Sen. John Edwards and Sen.Ted Kennedy Rally on Thursday

[benny05]

From Jenni, OAC Staffer:

"I wanted to let you know about an important event coming up this Thursday. Senator Edwards and Senator Kennedy will rally for a fair minimum wage at on Thursday in Washington, DC."

Rally 12 noon
Upper Senate Park, Delaware and Constitution Ave. NE, Capitol April 6, 2006 12:00PM Contact: Laura Capps, [phone]


http://blog.oneamericacommittee.com/story/2006/4/4/103941/2331

Teddy has been the only active member of the Senate fighting to raise the federal minimium wage; JRE is trying to raise awareness state by state on his poverty campaign.

Great to see them team up! :kick:

[Klukie]

1. Thanks!

Any coverage planned?

[Mass]

2. Good for them,

and I thanks Kennedy for his active role on this subject,

but the Kennedy's bill has 35 co-sponsors.

http://www.congress.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d109:SN01062:@@@P

S.1062
Title: A bill to amend the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to provide for an increase in the Federal minimum wage.
Sponsor: Sen Kennedy, Edward M. (introduced 5/18/2005) Cosponsors (35)
Related Bills: H.R.2429, H.R.3413
Latest Major Action: 5/19/2005 Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 109.

[karynnj]

4. Nice list of co-sponsors!

Most of them seems to have signed up the day it was introduced. I hope Senators Kennedy and Edwards get a huge crowd!

[AmericanDream]

3. That's great

It's about time....

[Catchawave]

5. Fantastic !

Benny, crosspost this to the DC, VA and MD forums, many DUers live in the 'burbs and work in DC too!!!

:kick: and nom'd. This is a dream team :loveya:

[ProSense]

6. Excellent! n/t

[benny05]

7. Update

It turns out the rally will be at 11:30.

From the OAC blog:

Senator Edwards will join Senator Kennedy for a minimum wage rally in Washington D.C. tomorrow morning. The event will take place at Upper Senate Park on the corner of Constitution Ave. and Delaware Ave. on April 6th at 11:30 AM. So if you're in the D.C. area - or if you're up for a road trip! - please do attend the rally. Your voice will greatly strengthen our call for change.

The petition started by Senators Edwards and Kennedy has already garnered nearly 90,000 citizen co-sponsors for Senator Kennedy's bill to raise the federal minimum wage. The goal is to push that total upwards of 100,000 by the time the rally kicks off. So if you haven't already, please add your signature to this important petition, and be sure to forward that link on to your friends so that they too can sign.


Here's a link to a petition that Senator Kennedy has going:

http://oneamericacommittee.com/action/sign-petitions/minimum-wage/

Hope you DU'ers can join the senators tomorrow!

[VOX]

8. Thanks, benny05, for posting this! n/t

[politicasista]

9. Cool n/t