Reply #4: Fake per usual....like fake workers March 9, 2001 [View All]

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http://www.commondreams.org/headlines01/0309-03.htm

Nichols's trade association, which pushed for yesterday's passage of President Bush's proposal to reduce income tax rates, circulated a memo among business groups this week urging lobbyists to show up in full force at the photo opportunity.


House Majority Whip Tom DeLay, R-Texas, holds a dollar bill and a nickel at a lobbyist rally on Capitol Hill Thursday, March 8, 2001, prior to expected house approval of a Republican tax cut plan. DeLay said that for every dollar of budget surplus over the next 10 years, only five cents will be used to pay for the tax cut. (AP Photo/Dennis Cook)

And it urged them to be "dressed down" so that "a sea of hard hats" could flank Speaker J. Dennis Hastert (R-Ill.) and other House GOP leaders to help buttress Republican arguments that the plan helps blue-collar Americans.