"A truck crier of sorts has made it to tonight’s debate. Thank Josh Tines. Tines, of Orlando, Fla., is driving a truck with a message from theNational Committee to Preserve Social Security & Medicare. He’s been in the Des Moines area since Thursday, driving along key routes of the metro. He even has a schedule. Tonight he’ll remain on the Drake University campus until the ABC News/Des Moines Register debate ends at 10 p.m.; and tomorrow he’ll be in Ankeny and Altoona. Monday’s route is yet to be determined. And the truck is almost certain to return before the Jan. 3 caucuses, he said. “I’ve gotten a lot of good smiles, especially with the elder folks,” Tines said. “A lot of thumbs up. Waving and honking.” The group was started almost 30 years ago by James Roosevelt, a former congressman and son of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, who signed the Social Security Act into law. It bills itself as the nation’s leading advocacy group to protect the programs." -JASON CLAYWORTHhttp://caucuses.desmoinesregister.com/2011/12/10/medicare-truck-attends-debate/ |
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