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[Nina Dayton]

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Subject: 	Important Information
Date: 	Thu, 22 Sep 2005 10:07:23 -0700
From: 	Mary Davis

	
To: 	dayton3 at rcn.com



Nina,
    I think this information is worth getting to those on your "Hair" 
 list. Thank's, Mary Lorrie Davis
                                                                        
 
Received this and am forwarding important info:
 
Hello.
I am sending this out to all in my e-mail contact list. I have lost many 
eddresses that were in my work-related eddress book. So you all - 
complete with dated and otherwise incorrect eddresses - are the only 
contacts I really have and it is consequently up to you to get the word 
out on what I believe is one of the most eggregious missteps to date post-K.
The President has suspended the Davis-Bacon Act for the affected region. 
For my non-political friends and relatives, this is the long-in-place 
provision that requires government contracts to pay the prevailing wage. 
There is $60-some billion dollars down here already and counting. The 
President has suspended the law that would have paid construction 
workers $11 an hour. People want to go back and are willing to work in 
toxic conditions to rebuild and they will not be paid enough to pay 
inflated rent and bury their dead. Right now, even while Rita is 
threatening the weakened levee system (I have been in New Orleans three 
different days), outsiders from Texas and Florida are sweeping streets 
and pulling out toxic debris from offices, hospitals, hotels, etc. 
Military have tetanus, Hep A, Hep B, and diptheria shots. All else have 
tetanus (myself included). In the meantime people are sitting in 
shelters who could be in New Orleans in the place of people being bused 
in from poi! nts beyond the immediate surroundings.
Please contact your Congresspeople. Both Senators and at least one 
Congressperson from your state. Please tell their staff both at home and 
in D.C. that Davis-Bacon must IMMEDIATELY be restored.
Social experimentation is happening in this region at an unprecedented 
level. School vouchers, wholesale lay-offs of public school teachers, 
environmental waivers, bid-letting without any sunshine, relaxation of 
prudent business regulations, suspension of anti-trust regulations, 
organized (so-called Christian) religion-based initiatives, 
privatization of many services are ALL happening and will continue. But 
this is one that decent folk can win.. Please work hard and long and 
loudly to stop the suspension of Davis-Bacon.
Each of you have holiday card lists, rolodexes, and telephone and 
address books. Some of you have contacts or chutzpah. For the love of 
God, please use all these tools and reach out to fellow humans and 
demand the re-institution of Davis-Bacon so loudly, so strongly, so 
insistently and unrelentedly that those who allowed this to happen rue 
the day they ever heard of Davis-Bacon.
Please - before a dime to the Red Cross or directly to those you may 
know in the affected region ... before an hour spent at an evacuation 
center or staffing volunteer phones ... before giving blood or lighting 
a candle .. and before another week goes by - PLEASE help us fight this 
battle.
Please forward this to your e-lists. Please contact your congressional 
delegation. Write your local newspapers. Contact Central Committees. If 
you would send copies of letters or e-mails or word about phone or other 
efforts, it would be appreciated.
I can receive mail at the following:
Linda Santi
c/o Law Office of Jim Boren
830 Main Street
Baton Rouge, LA 70802
Thank you,
Linda Santi
 
 

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