Message By Candlelight: Keep the Public Option
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Demonstrators ask Sen. Lieberman to keep the public option in the Senate health care debate.
About 500 candle-wielding demonstrators let their voices be heard in Stamford Sunday night, urging Sen. Joseph Lieberman to keep the public option in the proposed health care reform bill and let the bill come to a vote in the Senate.
The group included members of the Interfaith Council of Southwestern Connecticut, The Norwalk Hour reports.
The House of Representatives passed the bill by a 220-215 vote last Saturday, and Lieberman has voiced his opposition to the public option proposal.
"As a matter of conscience, I will not allow this bill to come to a final vote," Lieberman told Fox News in reference to new government money to be used for health-care legislation. "I don't want to do that to our children and grandchildren."
Those who attended the vigil started at Stamford High School on Strawberry Hill Avenue and then proceeded across the street to hold a vigil outside Lieberman's home.
Mayor Dan Malloy attended at the vigil.
"We want to move a man's spirit," Malloy told The Hour. "In reforming the system, we need to make health care as universally available as possible. To do that, we must employ a public option."
Posted Monday, Nov 16, 2009 - 9:23 AM EST
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