Congressional Support Growing For Cindy

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Blogged by JC on 08.10.05 @ 10:22 PM ET
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Congressional Support Growing For Cindy
Letter Signed by 38 Members Delivered Today

Today I submitted a letter to the White House signed by 38 Members calling on the president to meet with Cindy Sheehan and to protect her constitutional right to petition her government. Buzzflash (among others) has a copy of the letter. The number of signatories has grown from a half dozen on the first day, to 16 yesterday, to 38 today. This is a quite encouraging number given that we are on recess, and many Members are out of pocket.

I think Congressional support is quite important since the White House and the right wing attack machine are gearing up to discredit Cindy. Today Maureen Dowd had an excellent piece in the New York Times - http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/10/opinion/10dowd.html?oref=login&pagewanted=print
- detailing this latest hypocrisy by the Administration. She also explains how the White House is attempting to taint this courageous mother: "The Bush team tried to discredit 'Mom' by pointing reporters to an old article in which she sounded kinder to W. If only her husband were an undercover C.I.A. operative, the Bushies could out him. But even if they send out a squad of Swift Boat Moms for Truth, there will be a countering Falluja Moms for Truth." Media Monitors has another good piece on the "Plaming of Cindy." http://usa.mediamonitors.net/content/view/full/17653

This story and Cindy's bravery are not going away, and I'm sure much more will be coming in the coming days and weeks.

On a slightly unrelated note, I noted that recently that I partcipated in an excellent Harpers magazine forum a few weeks ago on the Ohio election scandal and the need for reform. The full audio can be accessed here, and is worth a listen. http://www.harpers.org/WhatWentWrongInOhio.html

http://www.buzzflash.com/alerts/05/08/ale05114.html

pdf version - http://www.buzzflash.com/alerts/05/08/images/pressheehanltr81005.pdf



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