Last week, former U.S. Rep. Gwen Graham sat in front of a camera and called Sen. Marco Rubio’s office to urge him not to support the upcoming Graham-Cassidy healthcare bill.
No one answered her.
She proceeded to call each of his state offices and saw the same result.
In a video, she can be heard leaving this message:
“Hi Senator Rubio, this is Gwen Graham in Florida and I am calling to implore you to please vote against the Graham-Cassidy bill. I could go through all the reasons, but I think you know them. This is bad for the state of Florida u are a senator representing the state and I expect you will do what is right for the people of Florida. So, I hope you get this message and I hope that you recognize that now is the time to do what is right and to vote against this horrible, horrible bill.”
In a tweet with the video attached, she said this:
Senator @MarcoRubio, answer your phone.
☎️ 202-224-3041 ☎️ pic.twitter.com/yYJ3FRly4x— Gwen Graham (@GwenGraham) September 22, 2017
“Senator [Marco Rubio], answer your phone.”
Rubio’s spokeswoman Olivia Perez-Cubas fired back, calling this a “stunt” and saying that Rubio’s staff was busy helping people apply for FEMA assistance Hurricane Irma relief:
