New Ad Targets Baucus for Blocking Public Option

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The Progressive Change Campaign Committee, and Democracy for America have launched the below ad in Montana and Washington, D.C., hitting Senate Finance Committee chairman Max Baucus for blocking a public option from his health care reform bill.

The ad is the latest in a bid to personalize the politics of the public option. Last week, the two groups targeted Sen. Olympia Snowe (R-ME) for opposing a public option with a similar ad.

Tomorrow, the Finance Committee will resume consideration of reform legislation, and have a chance to vote on a number of public option amendments, including one, authored by Snowe, that would affix the public option to a “trigger mechanism”–a plan viewed with suspicion by most reformers.

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