 Citizens to Elect Terry Bornemann P.O. Box 911 Bellingham, WA 98227 Phone: 305-0606 Email: terryb903@comcast.net If this button fails to get you to the donate page, please log into paypal, and direct your contribution by specifying the email address terryb903@comcast.net |
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City Councilor to Represent Bellingham in DC July 24, 2007 Bellingham City Councilor Terry Bornemann has been invited to Washington DC to take part with other locally elected officials in the “National Cities for Peace Day.” Bornemann co-sponsored the Bellingham Troops Home! Resolution passed by the city council on October 9, 2006. The resolution calls for an immediate commencement of US troop s from Iraq, reparations to the Iraqi people, and no permanent US military bases in Iraq. The Troops Home! campaign was led by a group of local parents of Iraq Veterans and a Gold Star Mother who lost her son in the war. "With Terry as our council ally, Bellingham became the first city in the state of Washington to pass a Troops Home! resolution," commented Gene Marx, committee member and father of a two-tour Iraq Veteran. “Since then Olympia and Seattle have joined with us, in many respects modeling their resolutions after ours. Terry continues to speak out on this issue, and now his passion will be heard not only in the halls of Congress, but at the portico of the White House." The Troops Home! campaign was ignited by Whatcom Peace & Justice Center, a non-profit organization in Bellingham that has been working since 2002 to end the US wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. “Terry has taken bold leadership in countering cl aims that local officials should have no say in our foreign policy,” shared executive director Marie Marchand. “As a Vietnam combat vet, he knows the cost of war.” On July 31, Bornemann will join representatives of other municipalities to recognize the 255 cities that have successfully passed similar resolutions. He will testify on Capitol Hill about Bellingham’s opposition to the war, highlighting the war’s human and financial costs to the people of Bellingham and Whatcom County. He will march to the White House to deliver municipal level demands for an end to the conflict; and to meet with the Progressive Caucus and Senators Murray and Cantwell to express our concerns. The full agenda can be found on the Cities for Progress website - http://citiesforprogress.org "I am proud to be joining with the representatives of the many cities across our country to echo our citizens’ call to bring our troops safely home,” stated Bornemann. “Instead of continuing to fund the occupation of Iraq, we need to bring our troops home and use the money to fund needed programs such as veteran care, community policing, mental health, low income housing, rebuilding our crumbling infrastructure, and health care for our citizens." Marie Marchand, Executive Director Whatcom Peace & Justice Center 100 E. Maple Street/PO Box 2444 Bellingham, WA 98227 (360) 734-0217 www.whatcompjc.org WhatcomPJC@fidalgo.net |