Bush Legacy Tour

MONTGOMERY, ALABAMA-Montgomery, Alabama is certainly known throughout the world as the birthplace of the civil rights movement. It was an honor to bring the bus to a town that honors the legacy of the civil rights movement with monuments, museums, and historical markers. The bus Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on is on display in the town.  It is a shame we were there with a bus to display a far less honerable legacy. 

Our Montgomery  location was at an amazing cross section of history with the State  Capitol, Rosa Parks Museum, MLK's church and the location of Jefferson Davis's swearing in as the President of the Confederacy all within view.  The event was great and we had a lot of local support from the Alabama Democratic Party that helped get the word out. They know first-hand the damage that the Bush and his allies like Alabama Representative Mike Rogers. Rogers represents Alabama’s 3^rd Congressional district and has voted with Bush’s policies 94% of the time.

As with most of our visits to state capitols, we had a number of government employees come through the bus.  We had quite a few people come out of the office buildings nearby and express their concerns over the Bush Administration’s policies. Even in Alabama, which has one of the highest Presidential approval ratings in the nation, we still were hard pressed to find any Bush supporters. Towards the end of the event, however, a conservative bus did show up. The Alabama Republican Party has its own bus that paid us a visit just as we were packing up. They pulled up in front of the capitol about 25 feet away from us. While we offered a museum inside of our bus with interactive features, they only offered a bus with pictures of their local Republican political leaders on the outside. Pretty lame.

There was no dramatic battle of the buses to speak of.  Their spokesperson for their bus was amicable and said they were hoping to get the press to cover the two buses.  This did not happen as all the press had already covered our event. Maybe next time.

They are touting "conservative experience" as a good thing! Wow