Did you get my letter?

Dear Governor Easley.

Earlier this week, I wrote you a letter asking you to take a leadership role in jump-starting a new approach to Health Care for All in North Carolina. Your automated website responded immediately, thanking me for my interest, followed by an email from a staffer saying she would pass my message along. With all due respect, I'm looking for something a bit more definitive.

When your campaign asked me more than a decade ago to host a fundraiser for you at my home in Chapel Hill, my administrative assistant didn't send you a note saying "thanks for your interest." Not at all. I personally took charge and made the event happen. And I'm glad I did.

But now, "making it happen" is what North Carolina needs from you. People are literally dying because our health care system is so screwed up. And our economy is straining under the burden of exponential growth in health care costs. If you want to do ONE thing to make North Carolina the most competitive state in the Union for business, get Health Care for All moving. You don't have much time left.

Thanks for reading.

Your friend,

James Protzman
Citizen