Tonight I had the extreme pleasure of seeing Senator Sherrod Brown, Congresswoman Mary Jo Kilroy, Secretary of State, Jennifer Brunner, Lt Governor Lee Fisher, Columbus Mayor Michael Coleman, and many others at the Let's Get It Done: Health Insurance Reform Now Event. It was a tremendously exciting and energizing event. The speakers were all excellent, there were hundreds of pro-reformers there, and me and Link were able to hand out 200 Facts not Fear Rally fliers.

This fight is going to be won this September, irrational anger and fear tactics are getting old and starting to fall on deaf ears. Tonight there were hundreds of Central Ohio citizens cheering for healthcare reform, there was a handful of deathers announcing their Tea Parties and peddling their misinformation. Sherrod Brown artfully pointed out that there were only 14 or 15 people trying to disrupt the meeting, after the first 20 minutes, there few and far between cries of "higher taxes", "death panels", and "where's the beef?" were put down completely as they knew that they had come up against their most feared enemy, energized, well informed, organized liberals.

After that the only cheers that interrupted our leaders were "Healthcare NOW!" and "Everybody IN, Nobody OUT"

It was an amazing event, I scored a sweet sign, we informed 190 liberals, and I think about 10 deathers about the Facts not Fear rally, and we had our voices heard.

We are now fired up and ready to go for this Labor Day, the Facts not Fear Rally for Reform is primed and ready to go, we have the POWERHORN (our amazing new bullhorn), and we are now in talks with Organizing for America, Workers United, and the Columbus College Democrats.

Want to join in the fun, send an email to factsnotfear[at]gmail[dot]com or leave a comment.

Crossposted at Facts not Fear

Update: Went to bed last night tired but extremely energized by this rally, woke up on the rec list, thank you all so much for bringing attention to this, the MSM never will.

Update 2: Wanted to shine some light on this comment

...we have our rally here in Boston coming up on Labor Day. I so hope we get a great turn out. LABOR DAY HEALTH REFORM RALLY

Location: Park Square, at the intersection of Arlington St., Columbus Ave. and Stuart St., near the Arlington T stop.

Time: 11am-1pm

Agenda will include: a tribute to Senator Kennedy; 4 or 5 speakers, including Congressman Mike Capuano and Boston Mayor Tom Menino; musical entertainment; a send-off delivery of thousands of support declarations for health care reform to the Massachusetts Congressional delegation in attendance. You can sign one there.

The rally will end with a march from Park Square to Copley Square.

Update 3: Thanks for putting this on the rec list, I am honored, while I have some attention I want to promote the upcoming Facts not Fear Rally for Reform. If you are in Central Ohio please attend, if you are not please find a local event around you. We need to pass healthcare reform with a public option, and we can't do it sitting on the sidelines. Thanks again, I love this community, together we can do anything.