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- USA Today has endorsed your effort. Keep the letters coming!!!!
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Published September 05, 2007 @ 09:57AM PT
Your effort is now officially endorsed by USA TODAY, NY Times, Washington Post and Time Inc. We need to keep the letters coming to show that there is grassroots interest in making this debate in New Orleans a reality. PLEASE TAKE 3-5 MINUTES TO COPY THE LINK BELOW AND SEND IT TO YOUR EMAIL LISTS!! http://friendsofneworleans.change.org/nonprofit_page/nonprofit_events/94511?event_id=14757 USA TODAY OPINION ARTICLE BELOW _____________________ Opinion A non-debatable choice September 5, 2007 Normally, the issue of where a presidential debate takes place matters little. Though the debates stir pride and fill hotel rooms in the host cities, their main purpose is to produce video images seen on television sets nationwide. But for the 2008 election, one city can make an unusually ... Read More
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- Our effort was featured in the Washington Post today!!!!
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Published August 29, 2007 @ 10:07AM PT
Debating in New OrleansA fitting backdrop for the candidates to discuss America's future A great article explaining why it's a good idea to bring one of the presidential debates to New Orleans was featured in today's Washington Post editorials, page A16. The Post reads, "New Orleans meets the minimum yet substantial standards for host cities -- adequate facilities, public support and the like. The Republican National Convention was held there in 1988. The Super Bowl has been played there nine times, most recently in 2002. Traditionally, the commission has chosen college campuses for the debates as a way of getting students intimately involved in the political process. Because Dillard, Loyola, Tulane and Xavier universities are still coping with Katrina-related damage, they have banded... Read More
