Reply #49: PETITION done . . .. HERE .....

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Don't think too many are going to notice it, however --

The coddled quintet of Cuban Americans in Congress are indeed "deeply troubled", but it is not by "economic benefits to the Cuban regime".

The roughly 100,000 Americans who will probably go for people-to-people non-tourist visits are insignificant financially to a country that received 2.4 million foreigners last year.

What makes their travel a problem for the shrinking minority of hard liners in the Cuban American community is that the travelers will bring back a far more complicated view of Cuba and the transition taking place there already and think that any travel restrictions and the embargo as a whole are ludicrous and counterproductive.

However the intensity of their feeling and the amount of campaign contributions being sent around the country from Miami create a real inhibition to travel liberalization by the Obama Administration.

This instantly transferred letter to the President is one way to counteract their baleful backward looking influence
http://www.change.org/petitions/view/mr_president_be_bo...

John McAuliff
Fund for Reconciliation and Development