Bush Legacy Tour

NASHVILLE, TN- We had the good fortune of being stopped for several days in Nashville because the bus had some scheduled maintenance at a shop here in town. You may have seen the photo of the Bush Legacy Bus meeting the Straight Talk Express at the shop. By the time our Tuesday morning event rolled around we had explored the music city and met many locals already.  Our stop in front of the Legislative Building this morning was somewhat anti-climactic at first. The main excitement in Nashville does not usually stem around the decisions made inside that building. Country artists in bars on Broadway don’t typically swoon about civil procedure, school district funding or ethics reform.  International tourists don’t visit the city to get a glimpse of their favorite Tennessee legislator.  It was easy to get wrapped up in the music and fun of the city and forget that it functions just like every other city, and Monday through Friday thousands of people go to work in the office buildings not far from the bars and recording studios that make the city famous. As more and more Nashvillians came on the bus we got a sense of the non-music side of Nashville. We talked to a lot of office workers and government workers who grabbed a peak at the bus during their lunch breaks. Many of whom have seen the trickle down effect of the failed policies of the President at the local level. Some of the government workers expressed concerns over their more conservative supervisors "finding out" that they spent part of their lunch hour inside this bus. It was great to see that there are people who percieve this risk but accept it to get the chance to see the bus. We had a really great response from all but a few of the dozens of people that came on board.

Steve Turner From Nashville on the issues and their impact on young people.