July 15, 2004
Make signs tonight, wave them tomorrow
From an email I got today: (Oh, and rumor has it that the Pigmobile might make an early arrival in order to meet the President.)
President Bush is coming to Tampa on this Friday, July 16th for a Department of Justice conference on sex trafficking. I'm going to join the MoveOn contingent to demand that he apologize to conference participants and to the public for breaking his promises to America's women.Posted by Norwood at July 15, 2004 12:28 AMBush ran on a "W is for Women" pledge. Yet, his record is a long list of empty and broken promises to women, from doing nothing to lower health care costs, to cutting funding for women's health care programs and shelters for battered women, to cutting Violence Against Women programs.
Join me this Friday to Protest President Bush's visit and his record of broken promises to women! We'll be in front of the Tampa Marriot Waterside Hotel, 700 S. Florida Ave., in downtown Tampa, at 8:30am. Sign up here.
President Bush has become adept at saying one thing and doing another. We have an opportunity to shine the spotlight on his poor record, but we need your help.
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[1] Bush Administration cuts $2.8 billion for shelters for battered women. The 2004 Bush Administration budget included cuts of $2.8 billion to programs which support shelters for battered women. [Source: United Press International, 10/9/03][2] Bush Administration cuts $12.5 million for Violence Against Women Program. The 2004 Bush Administration budget included $12.5 million in cuts to the Department of Justice grants for the Violence Against Women Program, which will weaken efforts to fight violence against women. [Source: United Press International, 10/9/03]
[3] Bush 2005 budget eliminates $20 million Justice Department program to aid victims of human trafficking. [Source: Baltimore Sun, 2/3/04; Office of House Democratic Leader, 3/15/04]
