[big campaign] TV Ad Exposing GOP Strategy for Killing Health Care Reform Gets Wide Notice

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www.americansunitedforchange.org <http://www.americansunitedforchange.org/> FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Jeremy Funk, 202-470-5878 DATE: July 28, 2009 Lauren Weiner, 202-470-5870 New TV Ad Exposing GOP Strategy for Killing Health Care Reform Gets Wide Notice Click Here to View "Snail" <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7684tTVUeI> See media coverage below... <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kmyxAQB5BBg> This Week With George Stephanopoulos, 7/26/09 <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kmyxAQB5BBg> http://voices.washingtonpost.com/thefix/morning-fix/072709morning-fix-wh ats-next-f.html#more Morning Fix Click It! : Americans United, a liberal outside group, will launch a new ad <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7684tTVUeI> today on D.C. cable stations using a snail(!) to push back against the Republican messaging that the White House is moving too quickly on health care reform. As a snail crawls across the screen, the ad's narrator says that for the past fifteen years the health care debate has hardly moved at all; "that's because when something goes slow enough, it's easy to kill dead in its tracks," the narrator says as a black loafer crushes the unsuspecting snail. The ad buy is "five figures" according to a source close the group. By Chris Cillizza | July 27, 2009; 6:00 AM ET http://www.politico.com/playbook/ By: MIKE ALLEN <http://www.politico.com/reporters/MikeAllen.html> on July 27, 2009 @ 7:49 AM OUT TODAY FROM AMERICANS UNITED FOR CHANGE -- "Snail," a new spot going up on DC cable this week (five-figure buy) on GOP "slow it down" talking point: "The Republicans claim the health insurance reform debate has been moving at lightning speed. In fact for 15 years, it's hardly moved at all. ... Tell Congress you want health insurance reform NOW." YouTube <http://tr.im/ubYx%20> http://theplumline.whorunsgov.com/republican-party/new-ad-bashes-gop-for -blocking-health-care-reform-for-15-years/ The Plum Line <http://theplumline.whorunsgov.com> Greg Sargent's blog New Ad Bashes GOP For Blocking Health Care Reform - For 15 Years <http://theplumline.whorunsgov.com/republican-party/new-ad-bashes-gop-fo r-blocking-health-care-reform-for-15-years/> This new ad being launched by White House allies, which blasts Republicans in Congress for blocking reform, is probably the most direct effort yet to link current GOP obstructionism to the successful scuttling of reform in the early nineties. The new spot, paid for by the labor-backed Americans United For Change, is going up on D.C. cable this week, targeting insiders as the health care wars enter a decisive phase: "The Republicans claim the health insurance reform debate has been moving at lightning speed. In fact for 15 years, it's hardly moved at all," the ad says. "Now the Republicans say Congress should slow down? That's because when something goes slow enough it's easy to kill it dead in its tracks." The spot echoes the White House message that the GOP is intent right now on killing reform at all costs, but also links it to the larger story about the 15-years-long obstructionism of entrenched special interests - as symbolized by the well-heeled foot squashing the snail. http://www.swamppolitics.com/news/politics/blog/2009/07/healthcare_snail s_pace_for_a_r.html Healthcare: 'Snail's' pace for a reason? <http://www.swamppolitics.com/news/politics/blog/2009/07/healthcare_snai ls_pace_for_a_r.html> Posted July 27, 2009 8:15 AM by Mark Silva On the criticism that Congress is rushing into healthcare reform, President Barack Obama suggests that they've been working onit for eight months --since he made it clear after his election that he would pursue long-sought reform this year. But Americans United for Change suggests that Congress has had nearly two decades to work on this, since President Clinton made it clear that he was pursuing reform. It "hardly moved at all'' from 1993 to 2007, the group says. With the clock ticking on summer sessions, the House pushing for a bill this week and the Senate delaying action until September, Americans United for Change is putting up a cable TV ad on capital screens warning that there is reason for the slow-walk that Republicans want to take on healthcare reform. Republican leaders insist they don't want to rush a "bad" bill into law. (Some conservative Democrats are slow-walking, too.) Turning up the volume, this is the text of the ad, above, which the group is airing on cable television stations in the Washington area this week, the week in which the White House had hoped to have votes from both the House and Senate on healthcare: "The Republicans claim the health insurance reform debate has been moving at lightning speed. (Visual: animation of a snail inching past dated sign posts, starting at the year '1993' and gradually progressing to '2009' throughout the spot] "In fact for 15 years, it's hardly moved at all. Meanwhile premiums have gone up three times faster than wages, health insurance profits have soared and 14,000 Americans lose their health insurance everyday. "Now the Republicans say Congress should slow down? That's because when something goes slow enough it's easy to kill it dead in its tracks.'' (Visuall: A well-dressed foot squashes the snail when it reaches 2009] "Tell Congress you want health insurance reform now.'' http://blogs.abcnews.com/thenote/2009/07/divided-and-conquered-dems-set- diminished-goals-in-health-care-push-.html The Note: Divided and Conquered: Dems Set Diminished Goals in Health Care Push July 27, 2009 8:11 AM http://blogs.abcnews.com/thenote/2009/07/divided-and-conquered-dems-set- diminished-goals-in-health-care-push-.html Americans United for Change crushes a snail (but not really) in its latest ad <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7684tTVUeI> , a DC cable, five-figure buy. From the script: "The Republicans claim the health insurance reform debate has been moving at lightning speed. In fact for 15 years, it's hardly moved at all. Meanwhile premiums have gone up 3 times faster than wages, health insurance profits have soared and 14,000 Americans lose their health insurance every day. Now the Republicans say Congress should slow down? That's because when something goes slow enough it's easy to kill it dead in its tracks." http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2009/07/27/2010368.aspx First thoughts: Back to health care Posted: Monday, July 27, 2009 9:14 AM by Mark Murray Filed Under: First Thoughts <http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/category/1015.aspx> From Chuck Todd, Mark Murray, Domenico Montanaro, and Ali Weinberg *** Back to health care: *** The Great American Health Care Fight: Here are today's other developments in health care: Paul Krugman says the Blue Dogs' opposition confuses him... Liberal MoveOn is running a new TV ad <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=koJHanHSW9g> (on DC and national cable) calling out Republicans for playing political football with health care... And liberal Americans United for Change has its own new TV ad <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7684tTVUeI> (airing on DC cable) criticizing Republicans for advocating a take-it-slow approach on health care. http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0709/Americans_United_Snail.html? showall July 27, 2009 Categories: Healthcare <http://dyn.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/index.cfm/category/Healthcare> Americans United: 'Snail' <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7684tTVUeI> A rather gruesome new spot from Americans United for Change, running on D.C. cable, ridicules Republican calls for slowing down the debate on health care, noting that it's been going on since 1993. "When something goes slow enough, it's easy to kill it dead in its tracks," says the narrator, as a foot crunches the snail. By Ben Smith 08:21 AM http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/07/palin-to-media-honor-our-troo ps-stop-making-things-up-about-me.php TPMDC Morning Roundup By Eric Kleefeld <http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/talk/blogs/kleefeld> - July 27, 2009, 9:00AM Americans United Ad: Health Care Reform Going At Snail's Pace -- And Republicans Want To Kill It Americans United For Change has this new ad on D.C. cable -- essentially a test audience that puts an ad before the Washington media, before launching it nationwide -- saying that the health care debate is not going too fast. Indeed, they say it's gone at a snail's pace since 1993: "Now the Republicans say Congress should slow down?" the announcer said. "That's because when something goes slow enough it's easy to kill it dead in its tracks." "Americans United For Change" Release Ad Pushing Health Care Reform (VIDEO) <http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/07/27/americans-united-for-chan_n_24 5301.html> First Posted: 07-27-09 09:18 AM | Updated: 07-27-09 09:27 AM With the battle over health care reform heating up, one pro-reform group has released a new ad calling for action sooner rather than later, and chiding critics who want to slow the process down by saying we've been in this process for the last 15 years. The group is "Americans United for Change" and their ad is titled "Snail." WATCH: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7684tTVUeI http://www.boston.com/news/politics/politicalintelligence/2009/07/labor_ ad_says_h.html Labor ad says healthcare moving at snail's pace <http://www.boston.com/news/politics/politicalintelligence/2009/07/labor _ad_says_h.html> Email <javascript:openWindow('http://tools.boston.com/pass-it-on?story_url=htt p://www.boston.com/news/politics/politicalintelligence/2009/07/labor_ad_ says_h.html','mailit','scrollbars,resizable,width=770,height=450');> | Link <http://www.boston.com/news/politics/politicalintelligence/2009/07/labor _ad_says_h.html> |Comments (43) <http://www.boston.com/news/politics/politicalintelligence/2009/07/labor _ad_says_h.html#comments> Posted by Foon Rhee, deputy national political editor July 27, 2009 02:08 PM A pro-Democratic labor coalition has a reply to Republicans who say the healthcare overhaul push in too much, too fast. The new cable TV spot released this morning by Americans United for Change says that by calling for delay, Republicans are really trying to kill reform, again. "The Republicans claim the health insurance reform debate has been moving at lightning speed," the announcer says over an animated snail inching past sign posts starting with the year 1993. "In fact for 15 years, it's hardly moved at all. Meanwhile premiums have gone up 3 times faster than wages, health insurance profits have soared and 14,000 Americans lose their health insurance everyday." "Now the Republicans say Congress should slow down? That's because when something goes slow enough it's easy to kill it dead in its tracks," the announcer says as a dress shoe squashes the snail. "Tell Congress you want health insurance reform now," the announcer concludes. Another liberal group, MoveOn.org, also has a new healthcare ad up. This one goes after Republicans, quoting them as saying they want to defeat President Obama on the issue, including Senator Jim DeMint's much-cited remark that healthcare could be Obama's "Waterloo." While Obama is pushing reform, Republicans are "doing nothing -- actually worse than nothing" by turning the issue into a political football, the announcer says as a football is shown spiraling through the air -- then shattering a window. "Tell Congress this isn't a game," the narrator concludes. The Democratic National Committee piled on this afternoon with a web video of its own, hammering Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell for claiming that every GOP senators favors a healthcare bill. Titled "Are you serious?" the ad argues that Republicans have showed they don't want change. "The Republican playbook on health insurance reform is now plainly clear and it's well past time for Mitch McConnell to acknowledge that his Party's strategy is to try and use the health insurance reform debate to score a political win on the backs of struggling American families and small businesses. Now that members of his own caucus are stating publicly their desire to see the President 'fail', McConnell's attempts to profess bipartisanship are falling more than a little flat," DNC spokesman Brad Woodhouse said in a statement. "The status quo that the Republican Party is championing is breaking American families, small businesses and state budgets across the nation and only stands to get far worse in the years ahead if nothing is done - as they propose. By standing in the way of health insurance reform, Republicans are protecting their special interest friends and ignoring their duty to serve the interests of their constituents." Americans United for Change also launched a radio spot on nine Maine stations today aiming at persuading Senator Olympia Snowe, a key moderate Republican, to support the healthcare bill. "Americans have been waiting for meaningful health care reform since Truman was president and. Sen. Snowe is a critical voice on the Senate Finance Committee," Frank Gallagher, the Maine state director of Americans United for Change, said in a statement. "Health care is not going to reform itself. The insurance industry will not suddenly stop lobbying to kill reform or quit raising our premiums, and the Republican leadership has stated repeatedly that they are actively trying to kill it. Sen. Snowe has a long record of going against her party's leadership to do what's right for Maine. It's time for her to do that again." http://www.nationaljournal.com/hotline/wakeupcall.php Monday ... 7/27/2009 ... 9 am WHAT'S NEWS *MoveOn.org is up with a new TV ad <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=koJHanHSW9g> in DC and on nat'l cable, accusing GOPers of playing politics with health care. Americans United for Change is also launching a TV ad <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7684tTVUeI> in DC, "exposing the GOP 'slow it down' talking point" (Wake-Up Call! sources). *Americans United for Change is up with a new radio ad <http://aufc.3cdn.net/5d99d3829c48c4d7c2_zlm6b6uoe.mp3> , urging ME residents to call Sen. Olympia Snowe (R) and tell her "to act on health care" (release). http://hotlineoncall.nationaljournal.com/archives/2009/07/aucs_snail.php July 27, 2009 10:25 AM AUC's 'Snail' <http://hotlineoncall.nationaljournal.com/archives/2009/07/aucs_snail.ph p> Americans United for Change is airing a new TV ad in the DC market slamming the GOP for trying to stall health care reform in order to kill it. Narrator: "In fact for 15 years, it's hardly moved at all. Meanwhile premiums have gone up 3 times faster than wages, health insurance profits have soared and 14,000 Americans lose their health insurance everyday. Now the Republicans say Congress should slow down? That's because when something goes slow enough it's easy to kill it dead in its tracks." Full script of "Snail" is available after the jump. SCRIPT : 'Snail' (:30) The Republicans claim the health insurance reform debate has been moving at lightning speed. [CG -- animation of a snail inching past dated sign posts, starting at the year '1992' and gradually progressing to '2009' throughout the spot] In fact for 15 years, it's hardly moved at all. Meanwhile premiums have gone up 3 times faster than wages, health insurance profits have soared and 14,000 Americans lose their health insurance everyday. Now the Republicans say Congress should slow down? That's because when something goes slow enough it's easy to kill it dead in its tracks. [CG: a well-dressed foot squashes the snail when it reaches 2009] Tell Congress you want health insurance reform NOW. Paid For by Americans United for Change http://politicalwire.com/archives/2009/07/27/ad_blasts_republicans_for_b locking_reform.html Ad Blasts Republicans for Blocking Reform <http://politicalwire.com/archives/2009/07/27/ad_blasts_republicans_for_ blocking_reform.html> An effective new advertisement <http://politicalwire.com/archives/2009/07/27/ad_blasts_republicans_for_ blocking_reform.html#030692a> running on Washington, D.C. cable television makes the case that Republicans have blocked health care reform for a decade and a half. Key message: "The Republicans claim the health insurance reform debate has been moving at lightning speed. In fact for 15 years, it's hardly moved at all. Now the Republicans say Congress should slow down? That's because when something goes slow enough it's easy to kill it dead in its tracks." Here's the ad: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7684tTVUeI http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/eyeon2010/2009/07/health-care-ad-campaigns-t arge.html By Emily Cadei | July 27, 2009 1:33 PM | Permalink <http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/eyeon2010/2009/07/health-care-ad-campaigns- targe.html> | Comments (0) <http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/eyeon2010/2009/07/health-care-ad-campaigns- targe.html#comments> The progressive labor-backed coalition Americans United for change is also airing an ad <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7684tTVUeI> in D.C. criticizing what it characterizes as Republican stalling tactics. CNN July 27, 2009 Monday SHOW: THE SITUATION ROOM 4:00 PM EST WOLF BLITZER: It involves your health, but who should you believe? In new ad running on television, Democrats and their supporters are hoping to convince you about their ideas for health care reform. Take a look. (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP, MOVEON.ORG AD) NARRATOR: While the president is trying to make health care affordable, the Republicans are doing nothing -- actually, worse than nothing. They're turning it into a political football. Health care costs are spiraling. Tell Congress, this isn't a game. (END VIDEO CLIP) (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP, AMERICANS UNITED FOR CHANGE AD) NARRATOR: Now the Republicans say Congress should slow down? That's because, when something goes slow enough, it's easy to kill it dead in its tracks. (END VIDEO CLIP) BLITZER: All right, let's bring in our senior political analyst, Gloria Borger. The White House Bulletin July 27, 2009 Monday Both Sides Plan To Use Recess To Lobby Public On Health Care Reform SECTION: IN THE WHITE HOUSE AND AROUND TOWN LENGTH: 252 words The expected sidelining of the health care debate until after Labor Day means that the congressional recess slated to begin next Monday is likely to occur, according to House and Senate aides. They had previously suggested that Democratic leaders would keep lawmakers in next week to vote on health care reform. But aides on both sides say that doesn't mean the debate will go dormant for a month. "The race will now be on to see who can get home and shape the debate at town halls and other public events," said a key GOP leadership aide. Both the Republicans and Democrats are fast cobbling together plans to press their case for and against reforms. The Republicans plan to step up their warnings that the plan will cost too much, result in higher taxes and lessen health care quality. The Democrats are planning to push their claims that the time is ripe for reform and that costs will rise without a massive reform. Outside groups are also planning to get involved, as do the Republican and Democratic parties. The Obama support group Americans United for Change, for example, has just cut a TV ad that accuses the Republicans for slowing the health care debate in order to kill reform. The ad is titled "Snail," and a spokesman said the ad will is meant to expose "the GOP's 'slow it down' talking point on health care reform for what it really is: a concerted strategy for killing reform altogether and perpetuating the status quo for another 15 years." -- Bulletin exclusive from U.S. News http://mms.tveyes.com/MediaDownload.asp?MDID=345325&MDS=5709 07/27/2009: WMAQ-CHI (NBC) WMAQ NBC 5 Chicago News at 5:00 News ... hill with the latest. hey, steve. >> reporter: anna, thanks, good evening to you. up here on capitol hill the co-opz, insurance poolts and insurance exchanges, all those things, might appeal to conservative lawmakers so concerned now about the cost of insuring the uninsured that they are holding up the legislative process. president obama focused today on china, health care reform off the fast track the president had demanded. no votes till september. liberal groups are alarmed. this new ad out today. >> now the republicans say congress should slow down. that's because when something goes slow enough it's easy to kill it. >> republicans say they are holding out for a plan that cuts deeper into health care costs before anyone's taxes go up or way up. >> but what really concerns me about this plan is washington's history of underestimating costs of expensive plans like this. >> democratic leaders don't have the votes to roll over the republicans because conservative blue dog democrats still agree with the gop. >> the american people expect us to squeeze every dime of savings that we can out of current system. >> the obama so-called public option, government insurance, is in trouble. some senate democrats are talking about co-ops, insurance exchanges, the uninsured would get a policy offered by private companies in a pool. some conservatives oppose co-ops and the public option. >> either way the government is going to give its program special advantages that are not available to private insurance. the government is going to increase the cost of private insurance. >> reporter: the white house is non-committal. >> i don't believe that the president has come down one versus the other in terms of denoting co-ops equal to or above public option. >> but insurance pools now look like plan ""a"" as the obama health care reform plan moves more slowly now through congress. president obama still clear and still steering clear of specifics, anna, says it's the outcome that matters. lower costs, better care and the hard part, getting everybody covered. >> let's talk about timing for a second here. obviously this is not going to get done in august. will this be done by the end of the year? will there be a vote by the end of the year? >> well, everybody says there will be a vote by the end of the year. i think everybody agrees, even the republicans who read the polls, and they know that some kind of health care reform is pretty much what the majority of americans, even majority of americans in every can congressional district in american tell pollters they want, but the timing is still important because the democrats are convinced that the slower it goes, you saw that ad, the squashed snail, that if you go like a snail,some somebody is going to step on health care reform and kill it like they did in the clinton administration in 5093 and nancy pelosi just a little while ago here on capitol hill finally admitted today, what her deputies admitted to on friday, that the first house vote on this won't take place until september. pelosi the speaker is saying we're on track because the committees will finish their work, but if this train is on the track, it is throttling back. back to you. >> thank you, steve. steve handelsman live in d.c. for us. >> ________________________________________ Jeremy J. 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