Campaign Literature—1988 General Election


                         California Democratic Party


                                            




Brochure - 8 1/2" x 11".


"Mike Dukakis' foreparents came on immigrant ships. My foreparents came on slave ships. But whatever the original ships, we're in the same boat now."
—Rev. Jesse Jackson


"10 reasons why we must work for, fight for, vote for Mike Dukakis"
—Reverend Jesse Jackson

1. HIS VIEW OF GOVERNMENT Gov. Dukakis sees government as a public service acting to protect ordinary people. Mr. Bush sees government as an instrument to protect corporations, the rich, and established private interests.

2. HIS VIEW OF SECURITY Gov. Dukakis supports a strong military. But to truly be secured, our nation must also have strong values, a strong economy, and strong health and education systems. Mr. Bush would waste more of our scarce resources on weapons that we do not need and must never use, while we become less secure and more dependent on foreing energy, foreign capital.

3. HIS COMMITMENT TO JUSTICE Gov. Dukakis will build bridges between people, where the Reagan-Bush administration has driven wedges between them, dividing us by race, sex, religion and class. Gov. Dukakis supports civil rights, including affirmative action in employment and education, and enforcement of economic set-asides. Mr. Bush opposed the Civil Rights Restoration Act and said nothing through seven years of an administration with the worst civil rights record in memory.

4. HIS SUPPORT FOR WORKERS Gov. Dukakis supports increasing the minimum wage. He will end the merger mania that purges workers and submerges our economy. He favors a National Labor Relations Board that is a mediation and not a strike-breaking board. Gov. Dukakis will enforce workplace health and safety laws. Mr. Bush exults the record of an administration that set out to punish working people, causing a scandalous increase in the number of working people in poverty.

5. HIS SUPPORT FOR WOMEN Gov. Dukakis understands that too many of the nation's children live in a house where there is no man. He supports pay equity and comparable worth for women. He supports the goals of the ABC Child Care Bill and the Equal Rights Amendment. Mr. Bush opposes the ERA. He has said nothing about comparable worth for women. Only after seven years of inaction and polls showing women don't support him did Bush finally make a rhetorical commitment to child care.

6. HIS COMMITMENT TO A REAL WAR ON DRUGS Gov. Dukakis will wage a comprehensive war on drugs—from the countries where the drugs are grown to the streets where they are sold to the suites where the money is laundered. Mr. Bush was head of the drug interdiction task force and did nothing. He was head of the CIA while Noriega was on the payroll and said nothing. His current pose to get tough on drug dealers is similarly worth nothing.

7. HIS PLEDGE TO EDUCATION Gov. Dukakis has program to fund college education for all students. He will increase our investment in education and equalize spending on public education. He understands that our nation will thrive only if our children can learn. Mr. Bush said nothing while the administration cut scholarships and limited loans even as a college education grew more expensive.

8. HIS COMMITMENT TO PEACE IN CENTRAL AMERICA Gov. Dukakis opposes aid to the contras in Nicaragua and supports a negotiated regional plan for peace in Central America. He understands that our future lies in increased trade, investment and growth in Latin America. Mr. Bush endorses a failed policy of war and disruption in Central America and to this day has not owned up to his knowledge of the trade of drugs for guns with the contras, or his support for sending bibles, cakes and guns to the Ayatollah in Iran.

9. HIS COMMITMENT TO JUSTICE IN SOUTH AFRICA Gov. Dukakis agrees thawt South Africqa is a terrorist state. He is fully committed to comprehensive sanctions against South Africa. If he is elected, thd full moral, political and economic strength of the U.S. will stand behind the struggle for freedom of Nelson Mandela. Mr. Bush defends the administration's amoral embrace of apartheid in South Africa.

10. HIS COMMITMENT TO EMPOWERMENT Gov. Dukakis understands that the people must be empowered for justice to prevail. He supports on-site, same day, universal voter registration. He supports DC statehood. For Mr. Bush empowerment is a threat not a promise.



"The hands that work for less than they deserve, the hands that work for minimum wage, now can pick the President. Every vote counts. Every one of us must vote November 8."
—Rev. Jesse Jackson

Yes, I want to help the Democrats win opportunities for every citizen.

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CALIFORNIA CAMPAIGN '88
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