Some of the nation’s most prominent civil rights groups are uniting for a common cause. The NAACP’s National Voter Fund, The Leadership Conference On Civil Rights, The Campaign For Community Change and PowerPac.Org are coming together to push health care reform on their devotees. The groups will run television and print ads in states with high minority populations, in particular Florida, North Carolina, Louisiana and Arkansas. The ads will run in English and Spanish.
The organizations released a statement saying the ads,
“Are part of a grassroots effort to ensure that members of Congress appreciate the importance of reform to the people of color they represent.”
One of the ads features a Black narrator speaking on the millions of people without health insurance saying:
“‘I’m not going to let special-interest politicians throw 46 million of us under the bus….”
The coalition is pushing for a public option policy in the healthcare reform bill. The ads are expected to cost between $250,000 to $500,000.
