Posted on 07/18/2009 5:51:35 PM PDT by Pikachu_Dad
THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the Press Secretary _______________________________________________________________________________________ FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE JUNE 30, 2009
President Obama Announces Rural Tour with Cabinet Secretaries and Administration Officials
WASHINGTON D.C. – Today, President Obama announced the launch of his Administration’s Rural Tour. This summer, over the course of the next few weeks and months, top Administration officials, including Cabinet Secretaries, will fan out across the nation to hold a series of discussions on how communities, states, and the federal government can work together to help strengthen rural America.
Vice President Joe Biden and Secretaries Gary Locke and Tom Vilsack will kick-off the Rural Tour on July 1st by visiting Wattsburg, Pennsylvania, to discuss the issue of rural broadband.
"A healthy American economy depends on a prosperous rural America," President Obama said. "Rural America is vast and diverse, and different communities face different challenges and opportunities. That’s why we’re going out to hear directly from the people of rural America about their needs and concerns and what my Administration can do to support them."
Administration officials participating in the Rural Tour will hear about the diverse set of challenges and opportunities facing the small towns and rural communities that are so integral to the fabric of American life. They will share some of the Administration’s ideas about how to nurture strong, robust, and vibrant rural communities. And, when they have heard from the people, they will report back to the President about the state of rural America, and what the Administration can do to strengthen it.
These events, involving multiple Cabinet secretaries, will serve as listening sessions to focus on such issues as broad-based rural health, economic development, infrastructure, education, energy, natural resources, and agriculture. Events will be held in Alaska, Louisiana, Nebraska, New Mexico, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and Wisconsin. And, Secretary Vilsack will hold listening sessions in additional states with local and state elected officials.
The entire tour will provide an opportunity for the Obama Administration to listen to diverse voices throughout rural America, and to highlight its broader vision for growth and prosperity in these regions of the country.
Rural Tour events planned so far include:
JULY 1ST
Vice President Joe Biden and Secretaries Gary Locke and Tom Vilsack will travel to Wattsburg, PA, to discuss rural broadband.
JULY 16TH
Secretaries Ray LaHood and Tom Vilsack will travel to La Crosse, WI, to discuss rural economic development.
JULY 18TH
Secretaries Steven Chu and Tom Vilsack will travel to Ringgold, VA, to discuss green jobs and a new energy economy, with a focus on weatherization and carbon sequestration.
JULY 20TH
Secretaries Kathleen Sebelius, Eric Shinseki, Hilda Solis and Tom Vilsack will travel to St. John’s Parish, LA, to discuss rural healthcare.
AUGUST 12TH
Secretaries Steven Chu, Shaun Donovan, Arne Duncan, Ken Salazar and Tom Vilsack will travel to Bethel, AK, to discuss rural infrastructure, green jobs and a new energy economy, as well as climate change.
AUGUST 16TH
Secretaries Ken Salazar and Tom Vilsack will travel to Zanesville, OH, to discuss green jobs and a new energy economy, with a focus on renewable energies.
AUGUST 17TH
Secretaries Arne Duncan and Tom Vilsack will travel to Hamlet, NC, to discuss rural education.
SEPTEMBER 28TH
Secretaries Ken Salazar and Tom Vilsack will travel to Scottsbluff, NE, to discuss production agriculture.
SEPTEMBER 30TH
Secretaries Shaun Donovan and Tom Vilsack will travel to Las Cruces, NM, to discuss rural infrastructure.
More details on the Rural Tour will be released when they become available.
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Bitter Clingers tour?
"And here's Roy!"
when is he going to realise that the election is over and now he should be running the country not on another money wasting popularity town hall meeting campaign.
A soldier is being held by the Taliban, debt, spending, people wanting to kill us and take this country into a Islamic state etc
etc
etc
etc and this idiot still wants to be in campaign mode..
Will he be taking his freeloaders with him too?
After all maybe the mother in law and cousin haven’t been to certain areas.
There again aren’t those in the rural areas supposed to be backwards, rednecks and racists.
ARF
protest, protest, signs and tea parties...
Tea parties should break out at every one- boo ‘em down.
What, nobody’s coming to Texas?
The scumbag should bring his travelling roadshow to my little town and try selling his snakeoil here.
LOL Brother Love’s traveling salvation show.
Tea parties should break out at every one- boo ‘em down.
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Damned straight!!! wOOt!
With all the issues facing Americans, these idiots are kicking off the discussion with broadband? How out of touch are they?
Can you make the meeting?
If you can’t make THIS meeting, check the list... can you make any of the other meetings?
If you can’t make any of the OTHER meetings, can you help organize people to make the meetings ?!?
Because these towns are so small they will be able to highly control who gets into these events.
I'm not so sure about that - the big-city democrat mafia doesn't work too well in flyover country.
Rahm's motto is: "A Rolling Obama Gathers No Negative Political Moss."
David Copperfield's ingratiating scoundrel fits Rahm to a tee. Uriah Heep was notorious for wielding undue influence, a manipulative bounder who was always planning and plotting, ingratiating himself into the confidence of others. Uriah Heep was obsequious, manipulative, and wormed his way into positions of influence. Uriah was a consummate con man, and not to be trusted.
Translated into the language of the popular culture, Uriah Heeps, like Rahm, position themselves as amenable to American qualities of compassion, but are insincere in these feelings; he uses important issues to advance his hidden agendas and political ambitions.
Like Uriah Heep, power-hungry Rahm feeds on others, and deploys self-serving strategies for his own self-absorbed purposes.
We conservatives are on to this. Christian conservatives are aware of Whom they serve and watch carefully to see if government promises made to them are empty.
We know this-----Rahm evinces an utter contempt for our culture and is obsessed with party politics. Watch him on TV---Rahm coyly speaks the language to appeal to American values, but he is not a true believer, he is a calculating conniver----a latter-day Uriah Heep.
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