Billionaire Press Hits

MoveOn council to stage support for health care reform

Published by Lawrence Journal-World on December 7, 2009 | Comments

“It will be a game show format with an announcer and three Vanna White lookalikes who will display three possible answers for each question. The public is encouraged to play and will be up against ‘Billionaires for Wealthcare.’”

Chase Foster

Published by Independent Weekly on November 25, 2009 | Comments

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“We said, ‘Tell us your disease.’ Then we invited them to walk it off on the red carpet, which was fun,” Foster explains, “and we offered them an Advil. That was our answer to health care—walk it off!”

It was parody, of course, though, as Foster says, a lot of people didn’t get it right away—and when they did, some didn’t appreciate being the butt of the Billionaires’ humor.

On the other hand, the Billionaires were well appreciated by the millions of progressives who’d worked to put Barack Obama in the White House, only to watch helplessly as the right wing ripped his health care plan apart, before he even had a health care plan.

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Amazing things you didn’t see on the news tonight

Published by Daily Kos on November 21, 2009 | Comments

“[The Billionaires were] able to thank two of their ‘business partners’ in the Senate, Bob Corker (R, TN) and Chuck Grassley (R, IA) in person. Corker seemed happy to see them, even thanking the Billionaires for being there; Grassley seemed a little less enthusiastic.”

Tea partiers punk’d into supporting removal of white people from US

Published by Raw Story on November 16, 2009 | Comments

“In August, a farcical group calling itself Billionaires for WealthCare mocked opponents of health care reform with slogans such as ‘If God loved the poor people, he wouldn’t let them get sick,’ and ‘Healthcare rationing, that’s our job!’”

Conservatives call for retaking of country in ’10

Published by Toledo Blade on November 15, 2009 | Comments

“Outside the theater, three people protested the conservative gathering by pretending to be wealthy protectors of the current health-care system. Wearing fake diamonds and carrying champagne glasses, the ‘Billionaires for Wealthcare’ also waved signs saying, ‘Thank You for Protecting Our Wealth.’”

Health care demonstrations in Rochester bring sides together

Published by Rochester Post-Bulletin on November 12, 2009 | Comments

Their conversation started a bit sarcastically, they both said.

“We all have ridiculous signs,” Lewallen said.

Radmann wore silver pants and carried a sign that read, “Billionaires for Health Care.” Lewallen’s sign showed a cartoon drawing of an operation, and read, “Government health care plan is life threatening. We have the czar to prove it.”

Bobbi Lewallen, left, of Rochester, and Toni Radmann, of Roseville, discuss health care during opposing demonstrations Thursday along Seventh Street Northwest, outside U.S. Sen. Amy Klobuchar’s Rochester office.