The political nonprofit organization aligned with House Speaker Paul Ryan on Thursday launched a robocall campaign targeting voters in 30 districts that are represented mostly by Republicans opposed to the GOP healthcare bill.
American Action Network is applying pressure to the House Freedom Caucus, the group of Republican insurgents pressing Ryan and President Trump to make changes to the American Health Care Act. The chairman of the Freedom Caucus, Rep. Mark Meadows of North Carolina, said his group has the votes to block the legislation in the House.
The 1 million-robocalls campaign is part of the group’s ongoing campaign to encourage passage of the AHCA. The group has spent more than $10 million this year alone promoting Republican health care policy. Here is the script of the robocall, voiced by a generic male:
After eight years of suffering under Obamacare, conservatives are close to repealing and replacing Obamacare with President Trump and Speaker Ryan’s reforms to lower costs, eliminate job destroying mandates, and put patients and doctors in charge of health care instead of Washington bureaucrats. The legislation to repeal and replace Obamacare is coming up for a vote very soon.
Please contact your congressman [name] at [phone number] and tell him to join you in supporting President Trump and Speaker Ryan’s plan to repeal Obamacare and replace it with the American Health Care Act.
Targeted Republicans include: Meadows; Reps. Mo Brooks and Gary Palmer of Alabama; Reps. Paul Gosar, David Schweikert and Trent Franks of Arizona; Rep. Ken Buck of Colorado; Reps. Ted Yoho, Ron DeSantis and Bill Posey of Florida; Rep. Jody Hice of Georgia; Rep. Rod Blum of Iowa; Rep. Raul Labrador of Idaho; Rep. Andy Harris of Maryland; Rep. Justin Amash of Michigan; Rep. Steve Pearce of New Mexico; Reps. Jim Jordan and Warren Davidson of Ohio; Rep. Jim Bridenstine of Oklahoma; Rep. Scott Perry of Pennsylvania; Reps. Mark Sanford and Jeff Duncan of South Carolina; Rep. Scott DesJarlais of Tennessee; Reps. Louie Gohmert, Ted Poe, Randy Weber and Brian Babin of Texas; Reps. Dave Brat and Morgan Griffith of Virginia and Rep. Alex Mooney of West Virginia.
