Champmobile rolls through town

A trailer sponoring AARP’s organization, Divided We Fail, drove through Columbia today on a way to an event in Missouri Valley, Iowa.

The trailer, known as Champmobile, is set up with a stage which folds out of the back, satellite television, and wireless Internet, to inform the public of the organizations mission. One of the most noticeable features on the trailer is the mascot, Champ, which is part donkey and part elephant. Champ was created to represent “the bipartisanship needed to make substantial changes in health care and lifetime financial security,” a news release by the organization said.

Divided We Fail is a national effort led by AARP, the Business Roundtable, SEIU and NFIB “designed to engage the American people, elected officials and the business community to find broad-based, bi-partisan solutions to the most compelling domestic issues facing the nation-health care and the long-term financial security,” another release from March 28 said.

The trailer was parked in the Wal-Mart parking lot near Broadway and Highway 63 and pulled by Divded We Fail’s purple and white truck driven by Ray Snyder, a who is retired from the Air Force and is now voluntarily bringing the trailer from Florida to Iowa, he said.

“We’re having a lot of fun with this,” Snyder said.

The Champmobile was parked in the Wal-mart parking lot near Broadway and Highway 63 during its drive from Florida to an event in Iowa