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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 29, 2004
Page
5
A Cedar Rapids reader questions The Gazette columnists for recycling arguments on Iraq and defends the Kerry Edwards ticket while praising President Bush for backing partial-birth abortion ban. The letter contrasts hospital care for preterm babies with partisan rhetoric and currents in national politics.
J Fred Doornbos in Iowa City argues Kerry and Edwards hold liberal Senate records on taxes abortion war funding and judicial issues. He cites votes against tax cuts death tax repeal and parental notice before abortion while supporting limits on political ads and international war-crimes prosecutions.
In a letter from Garry Klein criticizing President Bush, Iowa’s poverty rate is cited at 258,008 people under the poverty line and 31 percent of them under 18. The note cites declines in construction wages, 73,100 lost jobs, 17.6 percent higher unemployment claims, a 76 percent drop in new housing permits, and a 5 percent fall in quarter sales, urging Kerry/Edwards.
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