Chris Dodd for President

Dodd supporter and legendary musician Paul Simon is leading in the fight to make sure working American families can have affordable health care. Today Simon makes a public call for a veto override on SCHIP in the Huffington Post:

I am asking those of you who supported the veto to reexamine your conscience, to find compassion in your heart for our most vulnerable and sweetest citizens -- our children. I am asking you to change your vote. If you do, I believe it will be one of the proudest days of your life.

Earlier this month Senator Dodd said this following President Bush's veto of children's health care:

"This President's priorities are unconscionable. With the resources it takes to execute just over 3 months of the Iraq War, we could fully fund the expansion of health care for needy children that Bush vetoed. Indeed, today's veto is another reminder that this war is not only adversely affecting our security but also adversely affecting our other top priorities, and it's time for Congress to do what it must do to end it."

There is wide, bipartisan support for SCHIP. It's beyond sad that the President and a small number in the Republican Party are blocking this important program from helping America's needy children.

Lydia Caldeira, a Dodd supporter in Logan, Iowa, put together a slide show of photographs from the Logan and Council Bluffs stops on the bus tour, set them to music, and posted it on YouTube. Thought you'd like to check it out.

Just unearthed from the video archives of the River to River Bus Tour earlier this month. Paul Simon, Grace, Christina, Jackie, and Chris Dodd relax on the tour bus while singing songs - and making up lyrics to new ones.

I wanted to pass along some great photos that were just put on the Dodd flickr feed today by Mario Piscatella, the Dodd campaign's regional field director for northwest Iowa. Chris and Jackie Dodd enjoy Paul Simon's performance in Carroll, Iowa Jackie, Grace, & Christina Dodd The freshly painted Chris Dodd for President office in Sioux City, Iowa.

Here are some pictures from the final event of the River to River Tour of Iowa -- on the banks of the Big Muddy Missouri River in Council Bluffs. Chris Dodd, Jackie Clegg Dodd, Paul Simon and the rest of the Dodd Squad Chris Dodd & Paul Simon