I am unsure who is pushing for this and who isn't. MoveOn's publicized efforts have been mostly about "outside" rather than "inside" as far as I've seen: Running ads to pressure Senators to support the public option, raising money for health care proponents, holding public demonstrations and vigils, sending letters to the editor, getting people to town hall meetings in August, etc. Individual MoveOn councils develop their own more specific plans for things like phonebanking. Here in Camberville I spoke to someone from the local Organizing for America group (aka the former Obama campaign) about this and I think she liked my suggestion. They hadn't thought of it before our conversation, they'd just been making calls to supporters to generate calls to members of Congress asking them to support a strong public option (but without details beyond that).
Mostly, I developed the strategies in this post and the one before it from what I learned at Netroots Nation this year. Most notably, I learned a lot from a ~20 minute conversation in the hallway with Darcy Burner (currently organizing the House Progressive Caucus) and about 4 other people (including blogger Digby), and from a ~2 hour panel/tutorial on the mechanics of House & Senate process with a focus on what points in their processes are the key points where progressives can apply influence.
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Date: 2009-10-06 01:31 (UTC)Mostly, I developed the strategies in this post and the one before it from what I learned at Netroots Nation this year. Most notably, I learned a lot from a ~20 minute conversation in the hallway with Darcy Burner (currently organizing the House Progressive Caucus) and about 4 other people (including blogger Digby), and from a ~2 hour panel/tutorial on the mechanics of House & Senate process with a focus on what points in their processes are the key points where progressives can apply influence.