Yesterday the progressives and moderates of our fine county suddenly panicked, hearing that our only OC Congressperson was flipping from a yes to a no on the historic Health Care Reform Bill. Over a hundred concerned citizens quickly rallied outside her Garden Grove office to remonstrate (including OJ commenters anonster and gericault) – they reported hundreds more honks and thumbs up from passing motorists.
Rumors swirled that she was ducking the vote at a Florida fundraiser (it turns out she was in Florida but only on Saturday, and on personal business.) Garden Grove staff assured the demonstrators that Loretta would be voting yes again, but at the same time her DC operator was telling me that she was still undecided and studying the bill hard.
Back in October, she and fellow “Blue Dog” Jane Harman had penned a fine column entitled “Why We’re Breaking With the Blue Dogs on the Public Option,” which made the sensible point that the public option would bring down costs for Americans and their government – something real Blue Dogs are allegedly all about rather than just protecting corporate interests. Could the lack of a public option in the Senate bill be a reason for her to become the defeating vote, when every other public option supporter in Congress seemed to be backing the bill anyway?
Well, Loretta studied the bill, she listened to you, and she voted AYE. Here’s more of the inside scoop from the Register’s Dena Burris:
…Sanchez let it be known that her vote wasn’t a gimme, that she had questions, issues with the bill and that she needed to be convinced. So the convincing started. And it was from inside and outside of Washington.
“Out of every other piece of legislation that I have voted on for the last 14 years in this Congress this is the only time my phones have been ringing like this with people from my district who have been asking me for this,” Sanchez said.
Lawmakers are used to getting calls and faxes and e-mails. Often they are orchestrated campaigns and usually the calls come from activists interested in an issue. But this time, Sanchez said, she knew the calls were from everyday constituents. “We could hear the kids screaming in the background, the dishes clanging. ‘Tell her my children are uninsured. Tell her we want the bill,’ ” Sanchez said her staff told her.
“That has never happened for any other vote, not even the Iraq war,” she said.
Sanchez also heard from health experts back home. Some of them said vote yes, even if the bill was not perfect; something has to pass. Others recommended a no vote; said the bill was too flawed…
By late Friday Sanchez knew how she was going to vote.
On the one hand, she said, she worried about the moral imperative of her Catholic belief about serving others and so it mattered to her that more people get covered.
Then the MBA banker in her kicked in and she worried about whether the country could afford the tab and if insurance companies weren’t getting a windfall.
Sanchez insists the politics of the issue didn’t factor in.
I agree with Gustavo that this will clinch the election for her. (Naturally the inbred troglodytes at Red-Faced County predict it’ll throw the election to Boss Van Tran or racist Tan Nguyen.) In any case the fight for a public option or Medicare Buy-in continues after the historic bill is signed, as we push for Alan Grayson’s Medicare-You-Can-Buy-Into Act.
Sorry Loretta: YOU WILL NOT GET MY VOTE, AND PROBABLY MANY OTHERS………. we need someone that really take time to look into this matters.
You know, you’re right, Lizette – there are probably many votes she won’t get, possibly THOUSANDS! (And half of them write on this blog.)
YOU WILL NOT GET MY VOTE, I BET YOU DON’T EVEN KNOW WHAT IS IN THE BILL!
BYE BYE LORETTA, WE WILL NOT BE SHEDDING ANY TEARS!
Gracias for the link, Vern. Now: start working on her about sponsoring the DREAM Act…
“YOU WILL NOT GET MY VOTE”
You were never going to vote for her in the first place so her vote yesterday did not change a thing.
Your right, she sucks, very very much!
Gustravo, the only dream act she will be working on is getting tuition down for American kids..
You hispanic activists have a real cheek!
Go down to Mexico and sponsor a dream act of having a country that actually has schools!
wise up and stay off the corona – yuck!
Loretta is done. Van Tran will win this seat? Why? Most of her calls were from illegals who can’t vote. The legals in her District are opposed to this. Also, folks in the 46th, the 48th, etc. are going to line-up to write checks and walk for Tran. The anger in OC over this vote will get turned on her. RIP Sanchez, 11/10.
Just like professional petition signature gatherers find, the public can be duped into supporting or opposing a concept by shallow, even misleading, communication. Many who called D.C. on this issue were not at all familiar with all the aspects of this legislation, but call they did as implored by whatever group/church/party/talk show host etc. urged them to do so. To those who jumped on either pro or anti-bandwagon, be careful what you asked for !!
“Most of her calls were from illegals who can’t vote.”
Pete,
Can you please tell me how you were able to get the immigration status of those calling?
Sean, Pete knows everything. I checked his previous comments (thinking he might be Golightly.) He’s sure that “Like him or not, Mansoor is going to Sacramento.” and “This race is over. No one can beat Mansoor.” and “This seat won’t turn. It’s a matter of numbers.”
The two basic traits of his comments is his complete and utter certainty that nothing ever changes except toward the right; and his hatred of illegals. The comment above shows his astonishing capacity to tap into Loretta’s lines, cross-check with the INS, and be back here to comment before dinner time!
He is the very SAGE of immigrant bashers. Que viva Pete!
He has not bashed me?? I am an immigrant am i not??
“Can you please tell me how you were able to get the immigration status of those calling?”
MQ says:
wise up sean, more than 1/2 of the residents in Santa Ana are illegal immigrants, there has been NO visa, lottery draw for low wage uneducated immigrants from south of the border. If you know something the rest of us does not know – prey do tell!
Ms. Quinn,
Your ramblings here do nothing to prove Pete’s point that “most of her calls were from illegals”. How are you and he able to ascertain the immigration status of those calling her office? What database are you using?
Do you and Pete have the, as Vern said, “astonishing capacity to tap into Loretta’s lines, cross-check with the INS, and be back here to comment before dinner time”?
Please do tell.
Does anyone know why Long Beach Resdident Gerrie Schipske told the Long Beach Press Telegram that she hasn’t taken the OC Democratic Party Exec. Director job yet? She says it’s because they are hung up on a salary. This isn’t true, is it? Weren’t a lot of Dems pissed about the hire in the first place?
Thank you Loretta for listening to your constituents. The changes will improve the health care for all citizens. I look forward to supporting you once again in November.
“What database are you using?”
MQ says:
the common sense database- most people have the database in their brain!
Again, if you know of some way you can come legally to this country with no education, money or a job sponsor – be sure to let me know – there are thousands of people with college degrees that are having a hard time immigrating to this country, i am sure they would love to know the loop hole.
Pete you are completely right, Sean is just dishonest about the facts!
“most people have the database in their brain!”
In MQ’s case that would be on a micro-potato chip.
This is a good time to buy health insurance companies stock. As with any forced cash contribution plan, the providers will have to raise their profits and bonuses to soak up the excess cash received.
In MQ’s case that would be on a micro-potato chip.
MQ says:
Ah ah your hilarious.. i know everything in your world might be micro – but their is nothing small about my patato chip!
Layers and layers to peel!
This will be a great race, on one side “Blue Dog, that voted for the health care bill, and on the other side “Conservative” Van Tran who will run against it…..Very, Very, interesting. From purely a political perspective, this may be the race to watch.
“The changes will improve the health care for all citizens.”
Well thats dandy, i was thinking that i and millions of middle class Americans would be made to pay for health insurance (up the ying yang) to allow the millions of underserved and vulnerable to get free health care… O thats right we will!
sounds wonderful!
Please, you are so a public worker!
Yea I’m sure Loretta heard the dishes clanging it the background, as well as the gentle hum of their PS3 playing newly released God of War 3 at 60 bucks a pop….
I’m all for people that legitimately can’t afford health insurance to have it, but SOOOOOOOOOOOO many people just don’t make it the priority that it should be. It should be housing, food, then insurance of all types, and then everything else.
talk of micro potato chips . the far left queen herself the anoster was out there wearing her red beret with a star on it .
Naturally “Conservative” Van Tran will make a strong case for keeping our kids off our health insurance plan by denying coverage to new borns with birth defects and making our college aged kids pay for health insurance – and he should sweep to victory.
“talk of micro potato chips . the far left queen herself the anoster was out there wearing her red beret with a star on it “.
MQ says:
Really it must be nice to feel so be-dazzaled by a serial killer, that you would want to look like him..
Don’t much care for little red berets, they give me the heebe jeebees!
But i suppose the liberals like to look their best for dictatorship!
Wow this is the first I hear she acctually did something… yet it is not for the community… it is for the counrty… when are the issues going to be focused directly on the community??? We need a real leader not someone’s puppet… sorry lady you have to go…
It is no secret that, although Ms. Sanchez claims to be a Blue Dog, she has never met a stimulus package she didn’t like. Her vote for Obamacare could very well lead to her demise.
Many of those with Hispanic origins(I think that’s how the census put it) are neither fooled nor entertained by her little dance. While the Federal Government seeks to squeeze more and more out of our pockets, she brags at how much of OUR money, she brings home to us!
no shame. GAME OVER.
I can tell you that I and scores of others will be working hard to defeat her in the upcoming race. She will not walk away with this one, I can promise you that.