Our campaign to urge Representative Pou to sign on to HR 3069 is underway! You’re in the right spot to figure out how you can help –
NJUHC leaders and NJ-9 constituents met with Rep Pou’s staff about M4A in October of 2025. Two NJUHC reps directly challenged her to sign on during an on-line event in February. She promised to “seriously consider” co-sponsoring HR3069, but her name still doesn’t appear as a co-sponsor.
Our strategy is simple: generate a buzz online; circulate petitions; mail in postcards; and generate calls, emails and short videos to Representative Pou’s office in Paterson. Here are ways you can help; we need you to make this campaign a success!
- Gather signatures on our petition from your friends and neighbors in NJ-9. To get a reproducible, bi-lingual hard copy petition form send a request to Tom at [email protected]. To sign the petition on line, or to send to others to do the same, use this link: act.medicare4all.org/signup/pou-petition
- Get your friends and neighbors in NJ-9 to fill out and mail bi-lingual postcards to Representative Pou’s office. To get post cards sent to you, contact Lloyd at [email protected]. Note that they are large post cards and require a first class (78 cent) stamp.
- Video folks in NJ-9 (approximately 1 min, no more) with health care stories to tell and with strong reasons why they support M4A. Get their permission to send it to Rep Pou and to post it online. You may also send the videos to Tayler Szabo at [email protected], and she will be posting them online, in addition to providing the videos to the Bergen/Passaic Democratic Socialist Chapter for them to post on their socials. If you do not want Tayler to pass along the videos to DSA, please say so in the email message to her.
- Recruit folks to do the above at tabling events in NJ-9, or to table on their own. Firm tabling dates are 5/26, 5/27 and June 2. We will be at CUMAC (food bank and community center) in Paterson from 11AM-1PM on 5/26 and 6/2. We are still open to suggestions about other locations. Let Tom at [email protected] know of your availability to help with tabling, and to suggest locations where you can help. You can also RSVP for the May 26 tabling event here: Paterson Medicare for All Crowd Canvass and for the June 2 event here: Paterson Medicare for All Crowd Canvass.
If you want to table on your own, let Tom know, and he will send you (Priority Mail or UPS) everything you need – flyers, petitions, post-cards, etc. - Send an opinion letter to the Paterson Times, Herald or Especialito (Bergen and Passaic County edition) indicating support for M4A and urging Rep Pou to co-sponsor HR3069. Share what you submit and let us know if it gets printed in hard copy or online.
- During the week of June 8 -12 we hope to put phones to work, asking folks in NJ-9 to do two things. First, if they haven’t yet made a call to Pou’s office telling her to co-sponsor HR3069, the Medicare for All Act of 2025, then tell them to do so. DC office 202-225-5751; Paterson office: 973-523-5152. Second, we want to urge folks to attend the rally – see below. We hope you’ll make calls to your own contacts, but if you need a list, contact Sam at [email protected], and he’ll send you one.
- Plan to attend the rally and brief march in Paterson on June 18 at noon where we will deliver all petitions in person to Rep Pou’s office. For this event, we welcome folks from all over the State to support the NJ-9 locals. The rally location will be at 32-46 Clark Street, Paterson, NJ. It is a small park located at the corner of Ward and Clark Streets, a three block walk west on Ward Street from the Paterson stop on NJ Transit’s Main Line. June 18 is during the week when Congress is not in session and members of Congress are “in-district”. National Nurses United will provide an on-line event RSVP which we will share as soon as we have it. Bring your own signs to supplement those we have; we’ll have a short march from the rally site to Rep Pou’s office.
Thanks for your help!
In case you need it, here’s the list of towns and townships that are in NJ-9 –
Bergen County (24):
Carlstadt, Cliffside Park, East Rutherford, Edgewater, Elmwood Park, Fairview, Franklin Lakes,
Garfield, Hasbrouck Heights, Little Ferry, Lodi, Lyndhurst, Maywood (part, also 5th), Moonachie,
North Arlington, Oakland, Ridgefield, Rochelle Park, Rutherford, Saddle Brook, South
Hackensack, Teterboro, Wallington, Wood-Ridge
Hudson County (2):
Kearny (part, also 8th), Secaucus
Passaic County (9):
Clifton, Haledon, Hawthorne, North Haledon, Passaic, Paterson, Pompton Lakes, Prospect
Park, Wayne (part, also 11th; includes Pines Lake and part of Preakness)
