Dear Representatives,

It has come to the attention of the American people that Senator Joe Lieberman from Connecticut, who is a member of the democratic caucus, Chairman of the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental affairs and holds seats in the committees on Armed Services and Small Business, has expressed his willingness to break from his caucus and stand with republicans in their effort to block a health reform bill that includes a public option. Your duty to the American people this session is to pass a meaningful health reform bill that will lower health care costs and make health insurance affordable and accessible to millions of Americans who are currently uninsured. Allowing Senator Lieberman to break from the caucus on a procedural vote would be disastrously counterproductive to the considerable effort towards this goal that has already been made - not only by Congressional democrats, but the millions of Americans who favor a public option for health insurance and elected President Obama based on his stated desire to make that option a reality. We will not stand by and allow one person to act as a roadblock to reform. Senator Lieberman was not elected into office as a representative of the insurance industry, and the best interest of the American public does not reflect the same interest in insurance company profits as the insurance companies and corporate lobbies who have so generously filled Senator Lieberman's campaign coffers with contributions over the course of his congressional career. A majority of Americans favor a government-run public option for health insurance similar to Medicare and Medicaid, the existing government-run health insurance options for the elderly and indigent. Does Senator Lieberman, like at least 55 republican representatives who are aged 65 or older and also oppose giving the public a government-run option for health insurance, participate in one of those government-run insurance options himself? Do we really need to remind Senator Lieberman that his salary and his health insurance premiums (Medicare or otherwise) are paid for by those American citizens who are either shut out of or continuously abused by the insurance market that congressional democrats are working so hard to reform? I suppose it's easy for Senator Lieberman to ignore what the majority of Americans want when the insurance lobbies are paying him significantly more than his personal annual allotment of American tax dollars, siphoned out of the purchases and paychecks of the people who elected him, and the people he has now chosen to ignore. I've got news for Mr. Lieberman, but the American people can ignore a thing or two of their own - and ignoring incumbent candidates from Connecticut running for re-election in 2010 is steadily climbing to the top of the list. Are congressional democrats going to stand idly by and allow Senator Lieberman to thwart the will of the American people by pandering to the insurance industry lobby and opposing health reform, or are you going to stand up for the best interests of your constituents and let Senator Lieberman know there will be consequences for his actions? For now, the choice is yours. It's time to show the American people who is really working for them, and who isn't.

[Your name here]