Action Archive

Unleash the Medicare Truth Squad

October 2004

Hundreds of Campaign for America’s Future supporters raised over $20,000 to enable our Senior Truth Squad to expose the outrages of the Bush Medicare law.  We were able to purchase six ads in the front sections of EACH of 20 Iowa and Wisconsin newspapers. The combined readership of these papers was a whopping 1.8 million+, and – for three straight days! – those readers got the Truth Squads' message twice a day. We literally blanketed the crucial battleground states of Iowa and Wisconsin for three days running!


Meet the Senior Truth Squad


Get their Message Out to 2 Million Battleground State Voters!


These Wisconsin and Iowa seniors are mad about the Bush Medicare law. Like so many other seniors in America, they are learning more about the Bush deal that delivers billions to drug companies and HMOs while leaving seniors and taxpayers with the bill.

Click any image below to see what Florence, Ed, Mar and the rest of the Truth Squad has to say, and please contribute to help these real grassroots activists make their messages heard and inspire millions to action in these crucial days.

Jack Smith

Jack Smith
40+ yrs Iowa resident

Mar Smith

Mar Smith
40+ yrs Iowa resident

Janice Wright

Janice Wright
40+ yrs Iowa resident

Edward Rethman

Edward Rethman
Lifetime Iowa resident

Joe Zagnoli

Joe Zagnoli
60+ yrs Iowa resident

Lilith Thomas

Lilith Thomas
Lifetime Iowa resident

Dave Slautterback

Dave Slautterback
45 yrs Wisconsin resident

Florence Lea
Lifetime Wisconsin resident

Tom Brown

Tom Brown
8 yr Wisconsin resident

Katie Wenban

Katie Wenban
58 yr Wisconsin resident

Lee Brown

Lee Brown
8 yr Wisconsin resident

Welcome Fawcett

Welcome Fawcett
Wisconsin grandmother


For more information about the Bush Medicare Deal in Wisconsin, Iowa, and other states, click here.

The Campaign for America's Future has teamed up with Iowa Citizen Action and Wisconsin Citizen Action to unleash the Senior Truth Squads. Learn more about their powerful grassroots movements at:

www.iowacan.org/: Iowa Citizen Action
www.wi-citizenaction.org: Wisconsin Citizen Action


Thanks Again From The Truth Squad!


Thank you again for contributing to get the Senior Truth Squad out in front of 1.9 million+ Iowans and Wisconsinites last week for three straight days! Below are the papers where the Truth Squad ads were run, and the readership #s for each paper. Thank you again!

Click to see a list of papers where the ads appeared



Newspaper Daily Readership
IOWA
Cedar Rapids Gazette 134,506
Davenport Quad City Times 104,652
Des Moines Register 330,156
Dubuque Telegraph Herald 60,290
Iowa City Press Citizen 36,552
Muscatine Journal 15,320
Ottumwa Courier 31,000
Waterloo Courier 105,582
WISCONSIN
Baraboo News Republic 8,180
Beaver Dam 20,156
Chippewa Falls 13,608
Eau Claire Leader-Telegram 55,000
Green Bay Press-Gazette 113,716
La Crosse Tribune 63,000
Madison Wisconsin State Journal 217,384
Milwaukee Journal 488,576
Portage Register 10,044
Racine Journal 57,396
Shawano 13,102
Superior/Ashland Newspapers 30,958