Brown speaking to a HCAN't rally

In contrast, U.S. Sen. Brown told the admittedly sympathetic crowd gathered Friday morning that he has always supported a single-payer system but that wasn't likely to happen during this Congress. So, he said, he's campaigning for the next best thing: The mix between private and public health coverage.

"The plan we write will deal with the uninsured and underinsured," Brown said.

West Virginia Belly Dancers to Protest for Single Payer Outside Home Office of Congresswoman Capito

US Sen Baucus: Insurers Have To Negotiate On Public Plan

Sen. Max Baucus said Friday the health insurance industry may have to compromise on a public insurance option to cover uninsured people or risk losing a spot at the bargaining table.

Documents reveal how Ohio routed 2004 voting data through company that hosted external Bush Administration email accounts

In an affidavit filed in September, Spoonamore asserted that "any time all information is directed to a single computer for consolidation, it is possible… that single computer will exploit the information for some purpose. ... In the case of Ohio 2004, the only purpose I can conceive for sending all county vote tabulations to a GOP managed Man-in-the-Middle site in Chattanooga before sending the results onward to the Sec. of State, would be to hack the vote at the MIM."

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Progressive Democrats of America's "Healthcare, Not Warfare" tour

PDA National Team Visits Ohio

With just ten days until the election, PDA national director Tim Carpenter led a team of PDA activists from Washington, Maryland, Ireland, Liberia, and Massachusetts into Ohio yesterday. There the team joined with Ohio PDA state coordinators Mary Nichols-Rhodes and Michael Carano, and PDA allies from the California Nurses Association/National Nurses' Organizing Committee (CNA/NNOC) and the Ohio Nurses Association to get out the vote and to advance their joint support for HR 676, the Single Payer Healthcare initiative.

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[UPDATE Initial reports were wrong. Tubbs-Jones is in critical condition. --lambert]

[UPDATE 7:22PM EDT Breaking on CNN: She's gone. What a damn shame. --lambert]

Via Atrios we learn that Cleveland, OH - Congresswoman Stephanie Tubbs- Jones has reportedly had a massive aneurysm and remains on life support Wednesday morning at Huron Road Hospital.

This is doubly sad because Tubbs Jones is a supporter of Medicare for All.

Get involved in bringing single-payer health care to the state of Ohio

Bob and others have been collecting petition signatures for SPAN for nearly five years, in order to get it on the Ohio ballot so citizens can put it to a vote. SPAN doesn’t have the PR budget that big business has, but what it does have in its favor is the support of people who take the time to learn about it.

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Via Crooks and Liars we find out about a Health Care for America Now event:
Time:
Tuesday, July 22 at 11:00 AM
Duration:
1 hour
Host:
Lorraine at Progress Ohio
Location:
The Hyatt on Capitol Square (Columbus, OH)
75 E State St.
Columbus, OH 43215

Update - Politico

Mike Carroll is the only Ohio challenger who has specifically endorsed HR 676.

Stephanie Tubbs Jones says that we must make health care affordable by offering a guaranteed benefit.

Marcy Kaptur says that by reforming health care so that it serves people instead of special interests, every American can have access to affordable, high-quality health care.

It's getting very foily out there.

TOLEDO, OH -- Mayor Carty Finkbeiner on Friday ordered some 200 members of Company A, 1st Battalion, 24th Marines from Grand Rapids, Michigan, out of Toledo just before the unit was supposed to start a weekend of urban warfare training downtown.

The mayor’s spokesperson, Brian Schwartz said, “The mayor asked them to leave because they frighten people. He did not want them practicing and drilling in a highly visible area."

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LIMA, Ohio — The air of Southside is foul-smelling and thick, filled with fumes from an oil refinery and diesel smoke from a train yard, with talk of riot and recrimination, and with angry questions: Why is Tarika Wilson dead? Why did the police shoot her baby?

“This thing just stinks to high heaven, and the police know it,” said Jason Upthegrove, president of the Lima chapter of the N.A.A.C.P. “We’re not asking for answers anymore. We’re demanding them.”

Some facts are known. A SWAT team arrived at Ms. Wilson’s rented house in the Southside neighborhood early in the evening of Jan. 4 to arrest her companion, Anthony Terry, on suspicion of drug dealing, said Greg Garlock, Lima’s police chief. Officers bashed in the front door and entered with guns drawn, said neighbors who saw the raid.

Moments later, the police opened fire, killing Ms. Wilson, 26, and wounding her 14-month-old son, Sincere, Chief Garlock said. One officer involved in the raid, Sgt. Joseph Chavalia, a 31-year veteran, has been placed on paid administrative leave.

Beyond these scant certainties, there is mostly rumor and rage. The police refuse to give any account of the raid, pending an investigation by the Ohio attorney general.

—Police Shooting of Mother and Infant Exposes a City’s Racial Tension

I've been a little slow to formulate this rebuttal to Manjoo's response, in Salon, to Robert Kennedy's article on the Republican theft of Ohio 2004--perhaps because there's so much detail (and rebuttal (never mind the obfuscation)).

But if you boil it down, it seems to me that what Manjoo is saying is that Kennedy didn't prove there was fraud, therefore there was no fraud.

But the essence of fraud is concealment; Kennedy can't produce absolute proof (absent confession, or an investigation by Democrats with subpoena power). So Manjoo's article sets up a straw man.

But it really seems to be that the burden of proof is on the Republicans and their apologists to prove the election was clean.

Let's simplify the example, leave out Ohio and votes, and do a little thought experiment.

Let's say your friend was going to count out some money for you, that both you and your friend agree that you are owed. But you don't know the exact amount of money you are owed. Can you trust your friend? I'd like to say yes, but let's see. Here are the conditions:

Alert reader Tinfoil Hat Boy directs us to the most excellent Brad Blog:

A damning and detailed feature article, written by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., for Rolling Stone and documenting evidence of the theft of the 2004 Presidential Election is set to hit newstands this Friday, The BRAD BLOG can now confirm. The online version of the article will be posted tomorrow (Thursday) morning.

The article -- headlined on the cover as "Did Bush Steal the 2004 Election?: How 350,000 Votes Disappeared in Ohio" -- has been several months in development and will contend that a concerted effort was undertaken by high-level Republican officials to steal the Election in Ohio -- and thus the country -- in 2004!

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Brad and JFK are buddies:

A damning and detailed feature article, written by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., for Rolling Stone and documenting evidence of the theft of the 2004 Presidential Election is set to hit newstands this Friday, The BRAD BLOG can now confirm. The online version of the article will be posted tomorrow (Thursday) morning.

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