PI Original Josh Kalven Thursday August 13th, 2009, 9:00am

IL-SEN: DSCC Responds To Kirk's Health Care Meeting

Yesterday, GOP Reps. Mark Kirk and Judy Biggert held a health care meeting at the Naperville Chamber of Commerce. Journalists and some members of the public were allowed inside, but video and audio equipment was prohibited.  So the TV reporters stationed outside the ...

Yesterday, GOP Reps. Mark Kirk and Judy Biggert held a health care meeting at the Naperville Chamber of Commerce. Journalists and some members of the public were allowed inside, but video and audio equipment was prohibited.  So the TV reporters stationed outside the event had little to offer, other than some clips from a press conference held earlier in the day.  Thinking on their feet, the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee sent out a spokesperson, Kathleen Strand, to respond to the "alternative" health care plan being pushed by Kirk, saying "it does not go far enough to fix the broken health care system that he and George W. Bush helped create."  Watch this clip from WGN's afternoon broadcast:

We'll have more on Kirk and Biggert's meeting in our health care round-up later today. In the meantime, be sure to read this Daily Kos post from a diarist who made it inside the event.

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