Democracy for America and the Progressive Change Campaign Committee are turning their fire to Sen. Olympia Snowe (R-ME) with the below ad, slated to run for as long as they’re able to fund it in Maine and Washington, DC.
The groups highlight new polling data which shows that the choice of a public option has broad support in Maine, but particularly among Democrats and Independents.
But today, Snowe proposed an amendment to the Senate Finance Committee’s health care reform bill that would allow for a weak, state by state public option that would only be instituted if private insurers fail to bring down premiums and expand coverage on their own. In other words, there’s a lot of convincing to be done.
