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New Hampshire Leaders Fight Bush Privatization Plan; President Bush's Visit to Sell His Social Security Plan Spurs Major Protest

2/15/2005 4:48:00 PM


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To: Assignment Desk, Daybook Editor

Contact: Toby Chaudhuri or Andrea Miller, 202-955-5665, both of the Campaign for America's Future; Web: http://www.ourfuture.org

News Advisory:

New Hampshire residents will join local leaders Wednesday to hold a series of events on Social Security around President Bush's visit to the state. A University of New Hampshire poll released this week shows that a majority of New Hampshire adults believe that privatizing Social Security and cutting guaranteed benefits is a bad idea.

The Campaign for America's Future is promoting the efforts of more than 20 organizations opposing President Bush's privatization plan, including the N.H. Citizens Alliance; AFL- CIO; the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees; USAction and others. The groups unleashed a broad assault on the president's privatization plan-including daily news conferences, grassroots mobilization and advertisements-- with local leaders and residents in all the cities the president has visited since his State of the Union address.

WEDNESDAY, FEB. 16

PORTSMOUTH, N.H.

9 a.m. -- Dozens of New Hampshire residents rally against President Bush's plan to make Social Security's guaranteed benefit a guaranteed gamble. Corner of Rochester and New Hampshire Avenues at the Pease International Tradeport

CONCORD, N.H.

2 p.m. -- New Hampshire leaders and experts hold a conference call with reporters to make statements and release new data on the local impact of President Bush's plan to privatize Social Security.

DIAL-IN: 866-591-7800, code 977685 #

PARTICIPANTS: Kathy Sullivan, N.H. Democratic Party Chair

Tom Deary, N.H. coordinator, Alliance for Retired Americans

Jim Schulz, Professor of Economics of Aging (ret.)

http://www.usnewswire.com/