Uniformed Services Disabled Retirees

[HARDCORE]

Rick, in another message you said --

There will be another news conference at the Veterans Memorial -2115 Park Avenue, San Diego, California at 11 AM on 21 February, 2006 with Senator Barbara Boxer concerning HR 2369/S 2157 "Honor Our Fallen Prisoners of War Act."

Brenda & Rick
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I thought I would forward to you a message that I just released recapping the USDR activities for January. Our subscribers generated 1830 messages on this issue in addition to those generated earlier.

I am going to take a proactive stance here: Please feel free to invite your readership to visit "http://capwiz.com/usdr/" where they can (1) send the below indicated message which supports the PH for deceased POW and (2) they can subscribe to our E-Action list. (yes, I am trying to build the subscriber list, but you are trying to build support for HR 2369/S 2157, so we have a trade off) Regardless of whether they subscribe they can still take advantage of sending the prepositioned message.

Good luck with your news conference.

Charlie
USDR (Uniformed Services Disabled Retirees)

USDR January Legislative Activity

Many thanks for helping make the USDR Action Alerts effort a success. I thought I would share some of our participation numbers with you --

As of the end of January we have 2434 active subscribers. We started in June 2005 with 850 subscribers. Our past four months participation shows that we let our voices be heard with our elected officials --

Messages Activists

Jan 2006 28837 1412
Dec 2005 15267 810
Nov 2005 19759 925
Oct 2005 8037 934

The following show our new alerts for January with 25,815 messages being generated by these eight alerts! The remaining 3000 messages are from hits on previous alerts that are still active --

Messages Activists

Military Retiree TRICARE Fee Increases 5846 781
2007 NDAA Let's Get the Ball Rolling 5648 412
HR 1366 CRSC Inclusion in the 2007 NDAA 2855 245
2007 MEDICARE/TRICARE Issues 2779 333
2007 NDAA SBP/DIC Issues 2760 317
Increased Health Care Costs for Mil Ret 2361 297
2007 NDAA CRSC/CRDP Issues 2237 266
2007 NDAA Purple Heart for POW Issues 1830 205

Experience is that approximately 85% of our messages go to Congress, 10% go to the Executive (POTUS, VP, Secretaries of Defense and Veterans Affairs) and 5% go to the local media.

Many thanks for your participation.

Charlie Revie
USDR Legislative Affairs