a very important 
year.  The campaign is gaining momentum, both in Sacramento and 
throughout the state. 
 
We have seen great progress in building a network of grassroots 
community support, and in fostering awareness here in Sacramento about 
the need for universal health care.  The 300 organizations and 
thousands of individual supporters who have endorsed SB 840 have done 
an excellent job at keeping CHIRA on the radar screen at the capitol. 
However, legislators need to see this level of support coming from 
their own districts.  This is our task for 2006. 
 
Last year, SB 840 passed three important Senate committees before it 
was approved on the Senate Floor; it then ended the year with a key 
victory in the Assembly Health Committee.  Our goal in 2006 is nothing 
short of moving SB 840 to the Governor’s desk. This is no small task 
because the lowest hurdles have already been cleared.
 
To do this, it is critical that supporters think creatively and 
collaboratively about ways to build deep-rooted support in their 
community and convey this effectively to their elected 
representatives.  To participate in this growing network of active 
supporters, get in touch with your regional president of Health Care 
for All by visiting www.healthcareforall.org. If you are a physician, 
contact the California Physicians Alliance (CaPA) by emailing 
capa at jps.net. Additionally, if you belong to another organization 
endorsing SB 840 (see attached endorsement list [not included in this 
clipping, ALD]), their leadership can often help you plug into work 
happening around the state....
 
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Andrea Dorey
Santa Clara County Green Party
408-306-1900  (cell phone: short messages please)

Chinese Proverbs:
"Serving the powerful is like sleeping with a tiger."
	and
"It is difficult to get off a tiger's back."
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