Posted by Unnamed Mailer on July 19, 2003 at 19:37:48:
Greetings!Dennis Kucinich is the best Progressive choice among the candidates going for
the Democratic nomination for President. Dennis will be in Eugene on Sunday.
Please note the following details:
6:00 p.m.
Eugene, Oregon
Community Gathering with Dennis Kucinich
University of Oregon,
180 PLC (Prince Lucien Campbell) Hall
1415 KincaidFriday, July 18, 2003
DENNIS KUCINICH: THE PROGRESSIVE CHOICEAs a candidate for President, I offer a different vision for America, one
which separates me from the other candidates. I am the only candidate for
President who will take this country away from fear and war and tax giveaways, and
use America's peace dividend for guaranteed health care for all, ending health
care for profit. I am the only candidate who will stop the privatization of
social security and bring the retirement age back to 65.As President, I will cancel NAFTA and the WTO, restore our manufacturing
jobs, save our family farms, create full employment programs, create new jobs by
rebuilding our cities and schools. As President, I will repeal the Patriot Act
to regain for all Americans the sacred right of privacy in our homes, our
libraries, our schools.This is a grassroots campaign to take back America. Join me from your cities,
your towns, your farms and your campuses. (Presidential Debate, ABC News,
5/3/03)
7/9/2003
Kucinich: Cut Bloated Pentagon Budget to Fund Education For the second day in
a row, Rep. Kucinich took to the House Floor to call for cutting wasteful
military spending to fund domestic programs.Yesterday, in debate on the $368
billion Defense Department Appropriations Bill, he singled out the F22 fighter
plane, the V22 Ospry and other unnecessary weapons systems. Today, in a debate on
an education bill, he continued to critique Pentagon waste and misplaced
priorities:"We will pass this bill today, the Ready to Teach Act, and in doing so,
we all agree that the country needs the federal government to spend $300
million on teacher preparation and retention. But in fact, we won't spend that
much on teacher preparation and retention. The President has asked that we spend
only $90 million, or 30 percent of what we today all agree is necessary.
Why?"Yesterday we passed a Defense spending bill that spends $8.9 billion on the
National Missile Defense system that doesn't work, and today we will pass an
education bill that, if fully funded, would work. But we won't fully fund
it."There is money for education. We could re-allocate the $8.9 billion for missile
defense and put it into education. We'd have money to hire and train thousands
more qualified teachers. We'd have money to buy 9 million new computers for
our children and schools. We'd have the money
to fully fund and expand the Head Start program, DEA, and The No Child Left
Behind Act."National Missile Defense doesn't work. Teachers do. They work for
our children, they work for America, and they work for our future."7/9/2003
Kucinich: Bush White House Manipulated Congress Dennis Kucinich, leading
opponent of Iraq war in the House, took to the floor again today to speak out
against White House deception in the pre-war period, and to demand public
hearings."More attention needs to be paid to false and misleading statements that
preceded the vote on the Iraq Resolution in this House. Two days before the vote,
on October 8, 2002, speaking in Cincinnati, the President spoke of his
determination to attack Iraq: 'Facing clear evidence of peril, we cannot wait for the
final proof - - the smoking gun - - that could come in the form of a mushroom
cloud'."This chilling, apocalyptic statement was not based on clear evidence of
peril, but was in fact based on falsehoods, hidden from public view by the office
of the Vice President."Did the Vice President's office knowingly conceal
information its own representative obtained that Iraq was in fact not attempting to
purchase nuclear materials from Niger? Was the White House in possession of
this same information prior to the President giving his shocking declaration in
Cincinnati?"There is no question that the President's statements we now know
were false and misleading influenced the debate in this House and the decision
to go to war. It is imperative we have open, public hearings to wash this
stain from our national reputation."
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