Posted on 07/25/2009 3:00:18 PM PDT by kcvl
Blum is currently a founder and co-chair of Health Care for America Now, which is leading the fight for quality, affordable health care for all. He served on the steering committee of Americans United to Protect Social Security, which led the successful campaign to stop Social Security privatization, and co-founded two coalitions to safely and responsibly end the war in Iraq. In 2006, USAction helped elect seven new Members of Congress who are members of USAction’s state affilates. In 2004, USAction Education Fund registered 570,000 new voters and conducted GOTV among 1.3 million voters in 2316 precincts.
Blum’s experience in grassroots organizing is extensive. He founded and directed Pennsylvania Citizen Action, where he helped lead successful campaigns to reform the state’s public utility law, create a toxics right to know law and expand access to generic drugs for senior citizens. He has also worked for the Peoples’ Coalition for Peace and Justice, Massachusetts Fair Share, People for the American Way (where he co-coordinated the campaign to establish AmeriCorps), Surface Transportation Policy Project, Chesapeake Bay Foundation and Citizens Fund; and was Transportation Policy Director for Citizen Action, where he led the first-ever national campaign to promote public transit and Amtrak in the 1997 highway law reauthorization. Blum has also served as President of Maryland Citizen Action, founder and member of the Advisory Board of the Jewish Fund for Justice and as a member of the board of Citizens for Tax Justice. He is on the executive committee of America Votes and is an advisor to Progress Now.
His life-long interest in public transportation issues has included organizing for better public transit in MA, MD and PA. In Pennsylvania, he ran for state Senate in 1990 and was the Northeast Pennsylvania Regional Director of the Clinton/Gore Campaign in 1992. He has a BSN from Boston University and has attended the University of Chicago and the University of Warwick, England. He and his wife, the writer Ellen Cassedy, reside in Takoma Park, MD, and have two children.
a progressive grassroots advocacy organization with affiliates in twenty-four states
Executive Director of USAction & USAction Education Fund
founder and director of Pennsylvania Citizen Action; consultant to People for the American Way, Surface Transportation Policy Project, Chesapeake Bay Foundation and Citizens Fund; and Transportation Policy Director for Citizen Action. Mr. Blum has also served as President of Maryland Citizen Action, founder and member of the Advisory Board of the Jewish Fund for Justice, and as a member of the board of Citizens for Tax Justice. He has a BSN from Boston University."
This arrogant jerk was just on Fox News.
Was he the one who stared at his feet while talking?
Probably couldn't even face the camera with his BS.
I was walking though town today and passed some signs saying “Reduce Medical Costs—Health Care Reform Now!”. Some (funny looking) woman cam up to me with a clipboard and launched into a tirade—apparently she wanted me to sign a petition. I then asked her if Health Care “Reform” included tort reform to reduce lawsuits and defensive medicine. She stopped talking, stared at me for 5 sec, then moved on to somone else. What a stoodge!
Was she with ACORN (red cap will give them away)?
She didn’t overtly appear to be ACORN, but she was strange looking. It wasn’t clear what ORG she was with.
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