Hundreds Attend Vigil Outside Lieberman's Home Over Health Care

First Posted: 03/18/10 06:12 AM ET Updated: 05/25/11 03:40 PM ET

React

Important
Funny
Typical
Scary
Outrageous
Amazing
Innovative
Finally

Senate Health Bill , Health Care Vigil , Joe Lieberman Health Care , Joe Lieberman Public Option , Lieberman Filibuster , Lieberman Health Care Vigil , Lieberman Health Care Vote , Lieberman Health Reform , Nterfaith Fellowship For Universal Health Care , Politics News

share this story

Get Politics Alerts

Submit this story

The Stamford Advocate:

Quietly holding candles, hundreds of clergymen, congregants and reform advocates lined the sidewalks outside Independent U.S. Sen. Joe Lieberman's Stamford home Sunday night in a show of support for universal health care.

"When we heard not only would he vote against it, but he'd use his power, his position as a swing vote ... to block it from coming to a vote, we had to send a message so he knows people who vote overwhelmingly favor the public option," said Rabbi Stephen Fuchs, of Congregation Beth Israel in West Hartford.

Read the whole story: The Stamford Advocate

FOLLOW HUFFPOST POLITICS

Facebook:

129k

Twitter:

Get Alerts

CONTRIBUTE

TO THIS STORY

Read more from Huffington Post bloggers:

Vanessa Carmichael: And Once Again, It's Abortion

The U.S. House of Representatives has passed a comprehensive health care plan for the United States -- a plan that will cover 96% of Americans. That is a victory for women.

D. Brad Wright: Health Care Prices Around the World

Starting today and running into the beginning of next week, I'm going to be making some pretty charts that demonstrate just how the U.S. stacks up against its counterparts among rich, industrialized nations.

David Sirota: Afghan Escalation Would Make One-Year Pentagon Budget Almost As Big as Entire 10-Year Health Bill

Only in Washington is a big return on taxpayer investment and a $109 billion reduction in the deficit an example of something that's "costly" to taxpayers.

Filed by Elyse Siegel |