Louisiana Crowley Persuasion Does Not Work On Mass Democrat on Health Care Bill

A little Louisiana angle here. Vicki is of course hails from a historic Democrat family.

Not even a Kennedy could convince Rep. Stephen Lynch (D-Mass.) to vote for the health care bill.
Vicki Kennedy, the wife of the late Sen. Ted Kennedy (D-Mass.), spoke with Lynch, asking him to vote for the health care bill, but Lynch, who hails from blue collar south Boston, is still a no vote, saying the bill doesn’t go far enough.
Her message: this is what Teddy would’ve wanted.
His message to her: not so fast. The late Lion of the Senate would not have supported much of what was in this bill.
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n fact, Lynch doesn’t like a lot of what’s in the Senate bill. He doesn’t agree with the “Cadillac” tax on high end health care plans– he’d prefer the House’s excise tax. There isn’t enough cost containment in the Senate bill and Lynch wants the anti-trust exemption repealed from the insurance companies. He said the "health-care reform bill needs some reform."

“My vote, my judgment, my district, my country,” Lynch told POLITICO Friday afternoon. "This is democracy."

Lynch said "if the bill doesn't change, I'm a no."