Please sign to override Pres' veto of Food Stamp, nutrition improvements!

[dajoki]

Please sign to override Pres' veto of Food Stamp, nutrition improvements!
From: Coalition on Human Needs ([e-mail])
Sent:Fri 5/16/08 5:38 PM
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From Our Friends at FRAC (Food Research and Action Center):

We urge your organization to sign onto a national, state, and local organization letter in support of a House (and Senate) effort to override the presidential veto of the Farm Bill (H.R. 2419), scheduled for as early as next week.

As you know, key improvements in the nutrition title include enhancing food stamp benefits, food stamp access, and emergency food purchases.

Even though the House and Senate votes reflect a comfortable, veto-proof majority, efforts to override a presidential veto can be very complicated. Therefore, it becomes necessary to re-double our efforts to work this override. We urge you to forward this alert to your local and state networks so we can send a united and strong message to Congress.

The earliest the veto override could occur is Wednesday, May 21st which would require the letter be sent to Congress as early as Tuesday, May 20th. Given this timeline, we are asking for signatures by COB, Monday, May 19th.

Please enter the information required, including your organization's name as you would like it to appear on the letter. If you have any questions, please contact Ellen Vollinger, [e-mail], Ellen Teller, [e-mail], or Etienne Melcher, [e-mail].

Click here to sign the letter. http://org2.democracyinaction.org/o/5118/t/1472/petition.jsp?petition_KEY=61

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[jeff30997]

1. K&R

[kdmorris]

2. Done!

At a time when 1000's of people are joining the ranks of the starving, when more children go to bed hungry than the day before, this asshole decides to veto something that is so badly needed.

I'm not shocked.

[dajoki]

3. kick

[checks-n-balances]

4. Kicked & Recommened!

[Torn_Scorned_Ignored]

5. Make that BASTARD

go hungry.

Make that bastard go hungry and have to beg for food.

Make that bastard go hungry and have to stand in line with thousands of others for a food basket.

Make that bastard go hungry and have to go to the mission, the church, the soup kitchen every day.

Make that bastard go hungry so he can feed his child what is left of the handout he got last week.

Make that bastard go hungry the last two weeks of the month after his food stamps run out.

I hate him.

[bobbolink]

10. I agree. In the meantime, please do what you can to sign the petition.

Thanks.

:hi:

[eShirl]

6. k & r

[varelse]

7. Done and forwarded to request a little more help

from my friends & family

:kick: and recommended.

[dajoki]

8. One more day!! n/t

[bobbolink]

9. Thanks for posting this!

I didn't, because I get grief for the requests for organizations here on DU, so I try to just post the ones that I can actually get people to take action on.

Thank you for posting the action threads!

:hug:

[dajoki]

11. Well...

I can get all the grief anyone wants to give me, it doesn't matter anymore. When you're as low as I feel right now, nothing matters, I'm sure you know the feeling all too well. I can't be hurt any more than I already have been, I recently had to make some extremely tough decisions, and although I made them, for whatever reason, it has not helped. So there are no meanspirited words that can damage me any more than I already am. :hug:

[bobbolink]

12. kick for some more ACTION! Come on, DUers, this is important!