Six senators have threatened to filibuster the public option. Click here to make a donation.

We've come so far. The public option is alive because of people like you. When the pundits declared it dead, you voiced your support and Congress heard.

Well, now it looks like we could lose the public option entirely if just one of a handful of senators follows through on their threat to filibuster. We didn't vote for them, but just one could deny us the security, choice, and affordability that the public option would deliver.

There is too much at stake to let that happen without a fight. So we want to run ads in the hometown newspapers of six senators who stand between the nation and health care reform, making it clear to them that the public option is good for small businesses.

Please help our efforts with a special donation today.

Why focus on small businesses? Business owners know first hand that competition brings down costs. That's why so many small business owners have joined us in supporting the public option: It will help bring lower costs and better choices to them and their employees.

We all deserve that. But if Evan Bayh (D-IN), Mary Landrieu (D-LA), Joe Lieberman (I-CT), Blanche Lincoln (D-AR), Ben Nelson (D-NE), or Olympia Snowe (R-ME) follow through on their threat, we all lose.

This week, Ohio PIRG's federal advocates are bringing more than 100 small business owners from around the country to Washington, D.C., to speak directly to our senators, and ask them to stand up for small business and up to the powerful interests standing in the way.

But we also need to keep the pressure on close to home.

So, please click below to help us run these ads in the senators' local newspapers.

https://www.ohiopirg.org/action/health-care/save-the-public-option?id4=es

Sincerely,

Meshawn Ayala
Ohio PIRG Citizen Outreach Director
action@ohiopirg.org
http://www.OhioPIRG.org