STRATEGY TO OPPOSE REPUBLICANS FOR THEIR FAILURE TO INVEST IN AMERICA

WHEREAS: The recent devastation of New Orleans was not only predicable but was predicted by many experts who warned repeatedly that the levees protecting the city would not withstand a category 4 or larger hurricane that was certain to strike the city at some point; and

WHEREAS: Despite these warnings the Bush administration had drastically cut funding for flood control projects in southern Louisiana; and

WHEREAS: Such funding cuts are merely symptomatic of the Republican ideology of promoting tax reduction with the consequent failure to invest not only in infrastructure – flood control in Louisiana being only the most egregious example – but in education, health care, conservation, environment, renewable energy, and many other areas. That is, Republicans are ideologically committed to failure to invest in America.

THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED: That the California Democratic Party seizes upon the example of the inundation of New Orleans to call on all Democratic Party organizations – local, state, and national – to make the Republican failure to invest in America the key component of a grand electoral strategy to remove Republicans from all levels of government.

Approved by SCCDCC Executive Board, September 15, 2005