GWB question: what is PULL????

[cap]

what is PULL and where can one find information about it?

Houston based PULL has no web address and no phone number?

Did it go out of business?

What records exist on it?

[grasswire]

1. try either google...

...or Jim Hatfield's book. Actually, salon.com had a couple of articles about PULL a few years ago. You might try there. The interesting thing is that the director of the organization was named Bush.

[seemslikeadream]

2. here is a little info

http://www.miftah.org/Dialogue/viewmessages.cfm?Forum=8&Topic=3751
http://www.google.com/search?q=p.u.l.l.+texas+1972&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&start=10&sa=N

and look here something from DU, a while back

http://www.democraticunderground.com/articles/02/04/09_volunteers.html

[salin]

3. a little info from W himself...

from a Bush Convention Video

GWB: Well, a wonderful man named John White asked me to come and work with him in a project in the 3rd Ward of Houston called Project P.U.L.L.; it was a mentoring program.

Ernie Ladd, Co-founder P.U.L.L.: The meaning of P.U.L.L. was Professionals United Leadership League. We had professional people who were school teachers, football players, basketball players, lawyers and doctors involved in helping go into the community and help minority kids.

GWB: I realized then that a society can change and must change one person at a time and, but it was a place that was full of activity and energy and kids were, you know kids were coming from tough circumstances. I saw that first hand one night when I took a little boy who I took a shining to, named Jimmy Dean, I took him home and situation I had never seen before. It was a living room with his mom, looked like she was on drugs and there was a bunch of hanger on-ers and smoke-filled and this was this boys home, and it was tragic and sad that he was growing up in such a tough environment, an environment that where the love that I had known as a child--it seemed like the drugs and alcohol abuse had replaced that love. And unfortunately the story ends on a sad note. My little friend was shot when he became a teenager and died.

Ernie Ladd: We are all made in the image of God regardless of the color of skin and George Bush was a part of our working in the south of the city of Houston. The city of Houston can be very well thankful for George Bush and John White.

http://www.gwu.edu/~action/repconv/bushvideo.html