A few weeks ago the Americans for the Arts Action Fund released a Congressional Arts Report Card for 2007 to inform voters of how their elected officials have performed in promoting or demoting public funding for the arts. The full report can be found here. Highlights include:
- Support for the arts is growing
- Support for the arts is bi-partisan
- Members of the senate cultural caucus include Ted Kennedy, Joe Lieberman, Debbie Stabenow, and Hillary Clinton (No Obama nor McCain and no Carl Levin)
- Southeast Michigan reps’ grades in voting to support the arts who are up for re-election:
- Sander Levin (District 12): A
- Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick (District 13): B+
- Joe Knollenberg (District 9): B
- John Conyers (District 14): A
- John Dingell (District 15): A
- Thad McCotter (District 11): A
- Timothy Walberg (District 7): D
- NEA appropriations is at $144.7 million; it has grown steadily since 2001when it was $104.8 million, but made a huge leap in 2007
Curious to see what happens next year as we wade our way through the financial detritus. Still! Vote to support the arts! We need it now more than ever!
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