{"id":9941,"date":"2009-08-27T22:52:35","date_gmt":"2009-08-27T22:52:35","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-08-27T22:52:35","modified_gmt":"2009-08-27T22:52:35","slug":"feinstein-on-verge-of-supporting-the-public-option","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/2009\/08\/27\/feinstein-on-verge-of-supporting-the-public-option\/","title":{"rendered":"Feinstein on verge of supporting the Public Option?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So says diarist <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/story\/2009\/8\/27\/773285\/-US-Sen.-Dianne-Feinstein-to-issue-statement-re:-public-option\">Stephan Kuttner<\/a> on DailyKos:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Joe at Senator Feinstein&#8217;s local office answered my call this afternoon and let me know that he would pass along my conditional offer of continued support and activism on behalf of many Democratic Party candidates and issues here in San Francisco.<\/p>\n<p>That condition being the Senator&#8217;s support for a public option in the health insurance reform legislation, Joe then responded to my followup question &#8211; &#8220;what is the Senator&#8217;s position?&#8221; &#8211; with pleasant news.<\/p>\n<p>Feinstein it was said is supportive of the public option and has plans issue a statement to that effect tomorrow.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Looking forward to that&#8211;if this is true, at least we know that Senator Feinstein won&#8217;t object, even if we can&#8217;t get her to actually help push a public option through.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, if you want to keep up the pressure on DiFi, the Courage Campaign is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.couragecampaign.org\/page\/s\/GoPublic\">leading the way.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So says diarist <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/story\/2009\/8\/27\/773285\/-US-Sen.-Dianne-Feinstein-to-issue-statement-re:-public-option\">Stephan Kuttner<\/a> on DailyKos:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Joe at Senator Feinstein&#8217;s local office answered my call this afternoon and let me know that he would pass along my conditional offer of continued support and activism on behalf of many Democratic Party candidates and issues here in San Francisco.<\/p>\n<p>That condition being the Senator&#8217;s support for a public option in the health insurance reform legislation, Joe then responded to my followup question &#8211; &#8220;what is the Senator&#8217;s position?&#8221; &#8211; with pleasant news.<\/p>\n<p>Feinstein it was said is supportive of the public option and has plans issue a statement to that effect tomorrow.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Looking forward to that&#8211;if this is true, at least we know that Senator Feinstein won&#8217;t object, even if we can&#8217;t get her to actually help push a public option through.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, if you want to keep up the pressure on DiFi, the Courage Campaign is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.couragecampaign.org\/page\/s\/GoPublic\">leading the way.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":68,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[22],"tags":[312,7464],"class_list":["post-9941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-22","tag-312","tag-7464"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Pvhz-2Al","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9941","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/68"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9941\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}