Rep. Miller Urges * to Meet With Gold Star Mom and Ensure Fair Treatment

[paineinthearse]

Rep. Miller is Cindy's home district MC. He was first to endorse Rep. Conyers' letter to * urging him to meet her - see http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x2001260

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http://www.house.gov/georgemiller/press/rel81105.html

Representative Miller Urges President Bush to Meet With
Gold Star Mom and Ensure Her Fair Treatment


Thursday, August 11, 2005
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Representative George Miller (D-CA), an outspoken critic of the President’s handling of the war in Iraq, today joined 37 of his House Democratic colleagues in urging the President to meet with Cindy Sheehan, whose 24-year-old son Casey was killed in Iraq last year.

Sheehan, who lives in Vacaville, California, in Miller’s congressional district, has requested the meeting with President Bush to discuss the Iraq war. While Sheehan awaits a response to her request, she is camping outside the President’s Crawford, Texas ranch, where he is vacationing during the month of August. Sheehan began her vigil on August 6 and has pledged to remain outside the ranch for the duration of the President’s vacation if necessary.

“All Cindy Sheehan wants to know is why her son had to die in Iraq,” said Miller, the chairman of the Democratic Policy Committee. “Given that there were no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, a lot of Americans are asking the same question. As a mother who has lost a child, Cindy Sheehan deserves an answer to that question – a real answer, not the Administration’s boilerplate nonsense.”

Miller was among 38 members of Congress to sign a letter to the President circulated by Representative John Conyers, Jr. (D-NY), the senior Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee. The letter asks the President to agree to Sheehan’s request for a meeting, and to ensure that her rights and the rights of other protesters are respected for as long as they remain outside the ranch.

“President Bush told the country that we were sending young men and women into harm’s way because Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction that posed a grave threat to our national security. That turned out not to be true. The President owes Cindy Sheehan and all Americans an explanation,” said Miller.

Spc. Casey Sheehan was serving in Iraq with the Army’s First Battalion when he was killed in Sadr City on April 4, 2004.

Visit http://www.house.gov/georgemiller/pdfs/pressheehanletter.pdf for a copy of the letter to President Bush.

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Please thank Rep. Miller, and urge him to travel to Crawford to support his constituent.

Congressman George Miller
2205 Rayburn House Office Building
Washington, DC 20515
[phone]
[e-mail]

George Miller's District Office Addresses
1333 Willow Pass Road,
Suite 203
Concord, CA 94520
[phone]

3220 Blume Drive,
Suite 281
Richmond, CA 94806
[phone]

375 G Street, Suite #1
Vallejo, CA 94592
[phone]
Fax: [phone]

[Independent_Liberal]

1. Kick!

[lala_rawraw]

2. Republican Zel Miller? Oh boy, he better not bite his handlers...

Or Bush will send him back down to the end of the line.

[paineinthearse]

3. ROFL!

La la, you're delusional!

This is Representative GEORGE Miller from California.

I though you were over your illness! Better get back to bed!

[lala_rawraw]

4. shite, sorry...48 hours of no sleep to get Robo story out

...so sorry to George and the state of California, promise to take a nap in a bit.

cannot nap though yet, have to play smart person for radio gigs, a far stretch, so wish me luck while I go babble about stuff.

[paineinthearse]

7. ...and an excellent one it was, too

[Karenina]

5. Pump up da volume!

:kick:

[democrat_patriot]

6. "a real answer, not the Administration’s boilerplate nonsense.”

Brilliant.