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Elizabeth Dole was against expanding the State Children Health Insurance Program before she was for it.

Dole endangered the health of 123,000 North Carolina children when she voted six times this year against fully funding the program.

Last week, she was among 28 senators who sent a letter asking Senate leadership to expand SCHIP.

“Elizabeth Dole is playing election year politics with the health of our children,” said NCDP Chair Jerry Meek.

As expected, the veto override vote fell short. 13 votes short.

Robin Hayes must decide tomorrow if he wants to show his loyalty to President Bush or to North Carolina's 8th District.

The badly needed override of President Bush's veto against State Children's Health Insurance expansion goes to vote tomorrow. And as North Carolina Governor Mike Easley has said...

"We need this bill to serve North Carolina children currently eligible for the program," the governor says. "It is not for North Carolina adults, nor for children in families earning $80,000, nor illegal immigrants, nor for those with insurance right now. Those who make these claims are not telling the truth."

Many already have written about the extremely sickening attacks on a 12yr. old young man, Graeme Frost, and his family.

You can find a reading of others thoughts Here, Here, Here, Here, Here, and Here. And if you just search his name you'll come up with 41 other hits under Diary's.

On Thursday, Congress will attempt to override President Bush's veto of the S-CHIP veto. It looks like the Senate will have the votes to make this happen, but House is in doubt. It is crucial that you call your legislator to let them know just how important children's health care is to North Carolina. Let them know that it's more important to you than a tobacco tax. Let them know that they need to send a message to President Bush that Americans have had enough of his Business before People policies.

Do you need some background on what the S-CHIP program has meant to NC? I thought you might. More after the break.

Hi folks. As I think most of my friends here know, I'm the Communications Director for Larry Kissell who's running against Robin Hayes in North Carolina's 8th District.

Yesterday Robin Hayes quite inadvertantly reminded his constituents, that no matter how many times he's succumbed to Bush arm-twisting over their interests during the years, they were at least always on his mind.

His explanation for turning his back on the children of working families and voting against SCHIP carried the very lyrical title:

"Jobs, Economic Development and More Opportunity for the 8th District ARE ALWAYS ON MY MIND"

Who do you think is more believable when he says you were always on his mind?

I was SO disappointed that I accidentally deleted my post last week about Max Borders, the free-market extremist at Civitas whose philosophy include this precious assertion:

"If boiling people alive best served the interests of the American people, then it would neither be moral or immoral." Max Borders, Civitas Institute

As many of you know, Mad Max and I had a bit of a tussle last week when he engaged in an ad hominem attack to accuse me of engaging in ad hominem attacks. When the dust settled, I thought we had lost dear Max and that he had been terminated for cause (as he should have been). He was noticeably absent from most of his regular stomping grounds, and unusually quiet for a paid-Puppet blogger.

Never fear, though. Max is still around, and is apparently still tasked with being the loose canon for the Civitas Institute.

I'm just mad.

New York Governor Eliot Spitzer announced today that he and seven other governors are suing the Shrub for not letting the states expand their State Children’s Health Insurance Programs. Something tells me that there's another governor who used to be an attorney general that needs to join this suit--namely, our governor, Mike Easley.

I made this petition to call upon Bush to sign SCHIP. I can't imagine him not doing this, but them again both Dole and Burr were comfortable voting against NC children, and the White House probably told them to.

He's certainly threatening to veto:
http://www.kaisernetwork.org/

Please sign the petition.

http://ncdp.org/petition_schip

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