WASHINGTON -- A coalition of progressive groups is warning swing state Democrats to think twice before embracing parts of the Republican budget plan that would privatize Medicare and cut Medicaid.
Armed with a stark set of polls they plan to release this week, the groups -- Progressive Change Campaign Committee, Democracy for America, MoveOn.org and Credo Action -- are telling Democratic Sens. Sherrod Brown (Ohio), Claire McCaskill (Mo.), Jon Tester (Mont.), and Amy Klobuchar (Minn.) to stand tall on the popular social safety net programs.
"Democrats need to say firmly that any tampering whatsoever with Medicare and Medicaid benefits is off the table," said Charles Chamberlain, Democracy for America's political director.
Senior citizens and other Congressional District 8 constituents donned zombie makeup on April 28th, 2011 to protest cuts to Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid outside of Rep. Dan Webster's office in Winter Garden, Florida.
Webster beat Alan Grayson in the last congressional election. Floridians are starting to have some buyer's remorse on that election.
See the video below on the senior citizen zombie demonstration.
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