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Dinner With Barack
June 21, 2007 7:17 AM
ABC News' Nik Bonovich Reports: Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., used his star power to attract donations as small as $5 and a chance to have dinner with the Senator turned Democratic presidential contender.
Thousands of Americans made donations and submitted their own stories about why they are supporting Obama and four people with diverse backgrounds from different corners of the country were selected to have dinner with Obama in Washington, DC in July, all expenses paid by the campaign.
"I am looking forward to sitting down with this group of four people who are representative of the millions of voices that have been drowned out by the special interests in Washington," said Senator Barack Obama. "This dinner is about hearing from the everyday experts on how we can work together to change the problems facing this country today."
Haile Rivera, Bronx, NY, works with the Food Bank of New York City and founded a non-profit organization that gets young people involved in civics. He is concerned about minorities, young people and education. Michael Griffith, is a miner in the town of Fernley, NV, near Reno who is troubled about his family’s rising health care costs. Margaret Thomas-Jordan from Gonzales, LA is also concerned about rising health care costs for herself and two children while she is a nursing student. Her husband was deployed in Iraq last month. Jennifer Lasko is a former Republican activist from south Florida. She is a firefighter and paramedic who is concerned about the war in Iraq.
June 21, 2007 in Political Radar | Permalink | Share | User Comments (3)
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The dinner sounds interesting, but what about the young-old that are trying to find jobs, and or go to school, we are voters also. After raising our children to be successful, can we be helped to obtain emloyment and new job training beside McDonald's? Our lives have been about our children and now we look around and see so much corruption in the political world, that we can't get in politics or we can't make our vote count, there is a population of people that desperately want more will there be help for the age group that is not quite established (45-55 yrs)? Do you need our vote?
Posted by: gladys | Jun 21, 2007 12:02:24 PM
This is nothing but campain show. He is a senator for a long time. Did he invited any ordinary citizen of this country in the past few years.
His polices and campain speeches are exiting and mesmarising the voters. But those are far from reality. Please stop these kind of mimics.
Posted by: Reddy Thummuru | Jun 21, 2007 9:10:07 PM
can anyone tell me if i can get a copy of Obama's speech at his dinner? I'm particularly interested in the comment he made re: he would "...send more troops to middle east...". The comment was also replayed on the daily show
Posted by: sarah27 | Sep 16, 2007 7:56:00 AM
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