Bush Legacy Tour

FORT COLLINS, CO-We joined forces with another progressive bus today in Fort Collins.  We had a joint event with SEIU’s Road to Healthcare Bus at the Lee Martinez Park. The SEIU event was centered around McCain’s healthcare plan and how it would be bad for women. The SEIU event was titled McCain Against Moms.  The Bush Legacy bus part of the event focused on healthcare, among other issues. There was no bus envy to speak of and the Bush Legacy and the Road To Healthcare Bus played nicely together. http://www.roadtohealthcare.org/

The Road To Healthcare bus started in April and will continue through September. The purpose of the bus is to share the healthcare stories of the many Americans that have had  problems with a healthcare system that denies care to millions without insurance and make getting care difficult for those who do. We heard from Carol Moos, a local nurse who has experienced the horrors of our healthcare system in her personal and professional life. We also heard from Nathan Gonzalez, a Field Coordinator for Healthcare United about his organization's efforts to advocate for quality health care.

Fort Collins is in Representative Marilyn Musgrave’s  district. Representative Musgrave has voted with this administration 87% of the time. She opposed the new GI Bill, opposed raising the minimum wage for the first time in decade and supported the Social Security privatization plans support by Bush and McCain as well.

The stop was attended by many of the people attending the park for their daily run, tennis, or walk as well as people who had heard about the event ahead of time.  The highlight of the stop was a conversation I was privy to from two women who were discussing the current state of the country on the bus. The y both feel completely disgusted with this administration.  The one woman came to the US from Cuba thirty years ago and is an American citizen. She said never since she immigrated here did she feel like she was not considered an American until this President took office and started taking advantage of people’s fears.  She feels that he has disenfranchised women, Latinos, the middle class, the poor and just about everyone in this country that is not a millionaire. Both women felt that the country is headed in the wrong direction and it will take years to turn around.