Protest Voinovich's Sell-out Fundraiser

This arrived in the email today and I think it is definitely worth passing along. I may just attend this event:

PROTEST SEN. VOINOVICH’S SELL-OUT

FUNDRAISER WITH Fmr. PRESIDENT BUSH PAYBACK FOR VOTE AGAINST TROOP WITHDRAWAL

BUSH SR./VOINOVICH PROTEST

WHERE: Intersection of Fairmount Blvd and Chagrin River Rd. Hunting Valley, OH

Iraq Summer/Americans Against Escalation in Iraq

Wednesday August 8, 2007

7 p.m.

-LAKE COUNTY CARPOOL: Meet at 7575 Tyler Blvd. Mentor, Ohio at 6:15 p.m.-

Too far away?

Click here to write a letter to the editor about this unseemly political payback

Political Payback You Be The Judge:

Former President George H.W. Bush comes to town tomorrow for a fundraiser for Senator George Voinovich which was announce on the same day Senator Voinovich – a sometimes vocal critic on Iraq – voted against an Amendment to begin withdrawal of troops.

• June 26, 2007: Senator Voinovich in a well publicized letter to President Bush announced his break with the Bush Administration’s Iraq policy and the need to bring troops home.
• July 10, 2007 the President then visited Cleveland to shore up GOP support for his Administration.
• July 18, 2007 the Plain Dealer reporter the President’s father would be hosting a fundraiser for Senator Voinovich.
• July 18, 2007 the Senator then announced his intention to vote against the Levin Amendment which would have laid out a plan for troop reduction in Iraq.

“This smacks of a political payback,” said Brian Rothenberg, Executive Director of ProgressOhio.org. “On the same day the President’s critic flip-flops and votes with the administration his family member announces a fundraiser. It hardly seems coincidental.