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Tuesday, August 08, 2006

Cheney to boost Chabot campaign

Invitations have just gone out for an Aug. 24 fundraiser with Vice President Dick Cheney for Rep. Steve Chabot's re-election campaign . Chabot faces Democrat John Cranley in what could be a difficult re-election campaign this fall.

The event will be held Aug. 24 at the home of Dennis & Patricia Ott in Cincinnati.

Doors open at 3 p.m. for guests arriving to attend a 5 p.m. photo opportunity with Cheney and a 5:30 p.m. reception with the vice president, during which Cheney will make a few remarks.

It costs $2,100 per person or couple to get a photo with the Veep; $1,500 per couple or $1,000 per person to attend the reception.

Also on the host committee:

Elaine and Robert Bollin
Ronda and Doug Corn
Dee Dee and John Deremo
Dina and Gary Gruber
Gretchen and Kory Lyons
Barbara and Anthony Maas
Gayle and Mike McCafferty
Laura and Douglas Meyer
Marcia and Dr. Gary Pies
Ann and H. Lawrence Roy
Mary and Thomas Schiller


3 Comments:

at 12:46 PM, August 09, 2006 Anonymous Anonymous said...

Oh, Indian Hill folks. That's excellent. Glad to see Chabot pulling support from within his own district.....

 
at 4:20 PM, August 09, 2006 Anonymous Anonymous said...

It’s true. Dick Cheney and Senator Arlen Specter (R-PA) have agreed that the government should be able to access Americans' conversations and emails without getting an individualized warrant. But that isn’t all they’re after.

Under the guise of responding to the NSA spying scandal, the Bush administration and its allies in Congress are actually pushing for new ways to invade your privacy, with unprecedented and dangerous spying legislation crafted under Dick Cheney’s supervision.

The bad news is, if these bills pass, our homes, cell phone records and email inboxes will be laid bare to new kinds of government spying that are currently completely illegal. The good news is that we have a chance to stop these bills now, before White House pressure drives them to a speedy vote.

This August you can help generate a public outcry that will make Congress think twice before they hand over even more power to the Bush administration. Call your member of Congress today, and get the word out in your local community with a letter to the editor.

This legislation is being characterized by some as "surveillance we can live with," but the fact is it would vastly expand the government's power to search and spy on Americans without any judicial checks, including reading any email you send if the government does not know where all the recipients are physically located.

Don’t be deceived by claims the Cheney-Specter bill restores judicial review. The legislation really tries to make warrants optional while allowing a secret court to rubber-stamp surveillance of Americans, without even knowing the names of Americans to be wiretapped or whether they’ve done anything wrong. We are running advertisements and working with every contact we have in the major news outlets to counteract the government’s spin, but we need your help.

If you’ve had enough of an administration that’s proven itself grossly indifferent to the rule of law and the balance of power time and time again, on issues from warrantless spying, to secret kidnapping, to the unlawful treatment of Guantanamo detainees, now is the time to say “NO MORE.”

Just last week, President Bush and Attorney General Gonzales were pushing Congress to rubber-stamp a new plan for military commissions at Guantanamo that would violate U.S. law and the Geneva conventions, flying in the face of the recent Supreme Court ruling striking down the entire Bush-sponsored system of detainee trials.

 
at 9:22 PM, August 10, 2006 Anonymous Anonymous said...

From Cincynation.com...

Chabot voted for bill that may
have helped gasoline price rise

One year ago, the Republican-controlled Congress passed the Energy Policy Act, a bill that Congressman Steve Chabot voted for and George Bush signed into law. Many experts say it has been largely ineffective and has even contributed to rising energy costs...

Chabot voted for bill that may
have helped gasoline price rise
One year ago, the Republican-controlled Congress passed the Energy Policy Act, a bill that Congressman Steve Chabot voted for and George Bush signed into law. Many experts say it has been largely ineffective and has even contributed to rising energy costs.

 
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