I checked w/ her offices in Washington and Raliegh last week and they denied her opposition to the public option and would only tell me that she was studying the issue. When I asked about her taking PAC and lobbyists contributions from the health care industry, they used deception to tell me that they are unaware of any campaign contributuins from them. She has accpeted a ton of their money. I told them that I was a contributor to her Senate campaign and worked for her election but if she does not support the public option or votes for a bill without a public option I will worked as hard as I can to defeat her next time around. At that time her office looked me up in the computer and knew who I was and where I lived. She is a real problem here and she needs to be flooded with calls and told she is against the middle class and is going to face major opposition to her re-election. What a fucking disappointment. Tomoorow I am speaking at our health care reform rally in Asheville and I will be sure to educate everyone of her stand of a corporate whore for the health care industry.

I'm going to go out on a limb and guess they include Blue Cross-Blue Shield of NC, the "non-profit" entity with a bloated executive compensation structure and that spends 20% of its income on marketing tha controls the market in North Carolina. They've already said their going to spend a bunch of my premium dollars fighting health reform.

Hagan's now officially on my "Dead to Me" list. I knew she'd be a Blue Dog but figured she'd be better than Bush's lap-poodle Liddy Dole. But this is beyond the pale.

Since the fifties, North Carolina has had a habit of turning out Senators who aren't named "Helms" after a single term. This fact seems to turn their brains into shit (in much the same way that the slightest bit of precipitation of any kind turns the average North Carolina motorist's brains into shit). It causes them to panic and do stupid things to try to hang on to their seat that, in fact, only causes them to lose them.

The problem is that they look to Helms' success for lessons rather than drawing lessons from what caused all the other incumbents to lose. The lesson they draw from Helms tenure is that only money, the dirtier the better and lots of it, can get you reelected. The lesson they should be drawing from the losers is that pissing off the voters to amass your warchest is what gets your ass kicked out of D.C. (North Carolina voters have the memories of inveterate feudists.)

I hope she gets primaried but most likely, she'll end up flipping the seat.

I'd also suggest putting pressure on the entire party in your state. One of the ways the weasels work is to pass the buck around claiming purity for themselves on issues like.

Do what I did when the state party called me last night. I said universal healthcare is my issue and the party is not getting one cent from me until Senator Klobuchar delivers on universal healthcare. Pressure needs to be put on other party members and other levels of the party to let them know that we are holding the entire Democratic Party accountable on this issue and they can't get off the hook by blaming a handful of supposedly "safe" senators and claiming that their hands are tied.

Put pressure on your own Senator to put pressure on the holdouts. Call your Senator and ask you Senator to put pressure on Senator Hagan.

Rockefeller deserves a HUGE attaboy for this:

http://sundaygazettemail.com/News/200906250731

"There is a very small chance any Republicans will vote for this health-care plan. They were against Medicare and Medicaid [created in the 1960s]. They voted against children's health insurance.

"We have a moral choice. This is a classic case of the good guys versus the bad guys. I know it is not political for me to say that," Rockefeller added.

"But do you want to be non-partisan and get nothing? Or do you want to be partisan and end up with a good health- care plan? That is the choice."

Democrats don't win elections in NC without HUGE support from the black community, especially primaries. Hagan is from Greensboro and she knows who has put her and kept her in office.

Obama needs to remind her that if he supports someone against her, she's toast.

So now Hagan's got HER government-paid health care for life, and she wants to make sure no one else gets it. Ain't democracy grand?

Hagan is taking the same position that Elizabeth Dole would have taken had she won the seat back.

A lot of folks upset in this blue dot town. Here's the editorial we published in The Carrboro Citizen
http://www.carrborocitizen.com/main/2009/06/25/hagans-challenge/

What kind of pressure is Harry "Small Balls" Reid putting on her? Kick her off the G-D Committee ASAP. Give her a broom closet office. Do WHATEVER needs to be done, Small Balls.

Remember when Liddy Dole smeared her and we all went crazy and helped nuke Dole back to whatever circle of hell she was born in?

Well, I say Hagan comes up with the goods now.

PAYBACK, BITCH.

She probably has someone reasonably close working for health care or insurance industry. Close relation-wise or money-wise. This just needs to be investigated more thoroughly.

wise up, guys. she will not need her senate seat next time around, because all those big health firms she helped with her Anti- votes will be happy to offer her high-paying jobs!
that's how it works in Washington.
you scratch their back, they scratch yours.
when senators leave office, they know how to cash in.
by the time 2014 rolls around, she will not need this low-paying senate job. big corporations will pay her big bucks, pay-back time.

i can see it coming.