Now that’s more like it. Edmund Andrews in the Times today …
Introduced as a “single mom” from Iowa, Sandra Jaques was cool and confident as she praised President Bush’s plan to partly replace Social Security with private savings accounts.
“I have a daughter at home. Her name is Wynter,” said Ms. Jaques, sitting a few feet from President Bush at the White House economic conference on Thursday. “I want to make sure that she has Social Security when she retires as well.”
Mr. Bush chimed in a moment later. “One of my visions of personal savings accounts is that Sandy will be able to pass her account on to Wynter as part of Wynter’s capacity to retire as well.”
The exchange was an example of how Mr. Bush promotes his agenda with testimonials from “regular folks,” in the words of Joshua B. Bolten, the White House budget director, who introduced Ms. Jaques.
But Ms. Jaques is not any random single mother. She is the Iowa state director of a conservative advocacy group, FreedomWorks, whose founders are Jack F. Kemp, the former vice-presidential nominee, and Dick Armey, the former House Republican leader.
Ms. Jaques also spent much of the past two years as a spokeswoman in Iowa for a group called For Our Grandchildren, which is mounting a nationwide campaign for private savings accounts.
‘turf galore! <$NoAd$> Read the whole piece.
