LEAD Meeting

If you want to stay involved in liberal politics now that the presidential election is over you might want to consider attending the meeting of LEAD Thursday, December 18th, at 6:30 PM. The meetings are held in the meeting room across from at the Sinkhole Saloon at the Palmyra Bowling Ally on Route 422 at the east end of Palmyra. You can order food at the Sinkhole and bring it over to the meeting room.

LEAD (Lebanon Exchange for Accountability in Democracy) “… is committed to promoting a progressive political agenda to improve the lives of the people of Lebanon County, PA, and to fight selfishness, greed, lies, incompetence, arrogance, corruption, and lack of respect for our individual rights from our elected officials.”

LEAD grew out of the Kerry campaign following the 2004 election. It is convened by Steve and Jackie Grumbacher who headed the Kerry campaign in Lebanon County.

The agenda for the December meeting is a holiday party. We will also discuss:

  1. Planning a meeting with our local state representatives. At the last meeting, the group decided that it was time to begin dialogue with our State Senator and our two State representatives about our progressive issues. We need to plan how to contact them, whether we meet with them together, what issues to bring up, venue, and whether to open the meeting up to the public. Please join us to help in the planning.
  2. Health Care. The Obama administration has made promises to try to fix our broken health care system and prospective incoming Secretary of HEW, Tom Daschle, has asked groups to get together locally to discuss what is needed to reform our health care. Our own John Rose will be leading the discussion on this subject. I know a lot of us have our own opinions on this, so come prepared. I’ve attached the Obama organization’s health care proposal initial thoughts for background. If you can’t make it, please send me your thoughts and I’ll forward them to John.

If you wish to be placed on the mailing list for LEAD contact Steve Grumbacher (717) 838-8485.

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