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Thursday, February 13, 2003
Geezers for Estrada
Watch out obstructionist Democrats, 60 Plus has got Miguel Estrada's parte posteriora.
Confirm Estrada Now
Washington, DC – Way back on May 9 of 2001, some 643 days ago, President Bush nominated Miguel A. Estrada to fill a vacancy on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia. The 60 Plus Association said then – and says now – “Bravo!”
Mr. Estrada would be the first Hispanic in history to sit on the District’s Court of Appeals, viewed by many as the most important and prestigious Court of Appeals in the land. His nomination would be a huge event for the Hispanic community, an ever-expanding segment of the United States. He has worked at the Justice Department under both Republicans and Democrats and has shown a commitment to upholding the integrity of the law. He has argued 15 cases before the Supreme Court – and all before reaching the age of 40! He deserves the “well qualified” rating bestowed upon him by the American Bar Association, their highest possible evaluation. Attorneys from both parties who know Mr. Estrada are convinced he’ll be a fair and honest judge, following law rather than personal opinion.
So who is 60 Plus? Glad you asked:
The 60 Plus Association is a non-partisan seniors advocacy group with a free enterprise, less government, less taxes approach to seniors issues. 60 Plus has set ending the federal estate tax and saving Social Security for the young as its top priorities. 60 Plus is often viewed as the conservative alternative to the American Association of Retired Persons (AARP).
Apparently they have set their sights on ending the "death tax" a modest goal considering their earlier efforts to end "death", which proved to be unrealistic. But old James L. Martin, President of 60 Plus sure has a wild hair up his slack withered ass about AARP:
The American Association of Retired Persons (or AARP) is the eight hundred pound gorilla of associations supposedly representing senior citizens.
In actuality, the organization is a huge fraud on seniors, profiting by commission from a variety of money making schemes, receiving millions of taxpayer dollars, and promoting programs of big government and high taxes which hurt, not help, seniors. Considering the record of the AARP, we like to call them the AARP--the Association Against Retired Persons.
You see there are the 33 million members of AARP and 60 Plus appears to have, well, they claim 500,000 "citizen lobbyists". But it looks more like a cash cow for old man Martin. More about Jim:
Jim served for six years as Chief of Staff to Congressman, then Senator, the late Edward J. Gurney (R-FL), 1964-69. He has helped to organize and direct several advocacy groups including the National Conservative Political Action Committee (NCPAC) and the Public Service Research Council (PSRC) (Americans Against Union Control of Government), which opposes public sector compulsory unionism as a threat to elected representation.
Here's Jim with Roach Scourge Tom DeLay.
...and here's Jim with President Senior Friendly If They Are Rich. Please note that, then 22 year old George Bush, nicknamed Martin "Buddha" back in the day when Bush was still only smoking dope and hadn't moved on to harder snortable reality enhancers...if you know what I mean.
Buddha?
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