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â–ź Recently a Fairfax reader’s friend’s minivan was rear-ended in Fairfax on Sir Francis Drake Boulevard. The damage was signiďŹ cant but, said our reader, the driver who hit her was “a nice average Marin mom with her three teenagers in the car,â€? who was “very nice and caringâ€? and wrote down all her information on a piece of paper for her. But when the friend took this info to the police department to ďŹ le a report for the insurance company, she was absolutely stunned to discover that the woman had completely lied and all the information was false— turning the matter into a criminal case of “hit and run.â€? Just as criminal, says our reader, is the example the woman set for her three kids.—Samantha Campos

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But Organizing for America, reecting the Obama administration, says incremental reform is better than no reform at all. “What we don’t want to happen,â€? says Stevenson, “is to throw out the good while trying to achieve perfection. That is not tenable right now. We have to have a comprehensive health insurance reform plan in place right away or the country’s economy is not going to be able to tolerate

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central to creating consensus among groups that might not agree on everything. Ravitz say the push to support the Obama vision of healthcare reform has attracted new members. And the issue of healthcare isn’t the end of the road. “We’re in this for the long haul,â€? says Stevenson. “Once healthcare reform passes, we will take on other issues.â€? Organizing for America plans to mobilize its forces to work on clean energy legislation, education, ďŹ nancial regulatory legislation “and possibly immigration.â€? Working on those issues also will keep a Democratic base invigorated for the election campaigns in 2010 and 2012, notes Ravitz. Keeping people invigorated during the healthcare debate isn’t the problem for the Democratic Party or for Organizing for America. Preventing a catastrophic split in the party might be, however. While the administration and Organizing for America have been seeking consensus, the more radical (progressive) elements of the Democratic Party have been calling for an all-or-nothing strategy. Some have suggested progressive Democrats should vote against legislation that fails to include what has been called a “robustâ€? public option. Anything less would be unacceptable capitulation to the insurance industry. Kill it now and revive the attempt later, they say. It’s that important for the country. That sentiment, they assert, should carry over into the next general elections. Democrats beware, they warn.

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stone. “The next day we heard that on the oor [of the House] everybody was buzzing about how many calls they got from constituents behind [healthcare legislation].â€? When the national organization sends out an alert, the statewide and local groups take action based on information coming from the national organization regarding where volunteers should make calls and what they should say. Calls go out to legislators; they also go out to Democratic constituents who in turn can call other Democrats in a phone-tree strategy. “We’ve been organizing neighborhood by neighborhood,â€? says Mary Jane Stevenson, the state director for Organizing for America. “We’re organizing them into teams to carry on the kind of campaign that we had in the presidential election. This is a little bit different in that we are doing issue-based campaigns where we are reaching out to members of Congress, other constituency groups and allies. We are training people how to organize.â€? In addition to the telephone campaigns, Organizing for America “can make available local volunteers to tell their own compelling stories about how this broken healthcare system is impacting their lives to explain why they are joining the ďŹ ght to bring about change.â€? That’s from a Marin chapter press release. The idea of ordinary people sharing their stories to illustrate social problems is a major tenet in the foundation of community organizing. It’s

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