Being David Bradley

I just added a weblink on the right side of this blog to NCAF's blog. If you want to feel like you've got a front row seat in Washington DC, get inside of David Bradley's head and check it out. (If you're not a fan of stark reality, you might want to hold off until we have some good news at the national level) David Bradley is the lobbyist for community action interests in DC and the Executive Director of the National Community Action Foundation. He's the one making friends for community action in DC and trying to make sense out of what is a pretty complicated mess of a federal budget. Right now, that mess amounts to the fact that we have a majority in Congress that favors greater spending on domestic issues that address poverty and human dignity in the United States and less on a war in Iraq that may be worse for humanity in general. So the House and Senate seem to agree that human service programs generally and Community Action specifically ought to get more funding. They'll pass spending plans that represent this agreement. The White House is opposed to these expenses because it is proposing an additional $200 billion in Iraq. That means the White House will likely veto the domestic spending bill and everyone that thought that was a good idea will have to start from scratch. Not a pretty picture.

CMCA has a board meeting coming up tomorrow night. You can now get the agenda and all related documents online. Just click these words and you'll see what I mean.