I’m hoping you’ll help me out a little here. I know some of our Kossacks in Michigan but far from all of you. Would you mind taking a moment in the comments to say what Congressional District you live in? And then besides that, two more items: first, to describe what you know about the activity of your own U.S. Representative in response to the effort to repeal the ACA (temporarily sidetracked), and second, what citizen groups have been doing in your district to support the ACA?
I’ll start with a snapshot of what my representative, Debbie Dingell, has been up to lately.
Last Sunday, she and the MI House representatives from Washtenaw (Donna Lasinski, MI-52; Yousef Rabhi, MI-53; Ronnie Peterson, MI-54; Adam Zemke, MI-55) spoke at a well-attended Town Hall on Eastern Michigan’s campus about the impact of ACA repeal on Michigan.
x Embedded ContentDebbie is about as solid as they come in support of Obamacare, not surprising given her husband’s role in the matter (which he explained via Twitter, at a series starting here).
xWho knew health care could be so complicated?
— John Dingell (@JohnDingell) March 21, 2017Unfortunately, David Trott, from MI-11, is not such a stalwart defender of his constituents’ health and well-being. In case you missed it, the local Indivisible chapters from his district helped coordinate a very successful protest in Novi last Saturday. Eclectablog has a good write-up here, which went viral once people realized the subject matter (and thanks as well perhaps to a boost from Jen Hayden).
So please regale us with what is happening in your district, if you would be so kind. This is one good platform for us to use to share this information in lieu of other effective state-wide MSM.
PS—Tomorrow, Tom Perez and Keith Ellison will be in Michigan for a series of meetings and presentations, including this Town Hall in Detroit, at Ellison’s brother’s church (RSVP here; details provided). I can’t make it but I am confident it’ll be a fascinating event. If anyone does go and wants to write it up for us, that would be great!
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