April 8th
PRESS RELEASE WEDNESDAY Or Writing Stuff Myself is Hard Day
ITEM: These are all interesting things going on about town and throughout the country. First up is State Rep. Jake Wheatley who asks the question: will any African Americans actually benefit from the stimulus package? Oh to see one black construction worker. What a crazy wild eyed dream. I met Jake once and while I was intimidated by his bouncer's body he didn't strike me as being a big policy guy. But he's speaking twice on Thursday.
Thursday: Meetings on stimulus and minority- and women-owned businesses
As vice chairman of the Pennsylvania Legislative Black Caucus, I am sponsoring a public meeting this week in Pittsburgh to help women- and minority-owned businesses and workers receive a fair share of federal stimulus money.
The meeting will be held at 11 a.m. Thursday on the second floor of the Foerster Student Services Center, Community College of Allegheny County, 839 Ridge Ave. on the North Side. This meeting is one of seven that the PLBC and state agencies will hold across the state.
I will also speak at another free event on Thursday about the need for diversity in the economic benefits of the stimulus. The Community Empowerment Association is holding a forum from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Thursday at Schenley High School (formerly Reizenstein School), 129 Denniston Ave. in East Liberty.
These forums are in addition to an April 17 event where I will discuss the stimulus and inclusiveness with members and guests of the African American Chamber of Commerce of Western Pennsylvania.
You may also be interested in a new state Web site created to show where Pennsylvania's share of the stimulus money is going: www.recovery.pa.gov.
If you have a question about the stimulus or any state-related matter, please contact my office at
412-471-7760
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Next up is Planned Parenthood. I think they'll be successful with this one:
LAST CHANCE to overturn Bush rule
Dear PHILIP,
This is finally it. After months of raising awareness and a public outcry, working with congressional leaders, even filing a lawsuit — we are on the verge of overturning the disastrous Bush administration rule limiting the rights of patients to receive complete health care information.
This is your last chance to voice your support for President Obama's action to reverse this dangerous policy. Click here to add your statement of support now.
Just before leaving office, the Bush administration released a rule that limits the rights of patients to receive complete and accurate reproductive health information and services. The rule allows doctors, nurses, and other medical personnel to simply withhold information about, for example, birth control and HIV testing and treatment. It also allows health care workers to deny any basic health care service based on their personal biases.
In order to overturn the Bush administration rule, President Obama had to write a new rule that must undergo a period of public review. The most important part of the review process is generating public support, and tens of thousands of Planned Parenthood supporters have already joined the effort. Will you take a moment right now and add your name to the list of people who support the new rule?
When more and more families are uninsured and have difficulty accessing health care at all, and when at least one in four teenage girls has a sexually transmitted infection, implementing a rule that limits access to health services is unconscionable. This is our last chance to speak up for patients' rights. Take action now.
Thank you, thank you, for your help today and during the next few weeks — until hopefully this rule is overturned for good.
And this is related and will be a tougher nut to crack but it relates to silly abstinence programs that science and reason and most importantly evidence tells us don't work. From, well I'm not entirely sure. I think its called Democrats.com. (Link here.) They bill themselves as the aggressive progressives.
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