Last Stop for Bush

(Metropolitan Washington Council, AFL-CIO)
Forty-two states and 150 stops later, Julie Blust was right back where she started. Blust is one of the 3-member team who’s been staffing the Bush Legacy Bus as it toured the country over the last five months, starting out at the AFL-CIO in June and ending up in front of the NoVA Labor office on Election Day. The colorful bus – which is fueled by biodiesel -- is Americans United for Change’s “museum on wheels dedicated to chronicling the disastrous legacy of President Bush and the conservative policies he and his allies have pursued,” and features interactive multimedia exhibits presenting facts on Bush’s impact on health care, the economy, workers’ rights, education, the environment and the war in Iraq. “The response has been overwhelmingly positive,” Blust told Union City this morning. “Honestly, I was a little worried about potential negative reactions at first, but the focus is on the issues American are most concerned about, and we’ve had people in here who say they voted for Bush twice and they’re just fed up with what’s going on.”
- report/photo by Chris Garlock