Grayson Targets Snowe: She Wasn’t Elected President Last Year

Sen. Olympia Snow (R-ME) and Rep. Alan Grayson (D-FL)
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Rep. Alan Grayson, garnering national attention recently for blasting Republicans on health care, says he’s collected 90,000 signatures on a petition that criticizes Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and Sen. Olympia Snowe.

Grayson (D-FL) has teamed up with Progressive Change Campaign Committee and at 1:30 today will deliver the petitions to Capitol Hill that tell Reid:

“Any Democratic senators who support a Republican attempt to block a vote on health care reform should be stripped of their leadership titles … Americans deserve a clean up-or-down vote on health care,” and
“For the last six months, Democrats have been dwelling, debating, and hoping for Republican Olympia Snowe to vote for health care reform. Why? Olympia Snowe was not elected President last year.”

Grayson charges Reid (D-NV) should “lay down the law” with conservative Democrats on health care and called out Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-CT) for saying he wasn’t sure he’d support the bill.

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