WAUSAU, Wis., July 29 — A trio of Cabinet secretaries rolled by bus today across an ailing industrial swath of the upper Midwest, where they spread a message of sunshine about President Bush's economic policies to an edgy and often skeptical public.
On the first half of a two-day, six-city, 550-mile road trip, Treasury Secretary John W. Snow, Commerce Secretary Donald L. Evans and Labor Secretary Elaine L. Chao motored westward in a luxury coach with black leather sofas and a mirrored ceiling, soon to be used by the rock band Aerosmith, to promote the president's tax cuts.
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A protest bus followed the secretaries' bus throughout the day. Hired by Wisconsin Citizen Action, it contained some two dozen people who waved placards at each stop, from Milwaukee to Green Bay to Wausau, saying, "Read Bush's Lips: No New Jobs."
Ms. Chao took issue with the notion that people were upset with the president's economic policies, and told employees at the Harley-Davidson plant, "There are still a great many employers and companies who are looking for workers with the requisite skills."
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