Progress for America bush ad of the year

It's also the most expensive TV ad campaign of the presidential election. The commercial, unveiled by the Progress for America Voter Fund, ran on cable stations and in nine states - Ohio, Florida, Pennsylvania, Iowa, New Mexico, Nevada, Minnesota, Wisconsin and Missouri - at a cost of $14.2 million. Among the group's major contributors are Reds owner Carl H. Lindner and Cintas chairman Richard T. Farmer.

It centers on Ashley, whose mother, Wendy Faulkner, was killed in the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001. The ad details the events of May 6, when Ashley, her father, Lynn Faulkner, and neighbor Linda Prince waited eagerly to shake the president's hand during a campaign stop at the Golden Lamb Inn in Lebanon.

As the president approached, Prince said to him, "Mr. President, this young lady lost her mother in the World Trade Center."

Bush stopped in his tracks. "The smile on his face went away, and the festive mood changed instantly," Prince said.

"You could see those words hit him so hard - so suddenly."

The president drew the girl to his chest and held her. "Ashley's Story" FULL STREAMING VIDEO

Progress for America Voter Fund ("PFA-VF") is a conservative issue advocacy organization PO Box 57167Washington, DC 20037 Progress for America, Inc. (PFA), organization dedicated to promoting the conservative issue agenda and rebutting liberal , announced the establishment of a 527 political committee - Progress for America Voter Fund (PFA Voter Fund). Progress for America, Inc, a 501(c)(4) organization, was formed in 2001. The Progress for America Voter Fund was established May 27, 2004.

Follow the money trail with silent partners "In determining a committee's major donors and recipients, the Center grouped individual contributors together with the organizations they reported as employers. Where no employer and occupation information was provided, or where an individual reported being self-employed, the Center identified donors through their affiliations with organizations. For example, a donor listed as "XYZ Company" could include contributions directly from the company and from individuals who list XYZ as an employer, along with those individuals' spouses. The figures on this page represent contributions and expenditures since disclosure began in August 2000, or since the establishment of the particular 527 committee, if later than August 2000." Progress For America Voter Fund

NOAA AND THE INDIAN OCEAN TSUNAMI

The U.S. has demonstrated the effectiveness of its warning system within the Pacific region. It has also demonstrated that the warning system can provide initial earthquake information to other nations and is most willing to share that information with all concerned. With national dissemination and water level networks in place, NOAA’s information can be used to mitigate future disasters.

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It is also important to recognize that tsunamis can come ashore within minutes of nearby earthquakes. In those instances, people must know what to do in the event of a "felt" earthquake in low lying coastal areas.

The need for a tsunami warning program outside the Pacific region has been raised since 1985 with little result. It now appears that there is new interest in this issue within the international ICG/ITSU community. The U.S. strongly supports such an effort.

Furthermore, the development of the Global Earth Observing System of Systems (GEOSS) led by the United States, Japan, South Africa and the European Commission—with 53 nations currently participating at the ministerial level—should help fill the sensor gap for other regions of the world. Two key focus areas of the GEOSS initiative are addressing "reducing loss of life and property due to disasters" and "monitoring our oceans."

NOAA is dedicated to enhancing economic security and national safety through the prediction and research of weather and climate-related events and providing environmental stewardship of the nation’s coastal and marine resources. NOAA is part of the U.S. Department of Commerce.

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