Our staff and volunteers have attended over 850 candidates events so far this year. We have even seen several candidates' position change after months of questioning. To find out where the candidates stand on our issues after seven months of peristent bird-dogging click here.

Topsy-Turvy Bus Tour illustrates misplaced budgets Priorities. To read more about the tour and our other mobile vehicle promotion click here

Former Assistant Secretary of Defense Dr. Lawrence Korb's 2007 report details $60 billion in annual wasteful spending by the Pentagon. Click here to Read

Priorities 2006 Annual Report.

Priorities Campaign Newsletter

Market Research shows majority of New Hampshire and Iowa residents support the Sensible Priorities Agenda. To see polling results Click Here or to see Sensible Priorities News Release Click Here

National poll shows dramatic increase in public support for cutting Pentagon budget and investing savings to meet human needs. Read more...

09/26/2007 -- Time V-22 Osprey: A Flying Shame

It's hard to imagine an American weapons program so fraught with problems that Dick Cheney would try repeatedly to cancel it — hard, that is, until you get to know the Osprey. As Defense Secretary under George H.W. Bush, Cheney tried four times to kill the Marine Corps's ungainly tilt-rotor aircraft. Four times he failed. Cheney found the arguments for the combat troop carrier unpersuasive and its problems irredeemable. "Given the risk we face from a military standpoint, given the areas where we think the priorities ought to be, the V-22 is not at the top of the list," he told a Senate committee in 1989. "It came out at the bottom of the list, and for that reason, I decided to terminate it." But the Osprey proved impossible to kill, thanks to lawmakers who rescued it from Cheney's ax time and again because of the home-district money that came with it — and to the irresistible notion that American engineers had found a way to improve on another great aviation breakthrough, the helicopter. Read more.

08/21/2007 -- Defense News Interest Group Targets Candidates for Specifics On Pentagon Budget

It's no accident that in recent weeks, several Democratic presidential candidates have discussed cutting funding for specific weapon systems--primarily the F-22 and the V- 22.

A campaign called Priorities!, led by Ben Cohen of Ben & Jerry's ice cream, has launched an aggressive "bird-dogging" effort to unearth where the candidates stand on specifics within the Pentagon budget. Read more.