PigMobile arrives in Muscatine County

Here's an e-mail message I sent to some friends and neighbors on Wednesday evening, September 27:


Friends,

They arrived this afternoon, and already people are stopping and asking, "What's the deal with the Pigs?"

"That's our federal budget," I say. "Might as well have some fun with it."

If you haven't seen "the piggies" yet, you probably will soon. Described as a "rolling work of art from the mind of Ben Cohen" (of Ben & Jerry's ice cream), you can see me posing with 'em at http://www.truemajority.org/pigmobileblog/?p=198#more-198.

Learn what it's all about at http://www.sensibleiowans.org/fun/ and related pages.*

We've got the PigMobile in Muscatine County until October 5. "We" are a loose group of volunteers; we applied to host the Pigs for a few days, and got accepted. We picked 'em up at Iowa City, and they'll go to Davenport next.

Got an idea for showing 'em off? Wanna help? Let me know.

Dan


* "Iowans For Sensible Priorities is a non-profit, non-partisan 501(c)3 organization in Iowa dedicated to educating the public about the inequities of our current federal budget. We aim to redirect 15% of the Pentagon’s discretionary budget away from obsolete Cold War weapons towards education, healthcare, job training, alternative energy development, world hunger, deficit reduction. This 15% cut, or $60 billion dollars, on obsolete weapons systems and the further proliferation of nuclear weapons does not include the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and in no way impacts homeland security or our defense. We have the money; let’s spend it on sensible priorities!"