The Huffington Post: America Mobilizing to Battle Bush

[Omaha Steve]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/gerald-mcentee/america-mobilizing-to-bat_b_66850.html

In the next week AFSCME, Americans United for Change, USAction and a consortium of groups including the AFL-CIO, SEIU, True Majority, and MoveOn are coming together to hold more than 200 events all across the nation focusing on SCHIP, the health care program for low-income children. We are launching a paid advertising campaign and will flood Capitol Hill with hundreds of thousands of calls, letters and e-mails, all demanding that members of Congress vote to override President Bush's expected SCHIP veto.

The campaign we are launching will be big and bold. Over the next few months alone, coalition partners will spend $3 million to $5 million - with AFSCME putting in a significant chunk.

Why? Because the stakes are high.

Bush and the Republican leadership want to stand in the way of funding important domestic priorities like cancer research, infrastructure improvements and veterans programs.

They talk about supporting the troops but drop the ball when it counts. If Bush really wants to support the troops, he should bring them home and should not block our attempts to get funding for veterans.

This President was announcing his plans to veto health care for children while in the same breath asking for billions to fund his mismanaged and unpopular war with no end in Iraq.

FULL story at link.

[louis-t]

1. I envision a million people...

standing in front of the White House chanting "NO, NO, NO, NO, NO...."

[calteacherguy]

2. And Hillary will lead them. nt