PROTEST of BUSH in NEW YORK CITY on JUNE 23

Protest on Monday, June 23rd at 5:00 pm to 7:00 pm in Manhattan at Seventh Avenue where Bush will be staging a $2,000 a plate Presidential re-election campaign fund-raiser at the Sheraton New York Hotel.  

Thousands of people are expected to protest the unelected President who is seeking a second term and his administration's policies, including unprovoked military aggression against occupied Iraq, corrupt influence of corporate interests,  and disregard for the environment, women's rights and civil rights.  

The Sheraton New York Hotel is located on Seventh Avenue between 52nd Street and 53rd Street.  There will be permitted protest sites along the westerly side of Seventh Avenue, south of 52nd Street to 49th Street and north of 53rd Street to 56th Street.  

The Voter March contingent will be at West 54th and Seventh Avenue (southwest corner), and will be joined by co-sponsors NoBloodForOil.org,  Democracy March.     Greg Palast, internationally acclaimed investigative reporter and author, will be our special guest speaker for his last appearance in New York City for the summer, along with Bob Fertik, founder and Managing Director of Democrats.com and Lou Posner, founder and Executive Director of Voter March, Ltd.  We will have a stage and professional 4 speaker sound system.  Please download and distribute our pdf FLYER.   

Other groups protesting include United for Peace and Justice, Planned Parenthood, International Action Center (ANSWER), and the New York City Immigration Coalition.  For more information, click on PPNYC Protest  

ACTION REMINDERS: The Bush-Cheney regime could be coming 

 

 

Cash Aim of Bush Sweep, Daily News

 WASHINGTON - Bush begins raising money in earnest this week for his 2004 re-election effort with a 2-week, cross-country sprint expected to take in millions of dollars.

 

First lady Laura Bush and Bush's 2004 running mate, Dick Cheney, also will hit the fund-raising circuit.

 

In all, Bush is expected to raise $200 million or more for his Primary campaign over the next several months, at least twice the record $100 million he collected for the 2000 Primaries.

 

Assisting Bush are fund-raising volunteers, including the "Pioneers" who played a key role in 2000 by raising at least $100,000 each.  A new class of fund-raisers, known as the "Rangers," will collect at least $200,000 each for Bush's campaign.

 

Bush officially entered the race last month.  He immediately began raising money on his campaign Web site and through the mail.

 

Bush plans his first fund-raiser Tuesday in Washington, a $2,000-per-person reception at the Washington Hilton where donors will get hamburgers, hot dogs and nachos.

 

Bush will follow it up with a series of $2,000-per-person events across the country, including Friday in Greensboro, Ga.; June 23 in New York; June 27 in suburban San Francisco & Los Angeles; and June 30 in Miami and Tampa, Fla.

 

Cheney will headline campaign events this month, including fund-raisers June 23 in Richmond, Va.,  and in the Boston area, and June 30 in Ohio and Grand Rapids, Mich.

 

Laura Bush is to attend Bush-Cheney fund-raisers Friday in Chattanooga, Tenn., and June 25 in Philadelphia and Cincinnati.

Fund-Raising Push by Bush Will Put Rivals Far Behind

By RICHARD W. STEVENSON and ADAM NAGOURNEY, New York Times

ASHINGTON, June 14 — Bush is embarking on a fund-raising sprint that Republicans say will collect at least $20 million in 2 weeks.

 

Bush's efforts will begin in Washington, D.C. on Tuesday [June 17th], with a $2,000-a-person reception at the Washington Hilton ballroom, just a few blocks from the White House.  Over the next 2 weeks,  Bush will travel the country to attend 6 more fund-raisers, while Dick Cheney appears at 4 and Laura Bush at 3, all to raise money for Bush-Cheney '04 Inc., the re-election Committee.

 

Members of both major parties said Bush might, in those 2 weeks, come close to matching the $26 million raised by all 9 Democratic candidates during the first 3 months of the year, the most recent period for which figures are available.  At that pace, Bush seems well on his way to shattering the fund-raising record he himself set in the 2000 race, when he took in $100 million in his fight for the Republican nomination, redefining standards for modern-day presidential fund-raising.

 

Even coming close would confirm what many strategists consider to be among Bush's biggest advantages over the field of Democrats: his ability to command huge sums of money with a minimal investment of time and energy.  As Bush breezes in & out of fund-raisers packed with donors whom aides describe as "falling over one another to write checks", the 9 Democrats have been largely forced off the campaign trail

to deal with fund-raising demands that have emerged as a tremendous drain on their time & resources.

 

Republicans involved in Bush's campaign said they were expecting to raise $170 million, significantly more than Bush raised for the Primaries in the 2000' race.  All this money would go to finance activities that take place during the Primary season, even though Bush does not face a challenge for his party's nomination.  After Bush is formally nominated at the Republican Convention in Sept. 2004, his Campaign

plans to accept Federal matching funds.

 

Bush's initial fund-raising will focus on cities where there is a concentration of donors, or a conservative base, or both.  After Washington D.C., Bush will go to an event next Friday at the Ritz Carlton Hotel at the Reynolds Plantation, a resort outside Atlanta owned by the family of Mercer Reynolds III, the Bush campaign's finance chairman.

 

On June 23rd, Bush will attend what may be his biggest event, a reception in New York.  Bush will hit Los Angeles & San Francisco in a single day, on June 27, and three days later will visit Miami & Tampa.  In Tampa alone, organizers say, they are expecting as many as 900 attendees at $2,000 per person, a $1.8 million haul for the Bush-Cheney Campaign.