Joe feels their pain:
12 Million Kids Are Waiting; 12 Millions Kids Will Be Left Behind on Friday
...Tell President Bush That's Not Fair
President Bush,
When Congress increased the child tax credit earlier this year, it left out the 12 million children most in need.
The Republican Congress has failed to solve this problem---and the checks are about to go into the mail.
I join Joe Lieberman in demanding that you give these American kids the help they deserve---now.
President Bush: tell the Republican leadership in Congress to adopt the bipartisan Senate bill, which passed the Senate 94-2, and include those 12 million children when the checks go out on Friday.
Don't treat low-income families like second-class citizens. Don't leave 12 million children behind.
Please fill out the on-line petition at http://www.joe2004.com/kids, or download a printable version of the petition at http://www.joe2004.com/site/DocServer/Help_the_Children.doc?docID=341&AddInterest=1027
Please forward this e-mail on to your friends and relatives and ask the to help Joe Lieberman stop George Bush.
But can he actually relate to the problems of child-raising in this country?
It's not quite all doom and gloom for the 2000 Democratic vice-presidential candidate. From April to June, Lieberman's campaign raised a respectable $5.1 million, after raising only $3 million in the preceding three months — a total that many campaign watchers thought was disappointing for a national figure with high name recognition.
But Lieberman fell from his party's fourth-highest fundraiser in April to fifth today, surpassed by the surging tide of Dean, who raised about $7.5 million
Also this week, reports emerged that the belt tightening on Lieberman's campaign will affect two of the senator's own children.
Matt and Rebecca Lieberman were being paid combined annual salaries of $100,000 each as fundraisers, and the campaign confirmed to CNN that the siblings will take pay cuts, reportedly 20 percent each.
I beg of you potential democratic contributors, won't you please think of the children?
