Friday The Thirteenth For Congressional Dirtbags Who Voted To Kick 18-26 Year Olds Off Their Parents' Insurance Plan

Blue America took off after 8 GOP dirtbags right after Boehner's 31st pointless House vote to repeal health care reform. We launched a Facebook campaign targeting 18-26 year olds who live in districts represented by Paul Ryan (WI-1), Tom Reed (NY-23), Frank Guinta (NH-1) Charlie Bass (NH-2), Sandy Adams and John Mica (both in FL-7), Buck McKeon (CA-25) and nasty little Patrick McHenry (NC-10).

All 8 of them voted (again) to repeal-- with no plans whatsoever to replace-- the Affordable Care Act. That would immediately throw every 18-26 year old off their parents' health insurance plan, something that the vast majority of Democrats, independents and even Republicans think is a grave mistake. But all 8 of these congressmembers are blind ideologues who walk in lockstep with the GOP's obstructionist and ruthlessly partisan leadership, Boehner and Cantor.

All 8 also have progressive opponents who want to help fix what's wrong with the ACA-- while keeping all the good stuff (like students getting to stay on their parents' plans and like Big Insurance not being allowed to deny coverage to people with preexisting conditions. Wednesday we talk about a plan by McKeon's opponent, Dr. Lee Rogers, who has come up with some simple, straightforward fixes to the ACA that should be able to get support from both parties.

The ad campaign is simple too. All Facebook users in the offending Republicans' districts will have an opportunity to click on a button that takes them to a Facebook page that urges them to register o vote (and makes it easy to do) and to flunk out their congressman on November 6th. Take a look at the Facebook pages:

Sandy Adams (R-FL)
Charlie Bass (R-NH)
Frank Guinta (R-NH)
Patrick McHenry (R-NC)
Buck McKeon (R-CA)
John Mica (R-FL)
Tom Reed (R-NY)
Paul Ryan (R-WI)

And one last step: think about contributing to the effort $5 or $10 goes a surprisingly long way on Facebook. Help Blue America flunk out these reactionary jerks here on a special ActBlue page for dirtbags.

Here's the note Lee Rogers sent voters in Santa Clarita, Simi Valley, Porter Ranch and the Antelope Valley right after McKeon's vote:

Today my opponent, Congressman Howard “Buck” McKeon, voted to repeal the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA).

This was the 31st time he has voted to repeal, disrupt, dismantle, or defund the ACA despite the fact that the Senate will not take up these bills and the President won’t sign them. This repeal is nothing but political grandstanding and a waste of valuable time that could be spent solving needed problems like fixing our economy and creating jobs.

Make no mistake, it’s not a perfect law. I have said from the beginning that I was not satisfied with the ACA. As a doctor, I wanted something better.

But there are ways to improve it. Repealing the ACA will not solve our health care crisis and it would leave millions of Americans without coverage.

That’s why today I announced six initial steps to improve the ACA that I plan to sponsor when elected.

And here's another perspective from Nate Shinagawa, the progressive Democrat running against Tom Reed.

Moments ago, Republicans in Congress voted to repeal the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, a move that would take away affordable healthcare for millions of Americans. Yet right before they voted to repeal the act, Republicans including Congressman Reed voted to preserve their own taxpayer-funded healthcare for life.

Sign our petition and tell Congressman Tom Reed how you feel about his hypocritical healthcare votes.

Since the reforms were first debated in Congress, Republicans exhibited little interest in actually improving our healthcare system for patients and families. Instead of bringing new ideas to the table, they chose to play politics and mislead the public about the legislation.

Congressman Reed’s votes demonstrate his failure to lead. Republicans know full well that President Obama will veto any attempt to repeal the Affordable Care Act, yet they continue to waste time and threaten millions of Americans’ access to vital healthcare.

Let Congressman Reed know that his self-serving political games are unacceptable. Sign our petition today.

Our district and our nation deserve better, and I vow to do better. It’s time to stop playing political games with people’s lives and to focus on creating jobs and moving this country forward.

UPDATE: Stats Are In

The ads were seen by 3,609,893 Facebook users between 18 and 26 in 7 congressional districts. The largest number were seen in WI-1, hope of Paul Ryan, where 955,784 people saw the ads. (Note: that doesn't count the people who are still seeing it, since Ryan "won" our contest and that means another month of ads which are being seen every single day.) A close second were young people n CA-25, where Buck McKeon is on his last legs-- 952,425. Then came the 18-26 year olds in NC-10, where Patrick McHenry voted to screw them over and 609,570 of them saw the ad reminding them to flunk him out in November and replace him with Rep. Patsy Keever. There are two congressional districts that make up the whole state of New Hampshire so we ran the same ad for Tweedledee and Tweedledum, Frank Guinta and Charlie Bass, who voted the same way (as usual)-- ads that were seen by 829,884 people. In Central Florida around Orlando another set of Bobsey Twins, Sandy Adams and John Mica, had 249,884 people looking at the ad aimed at them and, finally 12,764 people saw the one in upstate NY targeting anti-healthcare and anti-education fanatic Tom Reed.