Failed Bush-Cheney Leadership Leaves Idaho Workers And Veterans Behind

[MaineDem]

For Immediate Release
August 15, 2005

Contact: Luis Miranda, 202-863-8148

Failed Bush-Cheney Leadership Leaves Idaho Workers And Veterans Behind

Washington, DC - Less than two weeks after President Bush signed the Dominican
Republic-Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA-DR), Vice President Dick
Cheney sweeps into Boise tonight for a fundraiser benefiting Idaho Republican
Senator Larry Craig. While the Bush Administration's failed leadership has
slashed benefits for Idaho veterans and undercut the sugar beet industry in
Idaho, Senator Craig is set to collect thousands of dollars from the Bush-
Cheney fundraising machine.

Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean today issued the following
statement:


"The Bush Administration's failed leadership may be having a devastating impact
on Idaho's veterans and sugar beet producers, but that won't stop Vice
President Cheney from flying in to raise some cash for Senator Craig. While he
is in Boise, Vice President Cheney ought to to explain why the Bush
Administration sold out the Idaho sugar industry. He could also use his trip to
explain why Republicans in Washington have failed to fully fund health benefits
for thousands of brave Idahoans who have fought on the front lines of the war
on terrorism. These are not Democratic values, they are not Idaho values, and
they are certainly not American values. Idaho may be a so-called 'red state,'
but ordinary Idahoans must be red with anger over the Bush Administration's
failed leadership."

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[KC21304]

1. Superb ! Way to go, Howard.

[shance]

2. This is a small and accurate snapshot of what is happening in red states.

by this Administration.

Thanks for posting*