The web-based political action committee MoveOn.org will host a demonstration tomorrow at 4:00pm outside of Senator Kit Bond’s office at the corner of Hanley and Bonhomme.
MoveOn is organizing similar demonstrations outside of several Republican Senators’ offices across the country. The group hopes to encourage the Senators to override President George W. Bush’s veto of a children’s health care bill.
MoveOn says they need 15 Republicans to break from the President to override the veto.
UPDATE: The Washington Post has posted this breakdown of the House vote for the bill. All 197 Republicans that voted did so against the bill. 222 of the 223 Democrats who voted supported the bill. Heath Shuler of North Carolina was the Democrat’s sole dissenter.
According to the breakdown of the Senate vote, Kit Bond was one of the 18 Republicans who voted in favor of the bill.
October 3rd, 2007 at 10:08 pm
More of a ‘rally’ than ‘protest’ isn’t it?
October 4th, 2007 at 7:09 am
What? Bond VOTED for SCHIP! Unless people switch from yes to no, the Senate is the least of their concerns. It will be the House that is their problem.
October 4th, 2007 at 9:16 am
MorOn.org
October 4th, 2007 at 10:40 am
How did Missouri Republican House members vote? Akin? Graves? Hulshof? Emerson? I saw Blunt supporting the President’s veto. I can’t find information on their votes anywhere. That’s where we should put our energy–finding 15 House votes to override the veto.
October 4th, 2007 at 2:27 pm
Emerson is the only one of the Republican House Representatives from Missouri that voted yes.