DFL EVENT ALERT: Sunday Welcome Home for Sen. Becky Lourey

08/20/2005

Welcome Home for Senator Becky Lourey at State Capitol Sunday

Dear Democrat,

Please join us on the steps of the Minnesota State Capitol this Sunday at 2:00 pm to welcome home Senator Becky Lourey.

Sen. Lourey traveled to Crawford, Texas this week to stand in solidarity with Cindy Sheehan outside President Bush’s ranch. Sheehan has been camped outside the ranch for two weeks requesting a face-to-face conversation with Bush about the ongoing war in Iraq. Sen. Lourey’s son Matt was killed in combat in Iraq when the helicopter he was piloting was shot down earlier this summer. Sheehan’s son Casey was killed in 2004.  Becky was accompanied by retired FBI agent Coleen Rowley, who will attend the Sunday event.

Bush has avoided Sheehan and refuses to even discuss plans for an Iraq exit strategy or provide real answers about Iraq—with anyone. Bush stubbornly insists on continuing the misguided and mismanaged mess in Iraq without an open and honest discussion with the American people. 

Minnesotans are proud of the courage and the compassion of Senator Lourey for fulfilling her duty as a citizen to ask the question that our soldiers cannot.

Join us Sunday at 2:00pm on the Capitol steps to support Becky and to join in the call for real answers about the Iraq war.

Thank you,

Donna Cassutt
Minnesota DFL Party Associate Chair