Guest columnist to the Waco Tribune Herald, Jon Singletary,
a professor at Baylor University and a ONE delegate to last year’s G8 summit in
Scotland wrote urging his Representative, Kay Bailey Hutchison to fund the
fight against AIDS and poverty.  Click
here to read the full article.

“The United States
currently spends less than one-half of 1 percent on poverty-focused development
assistance.
The Senate Appropriations Committee currently is making its decisions about
budget proposals.
As a member of this committee, Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison is invested in how our
nation spends its money. She will have a say in how much the Senate would like
to see allocated to foreign operations.
It was clear that Hutchison had deep respect for this rock star with a cause
and a deeper appreciation of the real emergency that is motivating him - the
8,500 people who die each day from AIDS and the 13,500 people who contract the
HIV virus each day.
The real question for her and for all
Texans is how our nation will respond. Sen. Hutchison, after your comments the
other night, I have to ask: Will you put our money where your mouth is?”

This entry was posted on Tuesday, May 16th, 2006 at 12:30 pm and is filed under The ONE Blog. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.