Granite State Mothers to Deliver Mother’s Day Message to Congress: We Need Health Care for All

Media Advisory
May 8, 2009

Contact: Marie Choi (510) 207-4053

CONCORD, NH – On Friday, May 8, mothers from around the state will make special Mother’s Day deliveries to Senator Jeanne Shaheen, Representative Carol Shea-Porter, and Senator Gregg with a message: this mother’s day, we need quality, affordable health care for all.

Moms will deliver flowers and cards to Senator Shaheen and Representative Shea-Porter thanking them for their leadership this year in reauthorizing and expanding the State Children’s Health Insurance Program. New Hampshire mothers are counting on their continued leadership to make sure that all parents can stay healthy too.

Senator Gregg will get a different kind of mother’s day delivery – prescription pill bottles – to remind him that too many mothers across the state are struggling with the high costs of health care. Senator Gregg voted against the State Children’s Health Insurance Program and against the budget which included a down-payment on health care reform.

WHO: Granite State moms

WHAT: Delivery of Mothers Day cards and flowers to Senator Jeanne Shaheen and Representative Carol Shea-Porter; Delivery of prescription pill bottles to Senator Gregg

WHERE: Berlin – 12pm – Sen. Gregg’s Office, 60 Pleasant St. Concord – 11am – Sen. Gregg’s Office, 125 N. Main St. Dover – 10:30am – Rep. Shea-Porter’s Office, 104 Washington St. Dover – 11am – Sen. Shaheen’s Office, 340 Central Ave. Suite 205 Manchester – 10:30am – Sen. Shaheen’s Office, 1589 Elm St. Manchester – 11am – Sen. Gregg’s Office, 41 Hooksett Rd.

WHEN: Friday, May 8

New Hampshire for Health Care is a grassroots organization made up of 80,000 Health Care Voters across the state who are pushing to create a health care system that provides quality, affordable care for all Americans.

Change That Works is a new state-by-state effort by the two-million member Service Employees International Union to bring economic relief to millions across the country, help fix the nation’s broken health care system and guarantee workers can freely decide whether to join with their coworkers in a union. For more information, please visit http://www.seiu.org/changethatworks/.

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