The organizers who brought the Tax Day Tea Party to cities around the nation this spring encouraged thousands of protesters Saturday afternoon to anti-health care reform rallies staged in front of at least 100 Congressional district offices.
Attendance was spotty, but at some sites, hundreds of protesters marched for hours waving American flags, holding signs that said “Don’t Stick Me With Your Health Care” and sending live Twitter feeds from their locations.
The event, called the National Recess Rally, was meant to counter efforts at town hall meetings held by members of Congress and by President Obama where lawmakers have tried to generate support for the reform during the summer recess.
“People just want government to stay out of their health care,” said Eric Odom, executive director of American Liberty Alliance, one the groups that helped organize Saturday’s rallies. “It was very little about the cost and more about government intrusion.”
The largest crowds were in Obama’s home state of Illinois, where organizers reported more than 1,000 people collectively showed up at two protest sites.
The American Liberty Alliance is urging those opposed to health-care reform proposals — particularly ones that offer a public option — to send e-mail and letters to Republican senators over the next two weeks, asking them to vow to stop any government-lead efforts to change health care when they return from their summer break.
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