Target: Kay Granger
The campaign to garner enough congressional votes to override the President's veto of SCHIP is headed for the airwaves. A bunch of groups with a bunch of acronyms -- AFL-CIO, AFSCME, SEIU, Moveon, Americans United for Change, USAction and True Majority are paying for a national TV, online and grassroots campaign to "save children's healthcare". The TV ads begin running Monday.
You won't see in in Austin. The commercials will only air in ads in key Republican U.S. House districts, and one of those districts is that of Republican Representative Kay Granger (TX-12) up in Fort Worth.
It's an effort to put pressure on the 15 to 20 members of Congress needed to override the veto. More is planned for the week of the veto override vote (Oct 15th), including vigils across the country. The full list of members being targeted to override the veto are after the jump.
Republican House Members being targeted to vote to override President veto of children’s healthcare
Aderholt (AL)
Boozman (AR)
Bilbray (CA)
Doolittle (CA)
Musgrave (CO)
Bilirakis (FL)
Brown-Waite (FL)
Feeney (FL)
Keller (FL)
Latham (IA)
Biggert (IL)
Johnson (IL)
Roskam (IL)
Weller (IL)
Alexander (LA)
Knollenberg (MI)
McCotter (MI)
Walberg(MI)
Miller (MI)
Bachmann (MN)
Graves (MO)
Frelinghuysen (NJ)
Garrett (NJ)
Saxton (NJ)
Kuhl (NY)
Reynolds (NY)
Hayes (NC)
Chabot (OH)
Peterson (PA)
Granger (TX)
Drake (VA)
Forbes (VA)
Herger (CA)
Cubin (WY)
Comments
Why is Austin's own Mike McCaul not on that list? His district is much more in play than Granger's, he only got 55% against an unfunded candidate last time, and voted against Chip. Hmmmm...
Posted by: Doug | October 10, 2007 10:28 PM