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MISSING: Senators Smith and Wyden
May 05th 11:26:15 AM
I went to Portland State University yesterday, one of Oregon's largest public schools. Its located in downtown Portland, so students, tourists, shoppers, businessmen and women are ALL frequent passersby...which is PERFECT since we're trying to get the word out on our missing Senators!
The posters cite our Missing Senators...missing in terms of the issue of Social Security reform and specifically, the recent vote on March 16th to stop the raid. they seem to be REALLY eye-catching...several students stopped while i was putting them up. I must say, it made me nervous (I went to a speaking event recently on their campus and yes...students who disagreed w/ the speaker were swearing at him, rudely interrupting and basically causing a huge scene in a very immature way) SO I was like, oh no- here goes.
But no one did that! In fact, everyone reacted by saying, "WOW! I didn't know they did that!" referring to BOTH Senator Smith and Senator Wyden voting to CONTINUE the raid on the Social Security Trust fund.
One lady stopped in her tracks and had this horrified look on her face. She dramatically said- "NO WAY. YOU ARE KIDDING ME. SENATOR SMITH IS MISSING? NO NO, THERE'S NO WAY!" So i said- "Well- uhh...like the bottom of this flyer says, he's missing on the ISSUE of Social Security reform" So then she was like, "OHHHHH. i was thinking someone TOOK him"
Funny stuff. I'm pumped to plaster ALL the schools in Oregon...who knows what other kind of reactions I'll get to Senator Smith and Senator Wyden's missing posters, but hopefully they will be like the majority I got yesterday- people agreeing that its MESSED UP that our senators are turning their backs on our generation!
Posted by Evan Dent
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