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Okay, this is it.

It’s time for us progressive, liberal, or just plain sane people to get mad.

I just got back from a meeting with Senator Gillibrand’s staff and they told me a sick, sad story.

One of the staffers was returning to the office the other day when she was very physically confronted by two women at her office door. They immediately started yelling at her with irrational comments about health care reform including how this was not only going to “destory their lives, but the lives of their children.” They said that they “owned her and the office” and no amount of soft words or rational arguements was going to calm them down. Then they roughly shoved her out of the way to storm into the office. That’s drawing the line when you assault a district staffer over health care reform – where is this going next?

This is how crazy they are.

These staffers are putting up with a lot of abuse by people that are calling and yelling at them about death panels and how they are going to have their Medicare taken away. They are irrational, they don’t listen to truth or logic. It’s draining to the staffers and to their morale.

This happens while we, who want to be logical and fair, weigh our thoughts and are careful not to abuse our relationship with the staff. We feel like it is cheating to call every day – that we are bugging them if we call again and again. We don’t want to seem irrational, we don’t want to cheat.

But I say to you this is war, and we are going to lose if we are not willing to fight.

They want, no wait -they NEED us to call each and every day. All you have to say is “I support health care reform”. You can add more if you want, but you don’t need to.

So, please, make the commitment - call each and every day until Congress passes reform and it goes to President Obama for his signature. The numbers for Senators Schumer and Gillibrand are below. Click here to find out who your member of Congress is.

Schumer:
202-224-6542

Gillibrand:
202-224-4451

Call right now. Call again tomorrow. Do it every day and ask everyone you know to do the same.

Think about how you would feel if you were a staffer, wanting to do the right thing, but at the end of the day you had to put up with 200 crazy phone calls and only 3 people who believed in you and what you were doing bothered to even pick up the phone.