Harkin Town Hall Meetings on Social Security
by Caroline Vernon
Senator
Tom Harkin will be holding a series of town hall meetings this week-end
in order to discuss the future of Social Security.
Local
forces in favor of privatization are targeting these meetings in order
to put pressure on him to support Bush’s proposal, regardless of the
fact that a recent Des Moines Register poll revealed that 65% of Iowans
oppose privatizing Social Security. Let’s rally together and send a
message that we support the Senator’s efforts to protect such an
important social program.
Please recruit your friends and family members and encourage them to attend one of these town hall meetings:
Saturday, April 23 – 10am
St. Ambrose University
Rogalski Center
Davenport
Saturday, April 23 – 1pm
Grant Wood Area Education Agency
4401 6th St SW
Cedar Rapids
Saturday, April 23 – 3:45pm
Mason City Public Library
225 2nd St SE
Mason City
(please use entrance by double garage doors)
Sunday, April 24 – 12:30pm
Northwest Community Center
5110 Franklin Ave
Des Moines
“Social
Security is an important lifeline for Iowa’s seniors, people with
disabilities and family members of deceased recipients. We can
strengthen Social Security in a bi-partisan way with reasonable
moderate steps, but we need to do it right. There is no excuse to rush
into a plan that will drive up debt and cut benefits for Iowa’s seniors
and people with disabilities.”
– U.S. Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA)
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