February 16, 2010 10:38 PM UTC

Sen. Bennet named a Healthcare Hero by PCCC

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• by: TheDeminator

(Some “netroots” love that Bennet can surely use – promoted by Colorado Pols)

I just got this email from www.boldprogressives.org

Sen. Mike Bennet did Colorado proud today.

He defied the stale DC conventional wisdom that tells Democrats to be weak — and instead called on Majority Leader Harry Reid to pass the public health insurance option through “reconciliation,” which only needs a simple majority in the Senate.

When elected representatives take bold action, they deserve our praise. Can you write Mike Bennet a short thank-you note for his bold leadership? We’ll personally deliver it to him.

Click here to write a thank-you note.

Bennet’s courage on this issue cannot be over-emphasized.

Despite polls showing huge majorities of Americans and Coloradans wanting a public option, the DC pundits are telling Democrats in Congress to cave to the corporate interests.

Mike Bennet was truly a leader. Several other senators have already co-signed Bennet’s letter to Reid — and PCCC members across the country will now be calling their senators, asking them to follow Bennet’s lead and sign as well.

Can you write Bennet a short thank-you note for his leadership? Click here.

Thanks for being a bold progressive.

— Adam Green, Aaron Swartz, Michael Snook, Natasha Patel, Andrew Perez, and the PCCC team

POLS UPDATE: After all the criticism we’ve had for Rep. Jared Polis, we would be remiss if we didn’t point out that this letter from Bennet prescribes close to what Polis called for in his own letter a couple of weeks ago. While the record on health care reform differs pretty markedly between Bennet (helpful to passage at every step) and Polis (several key moments of obstruction and messaging disaster), and the success of their suggested approach is still very much in question, you can’t praise one without acknowledging the other. That said, Bennet needs this to shore up progressive credentials much more with the Democratic base than Polis, perception trumping reality as it so often does.