Congratulations to Rebecca and Unstable Isotope for all their work with the state party. With great progressives like them involved in our party, we can hold the corporate shill Tom Carper accountable.
From the Huffington Post:
Yet another state Democratic Party has passed a resolution urging its congressional representatives in Washington to pass a public option for insurance coverage and to use “any available parliamentary means” to do so. This time the target is Sen. Tom Carper, the Delaware Democrat reportedly pushing for a compromise proposal that would allow states to set up their own public plans.
In a little-noticed move two weeks ago, the State Executive Committee of the Delaware Democratic Party unanimously passed a resolution endorsing “a robust public option similar to Medicare.” The authors of the resolution went on to call alternative proposals — including “co-ops or so-called ‘triggers'” — “inadequate in and of themselves to generate either the kind or the amount of competition needed to keep medical and insurance costs down.”
And in a clear effort to get the attention of their elected colleagues in Washington, the resolution’s authors sent a copy to “all members of Congress who represent its members,” including Democratic Senators Thomas Carper and Ted Kaufman as well as Republican Representative Mike Castle