Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) is taping robocalls urging independent voters to support his amendment to send the health care reform bill back to committee.
Hotline on Call (sub. req.) reports that the robocall, paid for by the National Republican Senatorial Committee, will target independents in Colorado, Arkansas and Nebraska — constituents of moderate Democratic senators Michael Bennet (CO), Blanche Lincoln (AR) and Ben Nelson (NE).
In the call, McCain urges voters to go to a web site called healthcaretaskforce.org (which redirects to healthcare.nrsc.org), where they can sign a petition encouraging their senators to vote for McCain’s amendment.
The amendment would send the bill back to the Senate Finance Committee to be stripped of all its Medicare fixes.
On the call, McCain asks the listener to help him “stop the Democrats from cutting vital Medicare coverage for our seniors.”
The NRSC is also paying for live calls to voters in North Dakota, targeting the constituents of Democrats Byron Dorgan and Kent Conrad. (North Dakota law prohibits pre-recorded calls.)
