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Campbell said the tour was not advocating any particular policy regarding unregulated campaign contributions. Rather, it focused on voter registration drives particularly in low-income neighborhoods, encouraging voters to cast their ballots in the November election. One of the campaign themes against outside money was: "Vote: Strong voter turnout overpowers the influence of big money in politics. Dollars can't vote, you can." Campbell was interviewed during the stop in Des Moines, Iowa, where she clarified that the 2014 bus tour centers on the nuns' belief that "the growth and influence of outside money in our political system threatens to undermine the nation's democratic foundations by silencing the voices of everyday Americans." She added that this is a non-partisan issue. "This trip isn't about progressive or liberal. It's about 100 percent voting. It's a middle of the road issue," Campbell said.
65:. Unlike U.S. bishops at that time, the Nuns on the Bus group was supportive of national health care legislation known as Obamacare. Simone Campbell was one of the American nuns targeted by then Pope Benedict XVI in 2012 through his controversial investigation of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious. The Vatican investigators accused the American nuns of insufficient adherence to traditional doctrines. However, Pope Francis ended the investigation in 2015 and reconciled with the American nuns.
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stories they listened to on their cross-country journey. The purpose of the tour was to hold members of
Congress accountable for their votes on the 2017 Tax Bill and their attempts to repeal the Affordable Care Act. After 27 days on the road visiting 21 states and holding 54 events protesting President Donald Trump’s tax cut, the Nuns of the Bus’ Tax Justice Truth Tour to Mar-a-Lago finally reached its destination November 2, 2018.
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abortion and same-sex marriage. In a program the New York Times called a "spirited retort to the
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Matters". Although at first disappointed that the physical bus would be unable to travel, Meg Olson blogged her opinion that there were benefits to
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Washington D.C. It covered 2700 miles and nine states. The tour planned to stop at homeless shelters, food pantries, schools and health care facilities run by nuns to highlight their work with the nation's poor and disenfranchised"
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Philadelphia on Sept. 30 and concluding in San Francisco on Oct. 18. In an effort to reach out to other communities, the nuns will be joined this time by 15 multifaith and secular partners, including the
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Wisconsin to Philadelphia, the bus stopped at both the Democratic and Republican
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