Antiwar forces take aim at GOP lawmakers
Christian Science Monitor
07/16/07
With the war in Iraq roiling Congress, antiwar groups are targeting dozens of lawmakers –- many facing tough reelection races in 2008 -– in a bid to peel off enough Republicans to force President Bush to end the war there. Organizers claim that breaks in GOP ranks over war strategy in recent weeks are a result of more heat from home – and that they helped to generate it. As debate resumes this week, they predict, more defections will occur. ‘We’re running a political campaign with a long horizon,’ says Tom Matzzie of MoveOn.org Political Action, who is managing the ‘Iraq Summer’ campaign for Americans Against Escalation in Iraq (AAEI). ‘We’ll gain more … momentum over the next few weeks, and more Republicans will break’...
http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0716/p02s02-uspo.html
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=GOP
07/16/07
With the war in Iraq roiling Congress, antiwar groups are targeting dozens of lawmakers –- many facing tough reelection races in 2008 -– in a bid to peel off enough Republicans to force President Bush to end the war there. Organizers claim that breaks in GOP ranks over war strategy in recent weeks are a result of more heat from home – and that they helped to generate it. As debate resumes this week, they predict, more defections will occur. ‘We’re running a political campaign with a long horizon,’ says Tom Matzzie of MoveOn.org Political Action, who is managing the ‘Iraq Summer’ campaign for Americans Against Escalation in Iraq (AAEI). ‘We’ll gain more … momentum over the next few weeks, and more Republicans will break’...
http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0716/p02s02-uspo.html
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=GOP
rudkla - 16. Jul, 11:29
