Bush Legacy Bus Comes to Portsmouth

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DATE: July 3rd, 2008

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Media Advisory for Saturday, July 5th at 5:00 p.m. ET in Portsmouth

The Bush Legacy Bus Comes to Portsmouth, Spotlights Sens. Sununu’s, Gregg’s Work in Washington to Put the Failed Bush/Conservative Agenda Ahead of Everything Else
45-foot, 28 ton Rolling Bush Museum Makes Latest Stop on National Tour / Local NH Progressive Leaders to Hold Sens. Sununu, Gregg Accountable for Enabling Disastrous Bush/Conservative Policies That Have Harmed Our National Security, Ruined the Economy and Sacrificed Key Domestic Priorities

“Yes, Sir, Mr. President” – Sen. Gregg Voted With Bush 93% of the Time

Sununu Rubberstamped Bush’s Policies 89% of the Time
Visit the Bush Legacy Homepage and Take the Virtual Tour:
www.BushLegacyTour.com

Portsmouth, NH – In what supporters of the President have dubbed his <“legacy year,” <Americans United for Change, the progressive issue-advocacy group best known for leading the successful fight to beat back President Bush’s effort to privatize Social Security in 2005, has hit the road its latest effort — the Bush Legacy Bus. The 45-foot long, 28 ton, clean bio-diesel-powered museum on wheels features several interactive exhibits on how two terms of failed conservative policies supported by Bush and his allies — including Sens. John McCain, Judd Gregg and John Sununu – have weakened America’s security abroad while neglecting and undermining important priorities here at home. The latest stop on the national Bush Legacy Tour will be near the corner of Maplewood Ave and Congress Street in Portsmouth on Saturday, July 5th where Americans United along with local NH progressive leaders will hold Sens. John Sununu and Judd Gregg accountable for voting in lockstep with this President’s worst policy failures 89 percent and 93 percent of the time respectively, according to Congressional Quarterly.

They stood with Bush on everything from tax cuts for millionaires that never managed to ‘trickle-down’ to everyone else; to a 2005 Republican energy bill written by and for big oil companies making record profits that did nothing to lower gas prices; to keeping U.S. troops struck in the crosshairs of a religious civil war in Iraq with no end in sight. The bus will be opened to the public where the people of New Hampshire will be given the chance to reflect on how 8 years of failed Bush/conservative polices have left behind an economy in shambles, millions more without health insurance, an endless and mismanaged war in Iraq that has stretched our military to the breaking point, and thousands each day losing their jobs, their homes, and their dignity.

The Bush Legacy tour kicked off in Washington D.C. on June 24th and will travel coast-to-coast throughout the summer, making nearly 150 stops in the hometowns of Bush’s allies in Congress, both national political conventions and symbolic and historic locations like New Orleans and Crawford, TX.

Click here to visit the Bush Legacy Tour homepage:
<http://www.bushlegacytour.com

WHO: Americans United for Change

WHAT: 45-foot, 28 ton Rolling Bush Legacy Museum to be Opened to Public / Sens. Gregg, Sununu to Be Held Accountable for Enabling Disastrous Bush Policies That Have Harmed Our National Security and Sacrificed So Many Domestic Priorities

When: Saturday, July 5th at 5:00 p.m. ET in Portsmouth

Where: Near corner of Maplewood Ave and Congress Street in Portsmouth

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