Thanks, Senator Brownback
A coalition of Kansas City ONE Campaign and Bread for the World members recently visited with staff in Senator Sam Brownback's Overland Park office. Elise Young, regional coordinator for Bread for the World, Tim Sweeney of the KC ONE Campaign, and several local Bread for the World members met with staff there to thank Senator Brownback for requesting more funding in international aid. By recently signing the DeWine-Feinstein letter advocating for more funds being allocated to international poverty related issues and going on a fact-finding mission to Rwanda last year, Senator Brownback has represented the hearts and minds of many Kansans who sympathize with those less fortunate. We appreciate his staff's openness to meeting with us and assured them that Kansans, the Kansas City ONE Campaign and Bread for the World members would be fully supportive of him in his efforts to bring aid to the poor all over the world.
posted by Anonymous at 3:48 PM
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Maureen et al: This is a perfect example of how the fight against hunger is bipartisan (non-partisan?). Thank you for posting your experiences with the meeting with Sen. Brownback. Many Republicans from the two-state area, former Sen. Bob Dole of Kansas and the late Rep. Bill Emerson of Missouri, were at the forefront of the fight against hunger. On the Democratic side, former Rep. Alan Wheat (who was my congressperson when I lived in KC) worked very closely with former Rep. Tony Hall and Rep. Emerson to create the House Select Committee on Hunger.
Keep up the good work in K.C.!
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