The momentum is growing and you could feel the energy and excitement this afternoon in Baltimore. With a Wal-Mart in the background, a hospital to our left, and over 100 people in the crowd, Maryland’s Democratic leaders came out in full support to join the fight for health care and make sure that large, profitable companies like Wal-Mart pay their fair share for health care.

There is so much interest in our tour that Wal-Mart even sent people to our event to try and defend itself. But, there is no defense against the facts. And, our facts come right from Wal-Mart’s very own website. So, here it is. Fact: Despite $11 billion in annual profit, Wal-Mart doesn’t provide company health care to over half (54%) of its employees at a cost to taxpayers of at least $1.39 billion every year.

The funniest moment came when we asked Wal-Mart’s right-wing liar in chief, Kevin Sheridan (one of the stars of www.abunchofgreedyrightwingliarswhoworkforwalmart.com), to tell us what the average part-time worker at Wal-Mart makes. Guess what? He refused to answer the question.

After the event, we hit the road to make it to Pittsburgh tonight. And even though the staff is tired, we just decided to do an early morning canvass before our event with Sen. Edwards. So, it’s off to Denny’s to fuel up, even though I’m not really that hungry because Chris’ wife brought us all ice cream (thanks Peggy!), and then on to stop number 5.

By the way, I forgot to mention this yesterday, but last night we broke 250,000 supporters. Amazing! Congratulations everybody, we now have over a quarter of a million Americans who have joined our fight for a better America.

Okay, it’s time to sign off. We are going to all crawl into our cubby holes (the sleepers on the bus are stacked 3 bunks high) and try to sleep, if we can only get Karl to stop snoring.

See you in Pittsburgh!