{"id":1903,"date":"2009-06-29T11:15:51","date_gmt":"2009-06-29T15:15:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=1903"},"modified":"2009-06-29T11:15:51","modified_gmt":"2009-06-29T15:15:51","slug":"jonathan-zasloffs-love-note-to-the-dscc-public-health-care-option","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2009\/06\/29\/jonathan-zasloffs-love-note-to-the-dscc-public-health-care-option\/","title":{"rendered":"Jonathan Zasloff&#8217;s Love Note to the DSCC&#8211;Public (Health Care) Option"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Zasloff is a UCLA Law Professor who contributes to the public policy blog, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.samefacts.com\/\">SameFacts (The Reality-Based Community)<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>On 23 June 2009, Zasloff posted <a href=\"http:\/\/www.samefacts.com\/archives\/democrats_in_congress_\/2009\/06\/my_love_note_to_the_dscc.php\">My love note to the DSCC<\/a> (Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee). It makes a lot of sense to me and to friends to whom I forwarded it.\u00a0 Zasloff&#8217;s post says, in part,<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This morning I got an e-mail from Claire McCaskill (theoretically), asking for my contribution to the DSCC. It was pretty boilerplate, but on health care, it was truly nauseating, refusing to endorse anything but &#8220;health care choices&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t know whether anyone reads the responses, but here is what I wrote back:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8216;I have been a contributor to the DSCC for years, but until and unless the Democratic Caucus strongly endorses an effective public option in health care reform, the DSCC will never again see a penny of my money. I see no reason to give to a caucus that consistently subverts the will of the overwhelming majority of Americans who want a strong public option. I hope very much that I shall be able to contribute to the DSCC in the future, and am waiting for the Caucus&#8217; actions in this regard.&#8217;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;&#8230; Every single fundraising e-mail and call over the next several weeks should be given this response. No money unless there is a strong public option. Period.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A fundraiser called me last night, and I told him the same thing.  No public option, no money.  End of story.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Every Democratic incumbent that contacts you should get the same line.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Every single call.  Every single time.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zasloff is a UCLA Law Professor who contributes to the public policy blog, SameFacts (The Reality-Based Community). On 23 June 2009, Zasloff posted My love note to the DSCC (Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee). It makes a lot of sense to me and to friends to whom I forwarded it.\u00a0 Zasloff&#8217;s post says, in part, &#8220;This [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[167],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-richardhsposts","czr-hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1903"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1903\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1904,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1903\/revisions\/1904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}