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DESCRIPTION:Media Advisory			                                                      May 
 16, 2006  Contact:  Shum Preston, 510-273-2276 or Chuck Idelson, 
 510-273-2246.     California Nurses, Democracy Activists Protest 
 Cheney-Doolittle Fundraiser in Sacramento 5/22   Vice President Hosts 
 Corporate Fundraiser for Scandal-Plagued Congressman   as Nurses Push for 
 “Clean Money Elections” to End Corruption  The California Nurses 
 Association, joined by a wide variety of democracy and community activists, 
 will protest against political corruption next Monday outside a Sacramento 
 fundraiser featuring Vice President Cheney and Congressman John Doolittle, 
 and advocate for its upcoming “Clean Money Elections” ballot 
 initiative.   Both Cheney and Doolittle have raised enormous donations from 
 corporate interests and paid their donors back with favors.  This kind of 
 “pay-for-play” politics is exactly the entrenched corruption that Clean 
 Money Elections, also known as public financing of campaigns, is designed 
 to end.  Nurses have been submitting petitions to registrars around the 
 state since May 15, and hope to qualify for the November 2006 ballot.  
 Titled the California Clean Money and Fair Elections Act, the initiative 
 would establish public financing for candidates who reject private 
 fundraising and institute strict limits on campaign contributions to other 
 candidates and election committees. The initiative is modeled after the 
 highly-successful public financing systems now in place in Arizona and 
 Maine, which have led to a wider diversity of candidates, more choices for 
 voters, higher voter turnout, and a reduction in the influence of 
 lobbyists.  What: 		Nurses Protest Corruption at Cheney-Doolittle 
 Fundraiser  When:		Monday, May 22, 10:30 a.m.  Where:	Sacramento Hyatt, 
 1209 L Street  “California voters are tired of the cash register politics 
 that Cheney and Doolittle represent and looking for a way to restore 
 integrity to our government—which Clean Money Elections do,” said CNA 
 President Deborah Burger, RN.    Doolittle has earned a place in both of 
 Congress’ most recent scandals.  The Washington Post reports that he took 
 $118,000 in donations from Brent Wilkes, the defense contractor who is an 
 un-indicted co-conspirator in the case of former Congressman Randy 
 “Duke” Cunningham, and that Doolittle helped steer $37 million worth of 
 government contracts towards Wilkes.  Doolittle also took more than 
 $130,000 from Jack Abramoff and his clients, according to The Sacramento 
 Bee.  Moreover, Doolittle’s wife Julie, by working as his fundraising 
 consultant, has taken 15% of funds raised since 2001—some $215,000 total 
 so far.  Julie Doolittle is the fundraising contact for the Cheney event.  
 \n https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2006/05/20/102293.php
SUMMARY:Nurses Protest Cheney Visit, Political Corruption
LOCATION:Dick Cheney coming to town to host corporate fundraiser for scandal-plagued 
 Congressman John Doolittle
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2006/05/20/102293.php
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