FreedomWorks Makes Big Anti-Obamacare Push
Photo Credit: John ShinkleConservatives are plotting an aggressive push during the last two weeks of August to boost the controversial effort in Congress to oppose spending bills this fall that contain funding for Obamacare.
FreedomWorks is working with local conservative activists to question senators at home-state events about their objections to a letter spearheaded by Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) vowing to vote against bills with funding for the health care law. That letter is stuck at 13 signers and FreedomWorks is keeping a running tally of senators’ support or opposition to the letter. Heritage Action for America also plans a barnstorming tour this month intended to drive more senators’ support to the letter.
“It’s sad to see once-great organizations sacrifice years of credibility on the altar of bad strategy,” said a Republican Senate aide.
Among the lawmakers being targeted by FreedomWorks are GOP Sens. Richard Burr of North Carolina, Tom Coburn of Oklahoma, Lindsey Graham of South Carolina and John Cornyn of Texas. The activists plan to demonstrate outside the office of Burr in response to his comment that a shutdown over Obamacare funding is the “dumbest idea I’ve ever heard of” and attend a Coburn town hall in Muskogee, Okla., to ask why Coburn considers the tactic “dishonest.”
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