Senator Nelson Florida is having some

[katmondoo]

meet ups in Florida to discuss Social Security. He is against the privatization and needs help from people. Go to Moveon.org.for schedules. Tomorrow he will be in Brooksville and my town, Inverness, this is on the west coast central Florida.

[tsuki]

1. Where is the schedule? All I see is press releases about moveon.org.

[CindyDale]

2. Can't find the link at moveon.org

or anything on Nelson's Web site. Where is it exactly?

[Dr.Phool]

3. I know one is in Dade City

At 9:00am tomorrow morning. I'll have to dig through e-mail for location, but I think it's at the Pasco County Courthouse.

[katmondoo]

4. Schedule for Senator Nelson meet up

Thursday Feb, 24
9:00 AM Pasco County Town Hall
Pasco Historic Courthouse
11:00 AM Hernando County Town Hall
Brooksville City Hall, Brooksville
1:00 PM Citrus County Town Hall
New Citrus County Courthouse Inverness
3:00PM Sumpter County Town Hall
Sumpter County Historic Courthouse , Bushnell

Monday, Feb 28
9:00 AM Taylor County Town Hall

Taylor County Courthouse Perry
11:00 AM Madison County Town Hall
North Florida Community College, Lakside Dining Room, Turner Drive, Madison
1:00 PM Suwannee County Town Hall
Live Oak City Hall, Live Oak
2:45 Columbia County Town Hall
The Blanche Hotel, 212 North Marion Ave, Lake City

[Ivote]

5. Posting In Florida Forum

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[madfloridian]

6. Here is the complete summary from MoveOn.

Dear MoveOn member,

Nearly 500,000 MoveOn members like you have signed our petition opposing Social Security privatization and benefit cuts. Democratic Senators are united in opposing the plan. Florida Senator Bill Nelson is a leading defender of Social Security. Now, Republicans are targeting him because of his stalwart support for Social Security--and his opposition to the Republican effort to cut benefits and use trillions of dollars of new debt to finance privatization.

Sen. Nelson is holding town hall meetings across Florida this week to hear from constituents. Local news reporters will attend these meetings to see how they go -- you can help prove that there's a large constituency for opposing Social Security privatization by showing up and expressing support for Sen. Nelson's stand on the issue.

Here is a list of upcoming meetings in Florida. Please consider attending one near you.

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 24TH.
9:00 AM Pasco County Town Hall
Location: Pasco Historic Courthouse, 37918 Meridan, Dade City, 33525

11:00 AM Hernando County Town Hall
Location: Brooksville City Hall, 201 Howell Ave., Brooksville, 34601

1:00 PM Citrus County Town Hall
Location: New Citrus County Courthouse, 110 N. Apopka, Inverness, 34450.

3:00 PM Sumter County Town Hall
Location: Sumter County Historic Courthouse, 209 N. Florida Street, Bushnell, 33513
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 28TH.
9:00 AM Taylor County Town Hall
Location: Taylor County Courthouse, 108 W. Jefferson, Perry 32347

11:00 AM Madison County Town Hall
Location: North Florida Community College, LakeSide Dining Room, 1000 Turner Drive, Madison 32340

1:00 PM Suwannee County Town Hall
Location: Live Oak City Hall, 101 S. E. White Street, Live Oak 32064

2:45 PM Columbia County Town Hall
Location: The Blanche Hotel, 212 North Marion Avenue, Lake City 32055
Attending a town hall meeting is easy. You can speak from the heart about why Social Security is so important to your family or you can use the basic talking points we've provided below.

We've come a long way since Bush announced his plan for private accounts. Now let's make sure that Senator Nelson and the other members of Congress who are prepared to fight for Social Security have the support they need to stop Bush's privatization plan in its tracks.

Thanks for all you do.

Sincerely,

--Tom Matzzie, MoveOn.org
Wednesday, February 23rd, 2005

P.S. If you like, here are some talking points on the Republican Social Security plan:

George Bush's plan would make massive cuts in Social Security benefits for future retirees in order to pay for private accounts. Privatization diverts Social Security taxes used to pay current benefits into private accounts. Without that money, Social Security benefits will inevitably be cut -- up to 46 percent for future retirees.

Privatization means trillions of dollars of new national debt. Because current Social Security taxes are used to pay for private accounts taking that money out means huge deficits -- as high as $15 trillion over the next 40 years.

The Republican plan would turn a guaranteed benefit into a guaranteed gamble. The stock market is risky and can't be predicted -- that could means millions of people don't have the money they need when they need it.

Social Security is not going bankrupt, contrary to the president's claims. That is a deception perpetrated in order to create the urgency for radical changes. Under conservative forecasts, the long-term challenges in Social Security do not manifest themselves until 2042. Even then Social Security has 70 percent of needed funds.
If you can only say one thing, say: Republicans want to cut benefits and privatize Social Security which would gut a sound program and burden future generations with trillions in debt."